Interview blunder: ‘Talk about…’
Much to my chagrin, I have witnessed several local television reporters over the past six months throw out this less-than-professional...
News as art
Graphics treated as fine art: I once attended a graphic design session at a magazine conference in Los Angeles in which the speaker...
The third quadrant
Don’t use terminology your subordinates do not understand: Sadly, the following is a true story. A company holds an annual retreat for...
Employees are your customers
Treat employees fairly, but not necessarily the same: U.S. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf is best known for leading coalition forces as...
Meetings: Leave your devices at your desk
I recently heard a story about a departmental meeting in which an attendee was asked a question by his boss, but did not reply. He wasn’t...
If someone seems unstable, do something!
Hours after 29-year-old Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. in the...
Trump’s war against the media
Donald Trump’s parents didn’t create Donald Trump, the media created Donald Trump: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald...
Put the Ali story in context
Muhammad Ali The other Ali Muhammad Ali not only rocked the boat in the early days of his career, he turned it on its side. Upon his...
Typo epidemic plagues news sites
We all make typos while entering our stories, some of us more than others. But newsroom standard operating procedures aid in catching and...
The media remembers Prince
The Artist ... In 1992 agents for Prince let it be known that the artist would be represented by a symbol instead of by the name Prince,...