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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 [...]

Post-Convention Wrap Up: Our Responsibility to Help Barack Achieve His Vision

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ August 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

When I watched Obama’s keynote address at the 2004 convention from my then-apartment in Chicago, tears streaming down my face because someone had finally articulated what it should mean to be an American citizen, like everyone else I thought: “This guy should be President.” To be sitting four years later at his electrifying acceptance speech [...]

Hybrid Media Love Fest at HuffPost Luncheon

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ August 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A cast of entertainment, media and political heavyweights discussed the role of new media in the 2008 election this afternoon. Moderated by Charlie Rose, the lineup included Rahm Emanuel, George Stephanopoulos, WaPost’s Katharine Weymouth, Will.i.am, YouTube’s Chad Hurley and the guy who plays Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live.
While a lot of the usual arguments [...]

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 [...]

Today’s E&P: Young Journos and The Social Contract 2.0

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

Forgive my lengthy absence; I was out of town at my ten year high school reunion!
In this week’s Editor & Publisher column I discuss the murky intersection of journalism with activist bloggers and social networks.
For better or worse, journalism is inherently fused with technological evolution and this alignment will have redefining implications for young journalists. [...]

The Nature of ‘The Beast’

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ August 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I started reading Vanity Fair because Brad Pitt was wearing a soaked white shirt as he emerged from a Malibu beach on the cover, thus it was in the context of this undignified marketing ploy that I came to be enamored with the idea of Tina Brown and Graydon Carter and their sexy politics. (I [...]

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 [...]

Lessons from Iowa: How to Win the People, Then the Press

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ July 31, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Thx HuffPost: “Local Papers: Obama Dominating Ground Game”
John McCain once famously proclaimed that the media was his “base,” and as last week’s W&W guest and Straight Talk Express veteran, Seattle PI cartoonist David Horsey, pointed out: Many members of the media have long relationships with and like McCain better than Obama.
This scenario isn’t a [...]