The Media Drop

Chicago Defender executive editor Roland Martin publishes his ‘call to action’ for other black newspapers in the United States to prove the New York Times wrong that it can compete in the space - as the company announced it would do with a publication in Florida with the launch of the Gainesville Guardian.

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Customer service is always big, no matter what industry you’re in or how minor the Interaction may be. The Internet used to be somewhat poor, overall, at giving good customer service, but not any longer - or, I should say, the ability to give good service is no longer hard to grasp. Check out this […]

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The Associated Press reports Wednesday that the Los Angeles Times‘ editor, John Carroll, will retire by mid-August.

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Last week, Boston Sports Media’s David Scott came across the info that Boston University journalism professor Michael Gee had been fired for writing online about one of his students whom he apparently found attractive.

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The Washington Post’s Ariana Eunjung Cha writes about the citizens’ journalism effort surging across the U.S. (and other places across the globe) right now. Amusingly enough, at the center of the item is “Your Mom,” an entity put on by the Iowa-based Quad-City Times.

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The Rocky Mountain News picks up a Hollywood Reporter article by Paul Gough and Chris Marlowe about how cellphone photography and video has turned everyday people into citizen journalists, just as many blogs have been perceived to have done the same.

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In what has to be the best thing I’ve seen all week, the last half hour of my life has been spent watching a few episodes of This Spartan Life, a talk show done via the world of Halo 2 - yep, the video game. And this isn’t some “record the game then voice over […]

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On Wednesday, we should expect to see ABC, CBS and NBC all covering NASA’s launch of the space shuttle Discovery live, with their anchors at their desks in New York. Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Gough has much more detail on who will be on-air for each network, and for how long.

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Mississippi newspaper The Democrat has named Melissa Turner as news editor, and Muffet Lee McPhail as editor.

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The Cincinnati Post’s Rick Bird reports on an contest held by First Broadcasting, owner of two radio stations who have gone to a new format that is very similar to Infinity’s “Jack” format, to name a couple of their stations. Listeners can go to nameusandwin.com and enter to win $10,000 if their new name / […]

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