On the Road AgainIn a few hours I’ll be wheels up from Joint Base Andrews on a chartered 747 bound for Asia.  I’ll be accompanied by my colleagues and contemporaries from the worlds of broadcast, print, and online journalism.  We’ll...
Topics: APEC, big media, Jim Long, journalism, mainstream media, TV news, Uncategorized, White House Press

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With Twitter’s recent roll-out of Lists functionality, there’s been a lot of division over their utility, measure of influence, and whether they simply serve as self-referential ego strokes for the technorati establishment.  OK, I admit I...
Topics: branding, echo chamber, fishbowl, journalism, social media, Twitter, Twitter Lists, Uncategorized

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Politico, Newschannel 8, and WJLA TV Parent company, Allbritton Communications, has announced that it is jumping into local media here in the Washington DC metro area. Planned for launch next spring, the yet unnamed site hopes to leverage social web...
Topics: big media, disruptive media, hyperlocal, Jim Brady, local media, local news, mobile, newspapers, Politco, Uncategorized

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Earlier this month I had the opportunity to speak at the Inbound Marketing Summit in Foxborough, Massachusetts.  (video of the presentation at the end of this post)   It was back in August, in a cramped, dimly lit Jimmy Seas restaurant on...
Topics: branding, business, disruptive media, mainstream media, marketing, PR, presentation, social media, tradtional media, Twitter, video

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Yesterday I had the opportunity to chat with the folks at TV Newser on their podast Morning Media Menu, as a preview of my panel participation at today’s TV Newser Summit in New York City.  We covered a wide range of topics, from how I began...
Topics: Jim Long, newmediajim, social media, TV news, Twitter

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