In International Media Relations Headlines Matter - March 3, 2021
In every major news shop there is a managing editor. That job is organizing and distributing the work to fit the news of the day. They know more about holiday schedules, visa rules and airlines than pandemics, elections or sporting events. Bloodshot budgets over the last couple of years means every decision is critical. Without their skill, the news just stops.

Media And The Virus: Early Reports Unclear - December 21, 2020
Every calendar is like this. Reporters and editors - not to forget readers and viewers - far more consumed with year's end holidays, button down early in the month. Last December - 2019 - was more of the same. Most headlines and videos were generated by sports reporters, feeding the need to cheer. News - and ads - about shopping filled considerable space.

Another Reporter Intimidation Tactic Bends Diplomacy - December 14, 2020
Authorities in countries of a certain bent really do not appreciate reporters nosing around and publishing their observations. We know this. We’ve known this for quite some time. Intimidation is typically the means for deterring this unwanted behavior. Press freedom advocates watch for this. When reporters are rounded up or roughed up these groups insure yet another news story. We’ve see these reports so often - and usually by the same culprits - a certain numbness sets in.

Big Global News Media Faces Down Dictators - August 13, 2020
News media is truly globalized. A hundred years ago this was barely the case. Sure, bigger newspapers hired foreign correspondents, readers enjoyed the occasional report from faraway places even when the copy was slowly carried across the seas by boat. Then radio carried news across wide spaces and international broadcasting was off and running. Satellites were launched to enable television channels almost everywhere. Now, it is the internet, occasionally spiced up with the odd bot.

No Simple Options When The Table Is An Illusion - March 18, 2020
Media messaging is a war zone today. Authoritarian rulers take this very seriously. Some, perhaps, are mindful of their predecessors’ missteps and, for them, the dire consequences. This is not simply a public relations exercise. As in all war zones, the real victims are on the ground.

News Outlets Bust Digital Blackouts - August 25, 2019
Certain to amaze - even horrify - Millennials not everything is digital. Indeed, there are means of communication not dependent on ones and zeros, anything in between or bots. Analogue platforms, hardly extinct, have certain advantages.

Looking East, Looking West And Looking Down - January 6, 2014
Despite choruses from the highly quoted media thinkers of our day, traditional media – publishing and broadcasting – continues to have the one thing hard to buy at any price but that the rich and powerful want more than anything. Influence is brighter than gold. Quite hot to the touch, too.

China and Media

For the media world China both entices and exasperates. Potentials in this youthful and rapidly developing country are huge. Yet media freedoms are far below world standards. This ftm Knowledge file peers over the Great Wall. Includes Resources 79 pages PDF (May 2012)

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