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Managing Director and Senior Research Associate, Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics, Duke University Appearing at: From Management to Leadership 06/09/2008 - 06/12/2008 Seminar Schedule
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Leadership Tips: Five Questions For... Mike Benard Five Questions for ... Mike Benard Former VP Communications & Public Affairs, Kodak Speaker, Writer, Coach on Communications Issues API: What is happening in the news industry and what is different about this transformation? MB: Change has changed. We are... By API Staff | May 07, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Teachers' private postings may make waves in school Free expression is an essential guarantee of the First Amendment - the freedom to speak and write as we will, without censorship by the government. But the freedom to express oneself doesn't necessarily provide a buffer against the reaction to... By Gene Policinski | May 07, 2008 Leadership Tips: Five Questions For... Eli Amdur Five Questions For... Eli Amdur Executive Coach and Adjunct Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University Appearing at From Management to Leadership June 9-12, 2008 VG: What is the biggest mistake most companies make structurally that stands in the way of the staff's... By Vicki Govro | April 21, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Diverse newsrooms contribute to public trust of press When should it matter what a reporter or a television correspondent looks like or where he or she comes from? The answer to that question is both "never" and "always." There is an argument made by some that ethnic or... By Gene Policinski | April 17, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Banning liquor ads in college newspapers doesn't work There are moments when a courtroom win for free expression in America may not entirely seem like such a good thing to some Americans, for some distinctly non-First Amendment reasons. I confess to a bit of dueling emotions myself about... By Gene Policinski | April 10, 2008 Leadership Tips: Five Questions For... Steve Gray Five Questions For... Steve Gray Managing Director, Newspaper Next, American Press Institute Appearing at Strategic Leadership: Making Radical Change Happen May 12-15, 2008, in Chicago API: What's the biggest challenge facing newspaper companies today? SG: Frankly, it's a double challenge:... By API Staff | April 10, 2008 Training Tracks: Talking a journalist off the ledge "Talk me down off the ledge," pleaded the subject line of a recent email. The ledge the writer emailed me from is crowded with journalists overwhelmed by digital demands, interactive inferiority complexes and a collapsing business model. I write a... By Steve Buttry | April 07, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Closed-door government lacks key ingredient: us Government at all levels always leans toward conducting business behind closed doors. The reasons range from the ease of working out compromises to avoiding hurt feelings and political repercussions to making the process work faster. The only problems - apart... By Gene Policinski | March 20, 2008 Leadership Tips: Five Questions For...Bill Watson Five Questions for... Bill Watson Executive Editor, Pocono Record/Pocono Mountains Media Group, Stroudsburg, Pa. Appearing at Leading Local Content Teams May 5-7, 2008, in Reston, Va. VG: What are some of the most common ways that small newsrooms waste time... By Vicki Govro | March 18, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Rhubarb resumes over who owns sports info, images SARASOTA, Fla. - Spring-training games are under way here, as they are across Florida and Arizona, and the bright warmth of a late-winter sun and a deep-blue sky over a Cincinnati-Pittsburgh game belied the chilly dispute going on between Major... By Gene Policinski | March 07, 2008 Training Tracks: Google doesn't fear outbound links; neither should you Some questions about journalism innovation stump me. This one didn't. A person who's trying to help journalists move into the digital world was trying to persuade some newspaper editors and writers to "build credibility with their users by having the... By Steve Buttry | March 05, 2008 Leadership Tips: Five Questions For...Richard Honack Five questions for ... Richard Honack Assistant Dean, Chief Marketing Officer and Adjunct Associate Professor of Marketing Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Appearing at Strategic Leadership: Making Radical Change Happen May 12-15, 2008, in Chicago VG: What are some... By Vicki Govro | March 04, 2008 Training Tracks: Social networks link in ways you can't foresee I've written quite a bit recently about my effort to learn about social networking and how it is useful for journalists (and for the public we serve). As I expanded my LinkedIn network, I kept asking people to tell me... By Steve Buttry | February 28, 2008 Training Tracks: Learning how to LinkIn and what it's worth When a graying journalist like me ventures into Facebook or twitter, you can count on finding lots of users who are way ahead of you and understand the terrain much better. Join LinkedIn and you find lots of users who... By Steve Buttry | February 28, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Student wins battle over protecting immigration editorial News happens, on occasion, even when something doesn't happen - as in a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to consider an appeal involving a California high school student's editorial writings on immigration. The decision not to decide... By Gene Policinski | February 21, 2008 Training Tracks: Bob Steele: a source of guidance and clarity I hesitate to write about Bob Steele's accomplishments, because I don't want this to sound like a eulogy. He's not dead and he's not retiring. He's not even fully leaving Poynter. But Bob's contributions to journalism - specifically to the... By Steve Buttry | February 12, 2008 Training Tracks: Upholding and Updating Ethical Standards API has received a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation to present a heavily subsidized seminar for newsrooms, press associations and journalism organizations. We can present a one-day Upholding and Updating Ethical Standards seminar examining ethical issues... By Steve Buttry | February 12, 2008 Leadership Tips: Innovation requires picking up the pace Newspapers love multi-level planning, with lots of meetings, memos, battle plans and the like. Well, that doesn't work in the fast pace that innovation requires, as Scott Karp explains in this Publishing 2.0 post. This is a bit of rant,... By Steve Buttry | February 11, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: How not to handle a college newspaper dispute A fiscal fight at Montclair State University in New Jersey between student journalists and the student government has lessons for both sides. The dispute came about because The Montclarion newspaper staff hired its own attorney to advise it on possible... By Gene Policinski | February 08, 2008 Training Tracks: Social networking: a marathon where you sprint Here's the biggest lesson I've learned about social networking: Connection grows from activity. When I reached out to connect with people on Facebook, we connected. When I twittered a lot, people connected with me. When I joined Wired Journalists and... By Steve Buttry | February 08, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Voters will decide if political attacks are too rough A political "smack-down" was how one cable network talk show described the most recent Democratic candidates' televised debate - more the parlance of pro wrestling than national politics. In a spirited exchange, Sen. Barack Obama slammed Sen. Hillary Clinton's work... By Gene Policinski | January 25, 2008 Training Tracks: Ready to twitter to learn what that is A couple months ago I wrote about my efforts to learn more about LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, Delicious and the world of Web 2.0. I'll update you later on how those efforts are going, but right now I want to invite... By Steve Buttry | January 25, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Car talk: Hour may be getting late for the vanity PL8 You may never have thought of the center part of your car's bumper as an opportunity for multi-tasking or creativity - or as a free-speech battleground - but it is. By Gene Policinski | January 14, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Look for '08 to be year of broadcast-regulation battles Television has been called everything from a "boob tube" and "vast wasteland" to one of the most significant developments in the history of mankind. But as we move into 2008, the messages and images that TV brings are a battleground.... By Gene Policinski | January 04, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: On its birthday and every day, First Amendment matters As 2007 draws to a close, the meaning and application of a 216-year-old amendment to the U.S. Constitution protecting our basic liberties are issues as contentious as ever. By Gene Policinski | December 13, 2007 |