Andrew Beaujon
Andrew Beaujon reports on the media for Poynter Online. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City Paper. He's the author of the 2006 book "Body Piercing Saved My Life," about Christian rock and evangelical Christian culture. He lives in Alexandria, Va., with his family. His email is abeaujon@poynter.org, his phone number is 703-594-1103, and he tweets @abeaujon.
Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
1:14 pm
Business Wired
The
requirements for a press release have changed since 2007, when Business Wire estimated a good press release
would run $5,000, Fred Godlash writes. "The biggest change, in just 6 years, is the focus from pitching to media outlets to making a press release that is written for everybody."
In today’s world the press release may be picked up by anyone that will write about your company – not just traditional media outlets, but bloggers, consumer groups, advocacy groups, social media users and more.
A press release today would take about "150 hours of collective work," including "Hiring staff for keyword optimization, content creation, research, analytics, multimedia, embed codes for tracking, and legal fees for regulatory compliance," Godlash writes. The total cost, he figures, would be up to $7,500.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
11:40 am
WHO-TV |
Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register
will move to new office space Friday. "We'll fill up about 2,100 boxes, and about midnight on Friday night, we'll head up to Capital Square down Locust Street, and we'll be there Saturday morning," Register Editor Rick Green tells WHO-TV's Andy Fales.
"It's been Iowa's epicenter of 'What's up,'" Fales says of the old digs, which the paper has occupied since 1918. "But now it's a testament to the 'Has-been.'"
Register political columnist Kathie Obradovich on Tuesday
posted photos of things she won't have room for in the new space: An "Oversized button from the Democrats’ 1992 Fall Fest with Bill Clinton"; some utensils that double as pens ("I hear we won’t be eating at our new desks," Obradovich writes).
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
10:42 am
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June 14, 2013
10:24 am
Amy Chozick looks at Bloomberg News, which has removed its reporters’ access to customer data on Bloomberg terminals, a function called UUID.
The ability to produce market-moving news had financial rewards for journalists: it was among the top metrics in determining reporters’ performance in 2012, according to a copy of the company evaluation obtained by The New York Times. The drive for market-moving news only added to the allure of tapping into the terminals’ troves of data, said several of the current and former reporters interviewed.
Peter K. Semler, who started Bloomberg’s Italy bureau in the 1990s, remembered using UUID to trace, for example, where the chief executive of Fiat had logged on. “If you see the guy in Chicago or Kansas you can guess what he’s doing,” said Mr. Semler, who left the company in 1995, and founded the financial news service Capitol Intelligence Group, which competes with Bloomberg.
“Reporters, we’re snoopy guys. We read everyone’s stuff,” Mr. Semler added. “If you had access to something you weren’t supposed to have, the first thing we’d do was go into that.”
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
8:58 am
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
6:41 am
Chicago Tribune |
Boston Magazine |
Bostinno
"Hang in there, Boston": That was the big-hearted message the Chicago Tribune's sports page sent with
an extraordinary tribute the day after the Boston Marathon bombings. "We are Chicago Celtics," the front page of April 16's sports section read in part. "We are Chicago Bruins."
Those good feelings have apparently evaporated with the Stanley Cup finals, in which the Chicago Blackhawks face the Boston Bruins. An image in a supplemental section Wednesday called "Hawkeytown" shows a hand tearing out the Bruins logo from that page with the legend "
Yeah, not right now we're not."
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Andrew Beaujon
June 13, 2013
4:23 pm
The New York Times |
ProPublica
Former New Yorker intern Matthew Leib and former W Magazine intern Lauren Ballinger
are suing Conde Nast, saying they weren't paid minimum wage. Their suit says Leib "was paid $300 to $500 for each summer he worked," Christine Haughney reports.
Ballinger tells Haughney she "was paid $12 a day to work in W’s accessories department."
She said that even one of the editors at W marveled how poor their work conditions were.
The editor said the job was reminiscent of Anne Hathaway’s job in “The Devil Wears Prada,” but worse, “because we don’t get any makeover in the end,” Ms. Ballinger said in the interview.
Leib and Ballinger asked for class action status for their suit, which like several other high-profile lawsuits regarding internships is being handled by the law firm Outten & Golden. The firm represented two interns who sued Fox Searchlight Pictures for their work on the 2010 film "The Black Swan"; a judge ruled Tuesday that
Fox Searchlight violated labor laws.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 13, 2013
2:25 pm
PBS MediaShift |
Student Press Law Center |
Report Schick
University of Virginia graduate Matthew Cameron wrote a thesis
suggesting ways university newspapers can survive and thrive, Dan Reimold writes. Student journalists who are paid "shouldn’t expect the same compensation they did in the past," Reimold says, nor should they fight a migration away from print.
Cameron was editor-in-chief at U.Va.'s Cavalier Daily, where “We found that people were becoming less interested in the print paper,” Cameron told Reimold.
“Then when we looked at our pick-up rates [the amount of copies grabbed from newsstands around campus], the numbers we found confirmed the papers weren’t being picked up as much as they used to.”
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Andrew Beaujon
June 13, 2013
11:34 am
Pew
39 percent of news nonprofits Pew surveyed "said they favor “some form of government subsidies” to help fund organizations like theirs," Jodi Enda writes. 30 percent opposed taking public money.
"In fact, the notion that the government would subsidize the news business is not new," Enda writes.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 13, 2013
10:57 am
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