Monthly Archive for October, 2008

Will advertising plunge kill newspapers in the U.S?

Published
by
Robb Montgomery
on October 22, 2008
in Blog
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Advertising plunge will kill newspapers and there won’t be a bailout.
That’s the headline of a blogger and former journalist I really admire, Kiyoshi Martinez.

Kiyoshi is a reformed newspaper and online journalist who now works as Illinois Senate Republicans Staffer for the State of Illinois.
In addition to his blog, Martinez also created the popular sites for laid off journalists at AngryJournalist.com and Journalism.me.

I would have responded in comments to his blog - but I am not a fan of Wordpress comment registration. There are tools I like better to manage comments on the WP platform, but I digress.

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Schedule: Master Classes for Romanian Editors-in-Chief

Published
by
Robb Montgomery
on October 1, 2008
in Blog, Default and Previous workshops
. 0 Comments

I am flying to Bucharest today at the invitation of the World Editors Forum to teach two Master Classes at the Executive Media Management Institute.

I really like the structure of these discussions - 20 minute presentation and 70 minute conversation, that’s a great format for an executive audience and my favorite style of teaching.
See the schedule below:
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