Tag Archives: journalism

Who Wrote That News Story?

By Parker Mason | Published: January 11, 2010
A few days ago, a friend of mine mentioned that a news release she had written and issued to the media was re-posted on a news website by a journalist verbatim, without credit to my friend or her organization for writing the release, as if it were a story that person had written. My friend [...]
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Did Mainstream Media Win The Online Journalism War Against Bloggers?

By Parker Mason | Published: August 25, 2009
Like Christie Blatchford before him, David Olive is one newspaper reporter that really doesn’t understand blogs and the internet. In his recent article on TheStar.com (“Bloggers hitch wagons to the traditional media“) he argues that… you know what? I’m not really sure what his argument is. He seems to be critical of bloggers and seems to [...]
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The Twitter Journalist

By Parker Mason | Published: June 13, 2009
A few weeks ago, I told Jens and Heather that I didn’t want them to write any more posts about Twitter (“its been done to death”) so I’m breaking my own rule here. Over the weekend, I started thinking about how Twitter is becoming a primary way for people to get their information. Then I started [...]
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Dear Globe & Mail, (a letter to the newspaper industry)

By Parker Mason | Published: October 9, 2008
Dear Globe & Mail, I really like you. I don’t have a subscription to you because I’m normally too busy to read you every day, but I often buy a copy of you from the newstand in my building because it is simply easier (and more environmentally friendly) to share you with my coworkers, or [...]
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PR Grows and Journalism Shrinks

By Espen | Published: December 11, 2007
Last week, I had the pleasure of seeing Ira Basen, of CBC’s Spin Cycles radio series, deliver a lecture at Seneca College. His comments centered around the frustration that public relations practitioners experience with regards to PR public image; how it is defined by those who are least sympathetic to PR: journalists. CBC’s history of [...]
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