PR Start by Nick Lucido

A company producing an incredibly important product charges its users for that product? What?! Blasphemy!
Sure, the Internet is full of information. Most of it is free. Some of it is worthwhile. A very small fraction of it is of professional quality and full of intellectual insights. So while it’s easy to condemn the New [...]

Like many people, I’ve been reading a few articles here and there surrounding NBC’s decision to replace Conan O’Brien (or Coco, for those who are particularly close to his show). While Conan may not have been bringing in the ratings NBC was looking for, it appears the influence value Conan brings to the table is [...]

As if the ad industry hasn’t seen enough bad news lately, a new study found that two-thirds of Americans polled don’t agree with advertisers tracking their online habits. Here are some of the key takeaways from the research (as reported by the New York Times):

66 percent of Americans believe tailored ads are “not OK”
7 percent [...]

Let me introduce myself. I’m a twenty-something college student at Michigan State University. I don’t have cable in my room and I only subscribe to several print magazines, but I read my college paper every day because it’s free and accessible on campus (and I work there, too). I don’t visit newspaper’s Web sites often [...]

Last week, Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism published its annual “State of the News Media” report. The title gives a good description of what the report is about, but this year’s report is particularly interesting. I’ll be honest, I work at a newspaper and times really are tough. [...]