Comments on: Trying to Stay Relevant as the Media Sands Shift – TV Newser Summit

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:34:33 +0000

Thats well commented and i agree with you to have success in social media, take part with active mind in conversations

By: Amy Ruben

Amy Ruben — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:42:50 +0000

Joining the conversation is key. This article reminded me of a quote that I recently read:
“It is important for PR to involve regular people through social media to provide observations that humanize and connect, so that the ‘voice of authority’ is friend and confidante.” Richard Edelman, CEO, Edelman PR

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:43:44 +0000

In the middle 1990s we heard that the Internet will change everything. The Internet is doing to society as the printing-press had done to European dark ages. For good or bad our ways of living is changing.

By: Tom Murphy - Notes: A Comment made on Jim Long's blog

Tom Murphy - Notes: A Comment made on Jim Long's blog — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:37:57 +0000

[...] Comment made on Jim Long’s blog The original post can be seen here.Twitter and its social media counterparts are great but so is TV. I don’t think there is a [...]

By: Tom Murphy

Tom Murphy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:54:55 +0000

Twitter and its social media counterparts are great but so is TV. I don’t think there is a need to set up a media schism where old skool = bad and new school = good.

For TV to stay relevant it has to focus on what it does really well and which other forms of media do not offer as much.

For instance this very evening I watched a programme made by NBC and reshown here in Ireland about the ‘Octomom.’ There was an in depth interview with the mother, Nadya Suleman, a well laid out story that joined up the events that led up to the births and footage of the mother at home with the kids plus some pertinent comments from the kids themselves on the new additions to the family.

I had heard about the multiple births as an event from twitter and had gleaned facts from the web and newspapers but it was only a TV programme such as this one from NBC that could bring it all together and give me a visual/visceral understanding of the life of that woman and her kids and the issues surrounding them.

That is just one recent example.

I am confident and hopeful that there will always be a demand for that sort of story-telling.

It is not an either/or situation but a constant morphing of how we communicate according to the tools we have available to us.

Keep up the good work.

By: Jim Long

Jim Long — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:41:38 +0000

Michael, If you call yourself the “father of videojournalism” and tell people like me that my career is effectively over, well you’re going to get called a couple of names besides “serial consultant” isn’t too terrible. In fact that might be my next career!

By: Digital Clippings

Digital Clippings — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:19:43 +0000

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By: Adele McAlear

Adele McAlear — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:02:43 +0000

I think Patty hit it on the head: “news organizations are not flat, they are deeply heirarchical.” It is the pecking order of things within mainstream news, the command and control, authoritarian attitude, both inward and outward facing, that is making adaptation to a dialogue so difficult. Despite being nimble and quick to respond with your camera on the ground, the chains of command amongst mainstream news media, as parts of global corporations, don’t turn on a dime. Jim, you’ve worked on the inside for almost 3 years to help educate your peers and the-powers-that-be about the changes besetting your industry. I’m glad you no longer look like the crazy uncle.

By: Rosenblum

Rosenblum — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:47:29 +0000

Hey Jim
I agree with all of the above. You may have started as ‘just’ a cameraman, but you long ago left that behind. You are well ahead of others with whom you began, and you should be a model for where they can go to survive that shift that has already begun.

Having been a lightning rod for criticism for many years (and called everything from a pig to a dog), I am not overly sensitive, yet I think ‘serial consultant’ is a bit harsh. I think I have delivered a fairly constant (and some might say monotonous) line for more than 20 years now.

In any event, I think that your place far more properly is on the panel in front of the cameras, as opposed to behind them. Get used to it.

By: Dean C. Smith

Dean C. Smith — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:42:34 +0000

The world will always need the story. We are the storytellers and we are the new content producers. You’re leading by example Jim, thank you!