Millennial Habits | Maegan Carberry

Thanks, Hamilton College, for Fun Media Workshop!

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ January 31, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I spent a fun weekend in Clinton, NY, with the student journalists at Hamilton College (named after my favorite founding father, the great Alexander. Or as the kiddos apparently call him: Al Ham.)
My lovely and dynamic friend Eric Kuhn, a social media strategist and senior at Hamilton, asked me a couple weeks ago to trek [...]

E&P: Lasting Civic Engagement Requires Connecting With Opinion Leaders

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ October 7, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Back home from my trip!
In today’s Editor & Publisher I discuss the panel I was on at Northwestern Friday (thx Ellen Shearer for the invite!):
“Given the inevitable fragmentation of the MSM market and the inundation of “breaking news” in our daily lives, the need for a reliable filter has never been more prevalent. In most [...]

E&P: Breaking Through to the Text Message Generation

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Today I address something I’ve been contemplating for weeks: the way teens and younger millennials relate to mobile media more than their older counterparts. Kudos to USC’s Karen North and Celebrifantasy.com’s Marc Mitchell for pitching in on the column:
From a business perspective, it appears to be a home run. Despite the collapse and resurrection of [...]

E&P: News Orgs Should Capitalize on Young Voter Enthusiasm

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A new study from Medill’s Media Management Center details recommendations to news organizations on how to harness enthusiasm for the presedential election into loyal young news consumers. I weigh in, and also talk with The Nation’s Ari Melber and Congressional Quarterly’s Andrew Satter.
“The thing that stood out most to me in the study was the [...]

Editor & Publisher: Can Entertainment and Social Media Be Considered News?

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I received an overwhelming “No!” response to last week’s column, so this week I challenged that assumption a bit deeper.
“The journalism-school side of my brain was inclined to agree with [the reader] because certainly one can defiine as, say, an A1 story about Iraq from the New York Times or a report on the recession [...]

E&P: The Pew Study Doesn’t Tell Whole Story on Young Readers

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ August 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

In today’s Editor & Publisher I argue that younger readers are spending less time on news sites because of social networking, mobile-dependency and an affinity for Colbert-style news.
“Defenders of the millennial generation’s civic engagement had some explaining to do last week after a recent Pew study indicated that a third of us don’t seek out [...]

E&P: Do Young Journos Have a Future? And Will It Be Dumb?

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ August 11, 2008 ⋅ One comment

This week’s edition is up. Remember, you can’t leave comments on the Editor & Publisher site yet, but you can leave them here or email me.
It’s baffling how many journalists, who comb through countless angles to produce a thoughtful story, are actually one-trick ponies. Of course, there’s a reason why Scarlett Johanssen’s CD of Tom [...]

Responses to -31- Debut

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ August 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

-31- began with a bang this week and I hope the conversation will continue as the project grows. As noted in this Poynter emedia tidbit, we won’t be able to have comments on the entries until the fall when Editor & Publisher adds some blogging functionality, but we’ll work around it until then.
I did receive [...]