Awesome social media tips and insights from @sree’s Social Media One-Night Stand

I’m one of the speakers at the Social Media One-Night Stand put on by the super busy, always generous and utterly unflappable Sree Sreenivasan at Columbia University. Sree is the chief digital officer at Columbia, along with being a prolific blogger, interviewer and all around social media expert. As part of my demo of Spundge at [...]

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Evolution of the ombudsman role?

WaPost’s publisher’s idea of an evolved ombudsman: no independence from newsroom, writing “from time to time.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-rea… — Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) March 1, 2013

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Grow the value, not the views, of your content

But if you’re working in media now you shouldn’t be worried about getting your website to hit 20 or 30 million uniques — if ad rates continue to fall, even websites of that size may not be economically viable. Instead, media companies should be doing everything they can can to improve the economic value of their work (which may not mean more pageviews).
Ryan McCarthy, writing at Reuters.com
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Cowards need not apply

If you are not asking yourself every couple of years how to once more scare yourself to death, then you are living something of the coward’s life. Ain’t no room for cowards in journalism at this moment in time.
Former New York Times sports editor Joe Sexton