I had the chance Thursday to interview John McLoughlin, reporter and managing editor at WTEN, for an article I wrote about his resigning from the network after 39 years. It's not very often I have someone with his reputation and experience on the phone at full attention, so I took the opportunity to ask him about his career and the journalism industry. Below are some of the quotes that didn't make it in the story I wrote for The Record.
I never really used to be a podcast person — I always preferred listening to music and found the talking distracting, especially if I was working on something else at the time (and who has time to just sit around and listen to something? I’m all about multitasking). Maybe my boyfriend’s talk radio listening habits are rubbing off on me, because lately I’ve developed a habit of listening to various media-related podcasts while going through my Google News Alerts in the morning. I like the Morning Media Menu series from MediaBistro, and at 15 minutes, they’re easy to digest. This morning for the first time I checked out the Rebooting the News podcast series with Jay Rosen and Dave Winer. I started following @jayrosen_nyu a little while ago after he tweeted about Journal Register Company (JRC, my future employer) CEO John Paton’s blog covering the JRC overhaul, and Rosen...
I'm obviously biased, but editors at small schools/newspapers often have to be well-rounded, resourceful and willing to take the initiative to make things happen.
If I’ve learned anything (and I hope that I have) from reading blogs, goofing around on Twitter and attending the Social Media Breakfast – Tech Valley events, it’s that social media can be a rocket launcher for businesses, organizations and individuals. However, while social media can definitely be a useful tool for a reporter, the implications of a social media presence for journalists and news organizations are still not entirely clear. The release of the Social Media and Blogging Guidelines today by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) is an effort to help those in the news media protect themselves against some of the pitfalls of social media. The guidelines focus on fairness, privacy and transparency and stress that when it comes to social media, nothing is private and journalists aren’t allowed to express personal opinions online — unless they want to open themselves up to complaints and...
