My Dad just sent me an interesting op-ed piece written by Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times. Like many media-focused discussions of the past month, his article, The Daily Me, leads off by lamenting the downfall of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
But unlike other columns I’ve read on this topic, most of which ask what [...]

Perhaps a better term would be “bro-mance.” I am of course talking about the love affair between Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and US President Barack Obama. If you need proof, check out the article in the April edition of Toronto Life with the same title.
Both men seem to be long lost brothers separated at birth. [...]

Last week, I attended the speaker series put on by the DC Chapter of the American Marketing Association. The topic of the evening was “Building Your Personal Brand” and a panel of experts talked about how to brand yourself to achieve career success. One of the panelists, Mary Ellen Slayter, a journalist who wrote a [...]

Anyone who works for or closely with media outlets will be well aware of the onslaught of bad news about . . . the news business. As organizations cut their advertising budgets, newspapers, magazines and electronic media outlets suffer. It seems that every day there’s yet another story about a publisher or network cutting stuff, [...]