Tom Peters has been telling businesses, industries and organizations about innovation and evolution for more than 25 years. I came across a PDF deck on my hard drive that I downloaded a few years back and found it just as insightful and instructive today as it was the first time I encountered it. A couple […]
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January 12th, 2009
Tom Peters: Before you get new thoughts in your head, you have to get old ones out
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December 29th, 2008
Newspaper web sites heading in the right direction
But they need to move faster. Still, the findings of a recent Bivings Group report analyzing the web sites from the top 100 U.S. newspapers (by ABC ranking) are encouraging. Among the highlights: • 58% of newspaper sites now accept some form of user generated content, although it’s mostly just photos. Only 15 percent accept […]
December 16th, 2008
Should colleges still teach ‘print’ journalism?
With the Detroit shock playing out on Twitter and various blogs, one question I haven’t seen is whether college journalism programs should still concentrate on print journalism. And further, should there still be a college newspaper? Since cutting the delivery days for a metro newspaper is a cost-reducing move that many other newspapers will likely […]
December 9th, 2008
Opinion in journalists’ blogs? It’s time
I asked the Latin American journalists who I’m working with on a distance-learning course whether journalists should be allowed to write with opinion on their blogs, even if the blog is hosted by their employing news organization. More than three dozen responded and almost all said yes. It’s a matter of testing long-held conventions that […]
November 21st, 2008
Learning by teaching, Latin American style
I started teaching a distance learning course through the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas this week. There are 70 students participating from Brazil, Argentina and many other places in Latin America. The students are passionate about journalism and hungry to learn how to make the most of this new digital landscape. It’s interesting […]
November 3rd, 2008
It’s a new day
The future is now. I start my new “career” in earnest today, having said my farewell to The News Tribune on Friday. It was the best job I’ve ever had, working with the best people I’ve ever worked with. So the decision to leave was not an easy one. I am indebted to the people […]
October 29th, 2008
Treat your readers like a tribe and lead them
Cluetrain told us that markets are conversations. Now Seth Godin tells us those conversations need leaders, that people want to become part of the “tribe.” How does this apply to journalism? Practicing “news as a conversation instead of a lecture” was the first step. The next step is to lead the conversation. In Godin’s new […]
October 23rd, 2008
Tomorrow’s journalism will be whatever you make it
I’m at Western Washington University this week as a visiting professor, speaking to a number of classes in the communications school on the concepts of Journalism 2.0. The core message I’m trying to deliver: tomorrow’s journalism will be whatever you make it. Sure, jobs at traditional news organizations are disappearing. But opportunities to influence, inform […]
October 14th, 2008
Market forces drive smart content decisions
Recently I was part of a strategic content planning session for a traditional newsroom. Given that the newspaper had recently been through a couple rounds of buyouts and layoffs, like most newspapers, I figured there would be some serious reinvention occurring in this brainstorming meeting. Boy, was I wrong. The editors, reporters and visual journalists […]
October 3rd, 2008
Into the void: newspaper layoffs may create new competition
Previously I suggested that most local news organizations are not nearly local enough, especially considering the ample opportunity provided by the web. So is that opportunity lost? Not yet, but it’s pretty easy to see how it could be. LostRemote shows us how hyperlocal blogs are building audience and building a sustainable business in Seattle. […]
