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The Shift to New Media Cannot Be Gradual

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Reality, of course, is brutally different. More than a third of them had no company training at all in the past year, and two-thirds found what training was offered to be inadequate. The problem, of course, is that for most publishers, the bulk of their money is still coming from print. Editors, a word to the wise.

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Can Content Save Publishers? Only If They Wake Up

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In an article on Min Online this week, Judy Franks of The Marketing Democracy suggests that traditional media companies are faltering because they don’t value content. Content, of course. Though at first it might seem odd to say that businesses built on content don’t value it, she has a point. In theory, publishers still do.

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Be Yourself. Just Not Your Real Self: Scripps’ Muddled Social Media Policy

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It’s reasonable for a company to say, “Look, if you tweet using one of our corporate or branded Twitter accounts, remember you’re speaking for us too.” What that means, of course, is they have to limit what their staff can think of as “personal” on their personal Twitter accounts. In effect, it drains the life out of both.

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Journalists, Content Marketing, and Tough Questions

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The trick, of course, is to challenge your brand and your audience in a positive and constructive way—as good journalists have learned to do. As companies like Nestle and Dell have learned, educated buyers empowered by social media will ask tough questions. But markets are now conversations among equals.

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Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial?

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As he goes on to say, the “idea that a company—as a brand and marketer—can be an expert content creator and reach an audience by disintermediating reporters is confusing, threatening and scary to an entire profession that had its way for a century.”. But of course Forbes is in DVorkin’s view anything but a traditional publication.

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Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial?

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As he goes on to say, the “idea that a company—as a brand and marketer—can be an expert content creator and reach an audience by disintermediating reporters is confusing, threatening and scary to an entire profession that had its way for a century.”. But of course Forbes is in DVorkin’s view anything but a traditional publication.

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Journalism, Professionalism, and the Turing Test

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Robot reporters are cornering the market on facts, as companies like Narrative Science and Automated Insights perfect the science of teaching software to turn data into news stories. I don’t know her, of course, but I’d guess the problem isn’t that she was being human or that she was being too personal. I think not.

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