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We Are Not A "Lost Generation"

Today, as I waded through a stack of magazines to read a week’s worth of news and editorial, I was sad to see the cover of one of my favorite publications with a headline reading “The Lost Generation” and inside, a story warning about the “enduring harm” young people face in this economy.

“Bright, eager — and unwanted. While unemployment is ravaging just about every part of the global workforce, the most enduring harm is being done to young people who can’t grab onto the first rung of the career ladder.”

In the very same stack I’d collected for my mo…

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 Herald of Portland, Maine, will unlikely feel any pain, at least in the short term. But what Mr. Munjoy and countless others have done by starting blogs for the purpose…

Welcome To London

For the last two years, I’ve been part of Edelman’s Digital Public Affairs group in Washington, D.C. From that perch, my perspective has been understandably U.S.-centric. Recently, however, I joined Edelman’s London office, and I anticipated that my perspective would change.

It has, but not in the way that I expected.

In the months leading up to my move across the pond, I spent a lot time in London talking with colleagues, clients and others about the state of social media in the U.K. Universally, I was told that the U.K. is “behind” the U.S.

I don’t b…

Verifiable Accuracy And The Quest For Authenticity

The Dictionary program is perhaps the most useful (and overlooked) application that comes pre-installed on most Macintosh or Windows computers. For this trained scribe, the tool is more than just a way to look up words. It’s actually my muse.

As the Edelman Digital leadership team codified our positioning, I found myself turning to the Dictionary app over and over again for inspiration. Here’s a quick summary of how Oxford defines authentic:

When one dives head-first into each bullet, the second one — “based on facts, accurate or reliable” — reall…

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