• During my transition from journalist, to filmmaker, to academic/media strategist, I’ve concluded that the profession formerly known as Public Relations lies at the sweet spot of 21st century professional communications.  Marketing is trying hard to be more like journalism (pushing more authentic, relevant and useful media), journalism is moving towards marketing (the search for self-sustaining…

  • KING 5 anchor Brad Goode e-mailed me at 4:30 a.m. about this, but I didn’t see it until 8 a.m. The newsroom called me at 8:20 to do a phoner, I said no way! I’ll get to the studio on time. I made it with 30 seconds to spare…Full story here. 1st collector for UW…

  • I’ve been a longtime fan of John Cook and Todd Bishop, as they left their steady print journalism jobs to launch TechFlash.com a couple of years ago.  Now they’ve truly gone independent, cutting their ties to the Puget Sound Business Journal to create GeekWire.  I was honored to be their inaugural podcast (MP3 here). We…