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Confessions Of A Communicator

On behalf of myself as a professional communicator, I want to apologize.

If you are a company, I’ve misled you. If you are a consumer, I’ve used you. And as much as I’d like to change the future, there may be no turning back.

Somehow I managed to take the most engaging and exciting advancements in communications since Gutenberg and turn them into something cold. I took what used to be called “stories” and changed them into “content.” I used technology to communicate, and in doing so turned communication into something technological – not “read”…

Making The Case For Free

The future of newspapers may well be in Colorado, once home to the late “gonzo journalism” provocateur Hunter S. Thomson and today home to no less that 12 free dailies. All of these papers are very local, and perhaps more importantly, successful. This trend is even more interesting in light of tough times at the “real” state papers like the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post.

This isn’t a Colorado-only phenomenon. Palo Alto, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley and arguably Ground…

Making Newspapers Matter: The Tragic Value Of Content

This post was originally published in Below the Fold, Gary Goldhammer’s personal blog.

“Hey Gary: After a year of unanswered e-mails to the editor of the Portland Press Herald pleading for better local reporting and editing … I started a blog a month ago…” T.C. Munjoy
One more blog in the world is not the end of traditional journalism. Even the target of Mr. Munjoy’s citizen reporting, the Press…