A couple of months ago I attended a discussion at the National Press Club titled “What Will We Tell Peoria?” during which a panel of journalists complained that people have become too stupid to realize how essential traditional methods of reporting are and how we’ll all be sorry when rigorous newsrooms close and papers die and only TMZ is left … Continue reading
During yesterday afternoon’s Econsultancy Roundtable at the Globe Theater, I was seated next to Alex Balfour, head of new media for London2012.com, the committee that is organizing the 2012 Summer Games in London. (See info about the London 2012 Open Weekend on July 24-26.) Midway through our session, the discussion turned to media coverage of the Olympics. I asked Alex … Continue reading
One of the highlights of the Traveling Geeks trip to the United Kingdom this week came Tuesday night when the Guardian held its first-ever podcast in front of a live audience for its Media Live program. The panel — tech blogger Robert Scoble, Sarah Lacy, blogger at TechCrunch, columnist at BusinessWeek and co-host of Tech Ticker on Yahoo!, myself, BBC … Continue reading
Regular readers know that Socialmedia.biz covers not just social media but also citizen media — and it’s all melding together anyway into one giant conversational media ecosystem, right? So I was gladdened to hear that Google and YouTube have taken another tentative step forward into the realm of citizen journalism with Monday’s launch of the YouTube Reporters’ Center. Above is … Continue reading
NBC News’ Ann Curry on Twitter from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Ann Curry, news anchor of NBC’s “Today” show, spoke animatedly at the 140 Character Conference in New York last Monday about the importance of news and journalism as a public service rather than a business and the growing impact of social media services like Twitter. I caught up with … Continue reading
How LA Weekly uses social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 7-minute interview with the utterly charming, thoughtful and geekworthy Alexia Tsotsis, the tech and business reporter for the LA Weekly newspaper. The bangin’, off-the-hook tech columnist talks about how how the LA tech scene differs from the scene in Silicon Valley: In Los Angeles, it’s mostly about … Continue reading
