My daughter Amanda took the above photo in Nepal. The picture on the right is of my new granddaughter, Elizabeth Jane. I thought of them as I discovered The Girl Effect, a project from the Nike and UN Foundation that stunned global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The big idea: unlocking the […]
Back in 2005, the host of a “phony news” show on Comedy Central was named the most trusted TV anchor. Comedian Jon Stewart responded by invoking the Groucho Marx line that he’d never belong to any club that would have him as a member. Stewart’s stature has rankled TV’s shouting heads, money honeys, and Ken-and-Barbies […]
Since our message of optimism and opportunity at the We Media conference, a number of like-minds have sent me this video of Louis CK’s appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. You Tube has disabled embedding at the request of NBC, but you can watch it here with a laugh and a sigh. Dale PeskinDale […]
I like to play with word mashups that impart new meaning and metaphors, but sometimes you’ve got to be careful when you apply them to a URL. Like: www.newstools.org New stools? A furniture-maker’s site? Horticulturalist’s? Bishop’s? African chieftan’s? Informant’s? Or gastroenterologist’s? Creative capitalization helps: NewsTools. The site highlights the work of the Journalism That Matters […]
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer makes nice with John Stewart tonight on The Daily Show. Here’s the video of the cat fight from Cramer’s colleagues at CNBC. In case you missed it, the original hurts-so-hysterically takedown is here. Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, took down the original takedown on You Tube. Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus […]
Two programs, the latest in a long conversation, have brought smart people together this week to save journalism’s role in democracy. Journalism That Matters, a community of “media innovators and stakeholders,” is concluding a three-day seminar at the Poynter Institute “adapting journalism to the new news ecology.” At the University of Nevada in Reno a […]
In a Harvard Business post that has tongues wagging in Cambridge and Davos, Umair Haque trashes a century of capitalism. Twentieth Century growth was not only dumb, but it is now eating itself. A hearty appetite, apparently. Hague posits four pillars of smart growth for economies, communities and corporations for this century: 1. Outcomes, not […]
Occasionally I am reminded of the paradox that we each have a limited existence in the limitless framework of time. Or so reads the clock at the funeral home.. In a favorite movie, a jaded, cynical and arrogant weatherman covers the same, old story on February 2: the faked emergence of a groundhog from his […]
Many thanks to Bill Sobel, the New York: Media Information Exchange Group and bright-eyed and just-plain-bright conversation leaders at our first breakfast club discussion at the Samsung Experience in NYC on Thursday. Beyond the tasty mini lox-and-bagels and morning fresheners with media movers-and-shakers, we managed to launch our new initiative on the first We Media […]