New survey out on how journalists use Twitter, Facebook and social networks. But conventional PR sources far outweighed the use of social media for story ideas, with 62 per cent of journalists sourcing stories from PR agences and 59 per...

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The Ventura County Star has started limiting comments to just a handful of stories a day.  Editor Joe Howry wrote a column about what the newspaper is doing. He wrote: If, as they say, the road to Hell is paved...

From the Chattanooga Times Free Press: Last Thursday, one of our reporters, Kate Harrison, was following volunteers cleaning up debris in the heavily damaged Apison area when she was confronted by three veteran, high-ranking public officials who ordered her to...

The Carnival of Journalism (#Jcarn) this month takes on the Big F, Failure. There were rules about what you could write about and while not a rule abider at all times, the ones laid out by David Cohn seemed reasonable...

Tom Humphrey has the news about the death of retired UPI Tennessee bureau chief and Tennessean reporter Duren Cheek. Cheek’s bio on his Facebook page says: Spent most of my life in the news business. Started with UPI before graduating...

Consider that according to a study conducted by GoodMobilePhones, people don’t know 20 percent of their Facebook friends. Or that USA Today recently reported that social media users are “grappling with overload.” Finally, the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, my employer’s...

Learn More about Mobile Tagging at Microsoft Tag. Saw this on Alltop’s Holy Kaw blog. This is a great infographic, but why did Microsoft come up with its own tag system? Seems like just as QR codes are beginning to...

Bill Tallent, CEO of Mercury Intermedia, which developed the iPad app of USA Today and apps for other media companies, and Rex Hammock, founder of Hammock Inc. and author of the popular RexBlog, do some Q&A at “The Mobile Migration...