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SPJ considers overdue update to Code of Ethics 26 Aug 2013 | 09:42 pm
I’m pleased that the Society of Professional Journalists is considering an update to its Code of Ethics. The SPJ Code of Ethics has guided journalists for decades, but hasn’t been updated since 1996....
What historic stories are we missing today? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
Robert G. Kaiser told a humbling story in the Washington Post Sunday: The Post nearly ignored Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech and his historic “I have a dream …” theme in its coverage of the march on ...
Advice for editors from Teresa Schmedding: Adapt leadership style to your staff and your challenges 26 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Teresa Schmedding, photo linked from dailyherald.com This guest post by Teresa Schmedding continues a series on advice for new top editors in Digital First Media newsrooms. Effective leadership i...
Workshops on leadership and working and thinking Digital First 25 Aug 2013 | 08:04 pm
I’ll be leading two workshops today for the Excellence in Journalism conference in Anaheim. First I’ll be leading Kindling the Flame, a leadership workshop that used to be my most popular workshop be...
Workshops on engagement, attribution and social media 23 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
I have been leading workshops this week at Digital First newsrooms in the Los Angeles area. The workshop varies in each newsroom, depending on questions and issues the journalists raise. Here are some...
A newspaper ‘war’ is exciting, but Long Beach is hardly the first city since World War II with a new newspaper 21 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
I like competition in the news business. I competed fiercely with the Des Moines Tribune when I worked at the Des Moines Register and with the Kansas City Star when I worked at the Kansas City Times,...
Advice for editors: Work and hire to reflect your community’s diversity 15 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
This continues a series on advice for new top editors in Digital First Media newsrooms. A busy editor might be tempted to dismiss diversity as a buzzword or a lofty goal you don’t have time for. You ...
Why would you be a good Digital First newsroom leader? 14 Aug 2013 | 05:37 pm
I’m helping my Digital First colleagues recruit for several newsroom leadership positions. I also know that hundreds of journalists — including, I suspect, some strong leaders — have recently lost th...
Washington Post sale brings a true disruptor to the newspaper business 6 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
In my years discussing disruptive innovation while teaching Newspaper Next concepts, I often said that newspapers’ advertising/circulation blinders kept us from developing a digital marketplace such a...
The Internet giveth and the Internet taketh away 5 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
I got a chuckle (OK, and a bit of an ego boost) last week when a student blogger likened meeting me to meeting Brad Pitt. A louder chuckle (and not quite the ego boost) when I saw the photo accompanyi...
