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A brand of journalist

Jul 29, 2010 7:19am

Below are a few links I pulled together for a pizza lunch (and I wonder why so many accepted the calendar invite) at the News Sentinel today on "Brand Me" for journalists.Personal branding and the use of Social Media networks......

What the Tennessee candidates for governor are saying on Twitter

Jul 28, 2010 4:40am

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Just how did Benton's Bacon become a craze?

Jul 25, 2010 8:57am

Benton's Bacon has gone totally viral in the last couple of years.Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams, the Madisonville, Tenn., maker of hams and bacon has become something of a food legend in the Internet age. At a recent checkup, my......

It was news, but was it working?

Jul 23, 2010 5:42am

Long-time Knoxville radio news broadcaster Dave Foulk has built up 4,229 friends on his Facebook page. Maybe Foulk personally knows over 4,000 people and counts them as friends; I kind of doubt it. They were there for another reason.They had......

Oh, no, not again Delta

Jul 21, 2010 10:19am

Image of Kevin SlimpKnoxville-based newspaper consultant Kevin Slimp's luck with Delta Air Lines continues to be a muddled mess of delays and cancellations.A column Slimp wrote on a June trip to and from hell and the resulting customer service torture......

Innovation winners

Jul 19, 2010 6:52pm

Congrats to the Knight-Batten Innovation Award winners! All 30 ideas look exceptional.......

The story of a national park in video

Jul 19, 2010 4:14pm

We're seeing what we can do with YouTube Direct. Anybody else using it? Thoughts about it?Here's a little more about what we are doing in trying to gather videos of and about the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We have......

Quotable: Treat audiences as customers would be novel

Jul 17, 2010 5:04pm

"If we don't start treating our audiences as customers, they will stop treating us as a brand they want to consume." -- Raju Narisetti, the managing editor who oversees The Washington Post website.......

Hey, Michael Moore, I'm calling you out

Jul 10, 2010 4:22pm

Michael Moore is an artistic and intellectual thief.Yes, Michael Moore, the American filmmaker, author, political commentator and self-professed liberal who enjoys the skewering the ethical transgressions of corporate organizations.Yes, Michael Moore of the documentary films Roger and Me, Bowling for......

Public TV network lowers its journalism shield

Jul 7, 2010 6:39am

Troubling "Shield Law" incident in North Carolina as a legislative committee subpoenas raw, unaired footage from the state-funded UNC-TV public television network about a story involving the environmental record of aluminum giant Alcoa and its efforts to get re-licensed for......

And then there were fireworks

Jul 4, 2010 2:12pm

These are a few years ago, but enjoy on the Fourth!......

Just ask: "What would Ben Franklin do?"

Jul 4, 2010 12:00pm

.bbpBox{background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/54087821/bg.jpg) #deeafd;padding:20px;}Journal Register declares independence from "old way of thinking about how we do business." http://bit.ly/duu4J4Sun Jul 04 16:15:22 via TweetDeckJim MacMillanJimMacMillan I saw Journal Register CEO John Paton talk about this in Las Vegas at the Editor &......

Army journalist dies in combat in Afghanistan

Jul 4, 2010 10:36am

The first Army Journalist killed in combat since 9/11 died June 18 when he was struck by improvised explosive device while on patrol near Kandahar. See AP report.Photo: James P. Hunter, first Army journalist killed in combat since 9/11. AP......

More disruptive than anything ever seen

Jul 2, 2010 8:00pm

"The internet is the most disruptive technology in history, even more than something like electricity, because it replaces scarcity with abundance, so that any business built on scarcity is completely upturned as it arrives there, You have to plan your......