editor on the verge

Online musings from the newsroom and beyond . . . by Yoni Greenbaum

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TMZ has more to offer… No, really

February 9th, 2008 · No Comments

So evidently someone was thinking that there’s more that TMZ could teach newspapers then just how to run a story meeting. On Friday, TMZ Founder Harvey Levin spoke to journalism students at NYU. You can find coverage here and here. If you were in attendance, feel free to add your own take on his appearance.

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Tags: Education · Industry · Leadership

Your newsroom could learn something from TMZ… No, really

February 2nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Do your story meetings look like TMZ‘s? If not, maybe they should? In most newsrooms, story meetings are near clandestine events, with participants marching, piles of paper in hand, to a conference room (or office) only to emerge anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour and a half later looking haggard and, in some cases, […]

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Tags: Best Practices · Editors · Industry · Innovation · Meetings