For the first time since 1980, the Federal Trade Commission amended its regulations to ensure celebrities or anyone promoting a product online fully disclose the results a consumer can expect to find. If violated, bloggers face an $11,000 fine per infraction. You can read the article on PaidContent.org here…….
Day: October 5, 2009
Study finds media fell short on economic reporting
A new study by the Pew Research Center shows that journalists largely missed the story on the financial hardships of ordinary people during the economic crisis that began last fall. The media content analysis also showed that when the stock market rebounded, news coverage notably subsided. You can read about the Pew Center's new study on the the New York Times' website here…….
Two Newspaper Models: Microlocal success, large market challenges
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The latest evidence of financial viability of microlocal news comes from an article in the Wall Street Journal describing the Register-Star, a successful newspaper in Hudson, a town in Columbia County, New York. The formula is a familiar one: "a rich diet of local politics, education news, crime, school sports and people stories." And according to the Journal article, the Register-Star never relied on classified advertising as heavily as the major metro dailies, all of which have seen their classified ad revenue eviscerated by craigslist.com. But that's another blog; let's go back to the editorial side, to……
Concert & Conversation: Peter Buffett
In partnership with the USC Thornton School of Music and the USC Marshall School of Business, USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy presents a concert and conversation with Grammy Award-winning musician Peter Buffett. He has released 15 records and scored the memorable "Fire Dance" scene in the Oscar-winning film Dances With Wolves. He also composed the full score for 500 Nations, the eight-hour Emmy Award-winning CBS miniseries produced by actor, Kevin Costner. Son of legendary investor Warren Buffett, he intersperses his songs with personal anecdotes and offers candid look into "his upbringing, the lessons he's learned, and their……
Communication Leadership Open Forum: Bill Boyarsky and Tom Hollihan
Join Geoffrey Cowan, USC Annenberg Professor and director of the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy for a discussion on current events, including media coverage of the debate on health care reform and the history and future of the Los Angeles Times. Special guests include veteran editor and author Bill Boyarsky, author of the new book Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times and communication professor Tom Hollihan, author of Uncivil Wars: Political Campaigns in a Media Age. Book signing follows discussion. Lunch will be served. RSVP requested. To RSVP, click here. 12 noon. Annenberg Research Park's Kerckhoff Hall, 734……
Communication Leadership Open Forum: Peter Steinfels, religion columnist, The New York Times
Join David Westphal, CCLP senior fellow and USC Annenberg executive in residence, Geoffrey Cowan, USC University Professor and director of the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and Varun Soni, USC Dean of Religious Life, for a discussion on media, politics and religion. Special guest: Peter Steinfels, "Beliefs" columnist for the New York Times and co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture. His topic: A Catholic Approach to American Public Life. He writes "A review of different understandings of secularization suggests that the U.S., in fact, can be called a 'post-secular' society, preeminently and irreversibly secular in some……