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2009 Love: Thanks Peeps!

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ December 29, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

This week I’m wrapping up one of the most adventurous, romantic, ambitious (yet incredibly challenging) years in my life, and I’m happy to be at home in Washington, DC, with my best friend from college Mr. Nate Moore, who has been an excellent house guest. For all the action that characterized the year’s first nine [...]

MSM vs Digital in 2009 with NYT’s Brian Stelter

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ December 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

On today’s Wilshire & Washington, we ask the question: Who’s on top, the MSM or Digital Media? Who’s leading the discussion, why, and is it a good thing? To help us navigate this tricky landscape, we’ve got New York Times reporter Brian Stelter with us; Stelter covers television and digital media, and spent over three [...]

Please Join Me to Celebrate Post-Election Millennial Activism

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ October 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m hosting an event in conjunction with Living Liberally and Net Movement Politics, and I hope you can join me.
It’s been a year since President Obama engaged a new generation of Americans in his historic non-traditional campaign, but what are those fearless young leaders doing now? We’re gathering some of them together to discuss how [...]

Peace Out, New York

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Everyone has an alternate fantasy life, in which she packs up and flees her surroundings to live the secret, unfulfilled destiny of her dreams. Whether fantasizing about skyscrapers while at the beach in San Diego as a girl, or from my reporter’s cubicle at the Chicago Tribune after college ended, or while driving the spiraling [...]

Live From the “What Would Google Do?” Book Party

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ February 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Popped by the Daylife HQ this evening to listen to Jeff Jarvis give his much-hyped (or hated) Google schpeel and rather enjoyed myself. The q-and-a crowd had lots of disdain for what they perceived to be (if not “evil”) non-transparent behavior on the part of the search juggernaut. It’s a fair criticism, but Jarvis is [...]

Clay Shirky on Newspapers and Glaciers

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ December 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m getting increasingly irritated by the hysteria surrounding the newspaper industry. Clay Shirky, author of one of my new media bibles, “Here Comes Everybody,” nails it on Boing Boing.
“And once that became obvious, we said so, over and over again, all the time. We said it in public, we said it in private. We said [...]

Politico: Reporters Have No Access on Campaign Trail

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Politico has an interesting story today on how news orgs are apparently wasting big bucks traveling with Obama and McCain to limited results:
“Not only do the reporters have little interaction with the candidates, but increasingly they are having little impact on the broad campaign narratives and daily story lines that supply most voters with their [...]

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 [...]