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Is the Term Journalist Passé As Writers Become Curators of Content?
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I wrote a version of the following post several years ago when I heard a professor at the prestigious Journalism School of Columbia University say he didn’t know what journalism would look like in five years. Fast forward to the present.
The professor’s — and my predictions — about the future of journalism and the role of the publicist are coming true. Read More→
In Designing a Website for Mobile Viewing Where is “Above the Fold?”
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Like many former readers of print newspapers and magazines, I now read these publications online. It’s quite satisfying when using my 21” iMac desk computer but increasingly I find myself reading publications on my mobile phone, along with millions of other people.
Even more people are catching the news on tablets, which are actually shrinking in size, too.
Who Started That Rule?
So how about the “rule” that the most important information on any website should be above the fold? Read More→
Digital Media Survey Discloses Journalists Want More Images and Videos
Posted by: | CommentsThere is a disconnect between the content that journalists and bloggers want and companies are giving them, according to a survey by PRESSfeed, advisers on social media newsrooms.
The survey of 130 PR professionals, an unspecified number of journalists, and an analysis of 300 corporate news rooms disclosed that:
- 45% of PR people surveyed said visual elements of a news story are not important at all to journalists. 39% said they felt it was not necessary to add images, videos or graphics to a news release. 80% of journalists polled say it is important or very important to have access to photos and visual images.
- 76% of editors at media websites prefer to receive their videos with an embed code so that is quick and easy to post the video on the site. Only 28% of corporate news rooms offer embed codes with visuals.
- Only 14% of 500 press releases recently posted on four PR wire services were optimized for search engines.
The survey cited the Pew State of the News Media 2012 Report that search was the one factor that most impacted the news media in the last decade. 98% of journalists start a story by doing an online search of the topic they’ve been assigned to write about.
This isn’t surprising to me as a blogger. Finding background information before the Internet was so much more difficult when I was a reporter for a business publication. How fortunate we are today to be able to source whatever we need from the web.
As a member of the blogging community that many companies are targeting, I was quite surprised at these findings. I use embed code all the time from YouTube and SlideShare. I wonder why companies don’t feel it’s necessary to offer embed code in their social newsrooms. Do you have any idea why they don’t?
There are many other nuggets of useful information in this study, which you can find in the slide show below and in the PDF file that summarizes the study results in narrative form. PRESSfeed-2012-Online-Newsroom-Survey
New York Times Editor Says Let Employees Use Social Media
Posted by: | CommentsAdding to my argument in last week’s post 6 Steps to Empower Your Employees as Brand Ambassadors, David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times, explains the importance of allowing your employees access to social media while at work.
He is interviewed in this Ragan.com video entitled “Half of U.S. businesses block social media. What’s the point?”
