Free Media Database for UK Media
Here’s another free online database of journalists, covering the UK media: journalisted.com
It’s pretty simple: just go to that page, type in as much of the name as you know, and get a set of matches. For instance, here’s a link to a search for Smith.
And here’s a page for one of the journalists on the [...]
The Ugly Truth About Tiger Woods and All His Enablers
So it turns out that Tiger Woods has been a carousing, hard partying guy, both as a bachelor and as a married man. In essence, this doesn’t surprise me one bit — in fact, it makes a lot more sense than the partial stories that were coming out the first week about his “transgressions.” I [...]
Death of E&P is a milestone worth noting
Neilsen announced yesterday that it was shuttering Editor & Publisher, the iconic newspaper industry trade magazine that has chronicled the newspaper business for 108 years.
I’d been wondering about the relevance of E&P in past months, so after getting over the initial shock, this decision comes as no surprise. E&P played an essential role in the [...]
Tiger Woods Caught With His Pants Down, But He Keeps His Guard Up
Uh-oh. It turns out that where there was Thanksgiving Day smoke, there was definitely fire. Tiger Woods has been caught red-handed being a philandering adulterer. Goodbye pristine reputation, maybe goodbye marriage.
But is it goodbye golf game and goodbye endorsements? No and probably not.
Woods issued another statement today, this time saying he “let my family down [...]
“Who Will Pay the Messenger” Is Indeed the Question
I am not a believer that print media is all but dead. But I am a believer that the highest profile print media, namely big city newspapers, are, in fact, all but dead (with one notable exception, the New York Times).
This is not, as many assume, simply because the Internet came along and took away [...]
Tiger Woods Takes the Right Media Relations Tack
As the Tiger Woods car accident story was becoming known and starting to be covered in the media, my other half passed along an article talking about “what Tiger should do,” and suggesting that I weigh in. In the moment, I have to say that I had a hard time forming a strategy, partly due [...]
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Acts Like a Complete Jerk in a Media Interview
I’m always on the lookout for good on-camera examples of spokespeople doing a terrible job. It’s a great teaching tool — seriously. So if you’ve got any examples, by all means forward them to me.
Playboy SF Mayor Gavin Newsom has made a dandy contribution to the archive with his interview on CBS 5 here in [...]
Good Riddance, Lou Dobbs
Buh-bye Lou: The bombastic and misguided Lou Dobbs has finally given up his perch on CNN and quit the network, more than a year before the end of his contract. For now, he will spew his anti-immigration, white-privileged perspective on his national radio show. I haven’t looked up the odds, but if I were a [...]
What did you do with your summer?
In a sign of things surely to come, a 29-year-old writer has just landed a sitcom deal with CBS to make a show out of his Twitter feed, ShitMyDadSays.
This is not April Fools, and this is not a joke. The Tweeter in question, Justin Halpern, had already signed a book deal with HarperCollins. He’s got [...]