You Think Chris Christie’s Beach Photos Were Great? Just Wait Until Drone Journalism Really Takes Off
From Poynter: By now, you’ve probably seen the pictures: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, surrounded by his family and friends, sitting on a public beach that had been closed to the public amidst a state government shutdown. In a write-up for the (Newark, New Jersey) Star-Ledger, which published the photos, photographer Andrew Mills described how […]
Q&A: NPR’s Audie Cornish on the Intimacy of Interviewing
From Poynter: A great interview is one of the journalist’s most powerful tools. It can be informative, entertaining, thoughtful. Here, an interview with NPR’s Audie Cornish Jesse Thorn: You have worked at NPR for like 95 percent of your professional career. Is there an NPR way of doing things, do you think? Audie Cornish: There definitely is. And, […]
When Social Media Bites Back
[By Nora Jacobs, Hennes Communications] Indiana Republicans have learned that social media is not as easy as it sometimes looks. We suspect the individual who came up with the idea of generating support for healthcare reform by soliciting criticism of Obamacare on Facebook has spent some time in the woodshed as a result of this […]
The Bottomless News Hole and You
[By Howard Fencl, Hennes Communications] It’s everywhere. You check your Twitter feed. Read a news website or the daily paper. Turn on Nightly News or NPR. It’s an unrelenting and punishing tidal wave of political news pounding us over and over again. The slightest new wrinkle in a political drama, the smallest blip on Wall […]