One of the things my advertising research professor repeatedly emphasized throughout the class was that brand planners (those people that figure out what consumers want and how they rationalize their buying habits) have to be chameleons. By this, she meant that brand planners must be able to get along with people from all walks of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
Be a chameleon
Posted in Romania Trip, tagged brand planner, journalism, photojournalist on 02/25/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The two of us watch the world cave in
Posted in Romania Trip, tagged A.H. Belo Corp, Belo Corp, flip camera, journalism, journalism industry, Romania, The Dallas Morning News on 02/19/2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m going to build on my earlier post that made the oh so bold and unprecedented claim that the traditional world of journalism is crumbling. I definitely still stand by that, but today I spent the morning and afternoon wandering the (pretty empty) halls of the Belo building downtown, listening to lectures, partaking in panel [...]
if i write about you, will you read this?
Posted in Romania Trip, Uncategorized, tagged journalism, Romania on 02/18/2009 | 5 Comments »
Good news or bad news first? Here’s the bad news: the old model of journalism is, well, sort of crumbling. Good news: We’re figuring out how to adapt. (And by ‘we’ I mean Lindsey and myself. I’m not exactly sure what the rest of the journalism world is doing). As journalism nerds, Lindsey and I [...]
This is turning into quite the (online) adventure
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged journalism, Twitter on 02/16/2009 | 9 Comments »
I joined Twitter last night. To those of you already on it, you’re saying, “Glad you finally joined the crowd.” To those of you who know what it is and refuse to create an account, you’re thinking, “Why would you do that?” And those of you who have never heard of Twitter are going, “What [...]
