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Halsey Minor is misunderstood… Everything you’ve heard is wrong  
-Minor v. Danielson hearing Friday...Fraud dismissed: But Halsey Minor wins refiling right 
 
Rewind: The Baddest Boy in Silicon Valley  


Rest In Peace DJ Peachez | @djpeachez 
-DJ Peachez Death 
-DJ Peachez, Richmond DJ, Dies   

Internet postings lead to lawsuits
-Two Dreamboats, One News Story  

Washington Post shutters last U.S. bureaus | City Paper
 
Can DC’s New Digital News Operations Replace the Once-Great Newspaper Bureaus?

Q94's Chase Defects to Mix 103.7 FM...Pop Diva’s Switch Makes Radio Waves 
Metro Weekly v. Washington Blade
Can’t stop the free-paper madness
SMCCville Six Ways To Use Social Media
Will the Facebook Fan Page make websites obsolete?
How We Used Facebook To Try To Free Azerbaijan's 'Donkey Bloggers'...Azeri judge sentences Hajizada to two years in prison
November 17, 2009
SMCRVA: Political Panel | @smcrva | #smcrva
Moderated by @ryanobles
-@BobMcDonnell ~staff
-@JaredLeopold 
-@jasonkenney 
-@Jaquith 
-@garyreinhardt
 
Recap
-Videos courtesy of @Commonmanfilms 
-By the Tweeple For the Tweeple: Social Media Club of Richmond November Event 
-Social Media in Virginia Politics: @SMCRVA 
-SMCRVA Panel Wrap

Preview
-SMCRVA Presents- Gubernatorial election post-mortem: Tuesday November 17th
-NBC12 Interview w @rvabusiness 
-Related: Style Cover: How Virginia Democrats overestimated the power of Obama and underestimated the importance of independent voters...Online ads in Va. gubernatorial race ‘set the standard’  

November 17, 2009
SMCEDURVA: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Getting jobs for college grads since 2009 
-UofR hosts SMCEDU’s Round Robin Discussions on Social Media 
-SMCEDU-RVA Hosts a Round-Robin of the Big Three 


The Hat Turns One

Gay weekly abruptly shuttered...Washington Blade: To everyone who's expressing gratitude, love and support: Thank you. You're helping stem the tears.
-AP | DCist | Editors Web Blog | NY Times | Politico | Washington Times | WeLoveDC
-Southern Voice, David shut down 

The Digital Future -- Goin' Mobile!
Upcoming Events...A Social Media Trifecta Hits the RVA...
  
November 18, 2009 
RichTech TechSummit: Social Media in the Workplace
8:00 am-12:00 pm The Westin, 6631 West Broad St 
-Benefits, risks of using social media in the workplace

How about giving restaurants a few weeks before issuing proclamations?
Downturns rattle Unificationists  

Washington Times Fires Three Top Executives, Editor May Resign
...Solomon resigns as TWT editor 

'Richmond Times-Dispatch' Media Campaign Touts Paper as 'Solid and Strong'
Commercials:
-featuring Information Technology Manager Mike Snead
-featuring Classified Sales Manager Karen Underwood 

Richmond Media War Games
As newspapers struggle, can good reporting find a place on Internet? (via)
 
More Newspaper Trends
-Is Paid Content Losing Steam? 
-Multi-Platform 'Content Room' Puts Journos in New Roles 
-NYT’s Denise Warren: Things Are Looking Up—But Ask Again Next Week 
-Gannett Looks to Spread the 'Buzz' to Advertisers

Internet Summit 09 drew 1200 to Raleigh event...Getting the most from the Internet Summit 
-Internet Summit 09 

Harvey Hudson, voice of Richmond radio, dies at 88
Creigh Deeds
 
Bob McDonnell  
  
RGL's Politics Twitter List

 
Gubernatorial campaigns rely on social media
  
Campaigns use new media to get the vote out 
-WaPo's Virginia Politics Twitter Aggregator

Newspaper staff shares ‘Paranormal’ experience
Isle of Wight now broadcasts emergency alerts on Twitter
Touch of Life: The Guide to Breast Self-Examination
-Critics Say Airing During 'Sweeps' Is Exploitative, but Station Says Its Motive Is to Raise Awareness 
-TV report on breast self-exams bares all 
-Won’t Blur Boobs 
-Sparks Outrage with Parental and Women’s Groups 
-Those Bad Breasts 

Allbritton and Politico Attack the Post on a Second Front...PostKiller.com: Will Politico-Style Site Obliterate Other Local Media Outlets?
-The New Republic | NY Times  



So, you’ve been playing fast and loose with social media like Twitter and Facebook? Careful — it could be the thing that costs you your job.

A change in ownership, but no big change in magazine
T-D readership trends continue...The Pilot's circulation drops 5.8% for weekdays 
 
Circulation craters at Virginia papers  

Times-Dispatch Business News Staff Expands
RVAFreaks Launches
-Discussion Board

Summit participants discuss future of radio
Blogger vs. Journalist
Thursday, October 22, 2009
SMC Richmond Potpourri | #SMCRVA
-But I Live In Richmond! by @knownhuman | The Other Side of the Byline and General News 
-Social Media ROI: Real. Local. Measurable. by @NhatPham  
-Social Media APIs: The new language of the web by @busse | SMCRVA Social Media APIs presentation PPT and Excel+Twitter API demo files
 
A Cornucopia of Concepts, Code and Cupcakes   

No contact: JADE blogger takes plea...JADE Blogger Back Online 
Content and Its Discontents on the Web
 
The New York Times’ Coming Jihad Against The Huffington Post 
Newspaper Redesign Can Be Okay But Great Reporting Is Still What’s Important
Media General earnings decline in 3Q...Reports Loss on $84 Million...loss is linked to impairment charge...sees signs of improvement
Longtime Richmond reporter Bill Wasson dies
CBS6 Best of the Blogs: West of the Boulevard
-
West of the Boulevard
When Should a Critic Just Trash a Place?
The Happy World of the New Washington Post Magazine
Virginia Talks Launches
-@VirginiaTalks
Richmond's Panel Kicks Off a New Chapter  
Monday, October 12, 2009
TWEET THAT! | #tweetthat
Using social media for career, branding and community building with 
-@trevordickerson
-@jolieodell
-@generrapeck 
-@cjsn
 
Panelists discuss social media at VCU 
 
From SMCEDU: 5 Steps to Make the Social Web Work for Higher Ed
 
This is My Twitterverse -- 'Tweet That, Prof' 

FTC issues blogger payola crackdown
-Richmond Media Musings
-FTC Wants To Clarify: Bloggers Probably Won't Get Dinged $11,000 

CBS6 Best of Blogs: Boulevardizen.com - Check it Out 
-Boulevardizen 

Greater Richmond Grid Launch Party: Issue 2
Couple growing RVANews into local information hub
-RVANews
New issue of Richmond Grid Profiles Tweeps:
-@JovanH 
-@Mox_eMediaGirl 
-@Richmondmom 
-@TrevorDickerson 

Hashbrown Networking
 
Rumple Minze Networking Twitter Group
The Washington Post Launches All-Local Homepage
-
washingtonpost.com/local

After tweeting for months, a little face time


Best of the Blogs: Hills and Heights
-Hills and Heights
Blogger turns weight-loss success into springboard
The Fix's Best State-Based Political Reporters
Washington Post Editor Ends Tweets as New Guidelines Are Issued
-WaPo’s Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner; Full Text of Guidelines
-Orwellian Nonsense At The Washington Post: Reporters, Shut Up! 

Do You Get it? Then We Want You to Share It with SMCRVA!
20 years of hits and misses from C-VILLE's archives...Two decades of C-VILLE  
-From the owner's suite: 20 years of C-VILLE

Listen up: Harvey Hudson honored
 
Harvey Hudson, a golden voice of Richmond radio, nears a 70-year milestone
Media General to Announce Third-Quarter 2009 Results, Host Conference Call on October 21
Social media as the media relations amplifier
The Business of Tweeting
My (Rachel DePompa)6 Month Blogging Anniversary!
Casey Nicholson Back!
Retired T-D writer honored for bay reporting
'Tobacco Avenue' provides Richmond award-winning fake news
-Tobacco Avenue 
 

TA Instant Classic: 
Report: Floodwall Lacks Adequate Protection Against Southsiders 

Fwix Announces Real-Time News Wire API, Series A Funding 
-Fwix Richmond 
  
Loudoun to Media Outlets: How Local Can You Go?
 
Top tech companies say they can help publishers charge for news

Local TV news for the working stiff

Style Cover: Pulp Future
-Final Delivery
The dead-tree dailies of the media world keep getting chopped by declining circulation, dwindling advertising and an ever-enveloping Internet. Can we, should we —could we — live without a daily newspaper? 
-The Pay Wall
How broken is the newspaper business? We’re about to find out. 
-Princeton economist and ex-journalist Sam Schulhofer-Wohl examines the fallout: dangers to democracy.
-Micro News: How local can local news get? How about one block? | Boulevardizen.com | @boulevardizen ...A New Beginning
-Video Feature: A conversation with longtime Times-Dispatch reporter, editor and historian, Earle Dunford.
 
Rewind: Under water: What do Media General’s financial woes mean for The Daily Progress?
 
More furloughs looming at Tampa Tribune parent
  
Brick, the Orphan Child...
Sources: Brick Weekly Apparently Still Publishing
 
To our (RTD) readers: changes today
Frank Batten Sr. was local light, a national innovator
-Timeline | Gifts | Remembrances | Mission
-UVA's Biggest Donor: UVA Statement | C-ville | The Hook
-Bloomberg | InsideBiz | News-Record | NPR | NY Times | Times Dispatch | Wall Street Journal | Washington Post 
 
Frank Batten Sr. remembered as 'low-key' yet 'extraordinary' 

Welcome Back Villains...On the Future of Charlottesville (and other Local) Media 
-Blog, reborn: cVillain returns with new masters 

Richmond Twestival 2009
-#rvatwestival 
 
Richmond Twestival a Success!
  
Richmond Twestival to Benefit Tricycle Gardens
  
Summing Up the Week Quickly... Running on Deadline!
 
Richmond Grid Interview...It's Twestival Time (in Richmond) 

-Twestival and RVAjazz: Call for recorded music

Councilman Not Getting This Twitter Thing 
Richmond Magazine on Twitter! @RichmondMag 
Near West End Schools Systems Join Twitter. Will They Actually Use it? 
-@henricoschools
-@RPS_Schools

Introducing: Eats
-Eats

Ukrop's Launches New Blog...Ukrop's Promotes Online Blog
-Dish

Council candidates barely online


September 3, 2009: Social Media Club Richmond presents Local Business and Social Media – Is It Working? 
-Moderator @KendallMorris from @theartofimpact
-Tommy Donovan (@richmondcomix)  - Richmond Comix
-Matt Lake (@mrl37) - Wine & Beer Westpark (Blog | Facebook)
-An Bui (@MekongRVA) - MeKong (Facebook)
-AnnMarie Grohs (@Amgrohs) - Morton's
5-7 PM Fuego | Mekong After-Party
-Sponsors: Fuego, The Hodges Partnership (@jonnew), RichmondMom.com (@richmondmom
-Follow @SMCRVA 
-Preview: Beer Drinkin' and Social Media
 
Recap
#smcrva
 
Social Media Club Richmond - Sept 3 Event at Fuego / Mekong ( review) by @dwestjr
 
 
RVA Shout Outs To My Richmond Homies |
Video by @jolieodell
 
I Live With Furry Pranksters (or: September SMCRVA Wrap-up) by @mattjh2 
 
SMCRVA Review: Beer, Eggrolls, and Local Business by @omgwtfrva
  
My very first Social Media Club (RVA) event by @proverbial_ink
 
Social Media Club Richmond: Business Promotions Through Emerging Media by @richmondgrid 

Confessions of a Twitter Reject

Vote Richmonders to SXSW!
-Combining Online/Offline to Strengthen Brand
-Creative Technologists - Advertising's Saviors or Harbingers of Doom?
-Roadtwip 
 
New Gallery 5 Site Is Easy To Love
-Gallery 5 

Y101 Richmond's New Rock Alternative NOW @ 100.9! | Radio Ink

Hashbrowns with a side of Twitter... Keeping it real with #hashbrownnetworking
 

Hash Brown Networking
-#hashbrownnetworking

fredericksburg.com launches redesign
 
NBC12 New Design

Landmark Media Enterprises puts Plume Street building up for sale


Richmond Family Magazine to launch in October
-Richmond Family Magazine | Twitter

When news breaks … which media outlet gets the credit?
RVAnews iPhone Site
WTKR's Ciara gets assault charges over scuffle

YouTube Video Spotlights Cancer Battle 
-Taylor Love

The next #SMCRVA event will be on Sept. 3 Mark your calendars. Details and tickets soon!
Who's That "Checkout" Girl?
-Paparazzi 

CBS6 News Team: Sandra Jones
ACLU says it's ready to defend arrested blogger...ACLU offers: But JADE-watcher fears retribution  
 
Hobby or harassment? Blogger Strom jailed for cop site
-A persistent blogger annoys police -- and winds up in jail

Bumper Sticker Upsets T-D Publisher
TWITTER in the Media
 
Social Media in Richmond

A Real Practical Social Media Case Study:
-Exchanging Eat-Ups via Tweet-Up


Exit Stage Right...@StyleWeekly Happy to announce that Don Harrison, our new Arts & Culture Editor, will start Monday. 
-Reaction: Buttermilk and Molasses | Richmond Theatre + Full Press Release

Pleased to Meet You ...Thornton Named Richmond.com 'Chief Connector'
-Is Media General/TD Regaining Traction?

New Richmond Websites!
-Boulevardizen.com | @boulevardizen ...A New Beginning
hyper local community news for Carytown, Boulevard, Upper Fan, & Museum District.
-RVATaste | @rvataste
a passion to discover new food and culture in the Richmond Virginia area. 
Local media mostly silent on their business
Star NY Times reporter went to high school in Richmond. Which one?
The key players of Washington's influential and controversial weeklypaper look back on its legacy (via)
Monday Q&A: News isn’t always free?
'Church Hill People's News' bringing community together
-Today we are 5! 
-
Church Hill People’s News
Marketing expo offers business advice on social media
  
Be aggressive. B-E aggressive. 

Richmond Grid Launches
How Gawker Ripped Off My Newspaper Story
-Post Journo's Righteous Indignation Won't Save Journalism 
 
Remembering the Time When Radio Was Accused of Being The Death of Journalism 

Hey, Richmond, how about some yelps?
From a Texas Small Town and a Bedding Company, the Future of Journalism, Marketing, or Both
-Hodges Partnership 


source: Style Weekly
NBC12 announces several changes to newscasts
-WWBT’s Gene Cox leaving 11 p.m. newscast
-Don't Count Gene Cox Out. Ever.
-Ch-ch-ch-changes! 
 
Retrospective
Gene Cox's most memorable moments at NBC12 (so far!) 

Tobacco Avenue's Gene Cox Series
-To Spend A Little More Time At Fortress Of Solitude
-Pissed he didn’t make Style’s Power List 
-Knighted
-Given the 'cue cards and whiskey don't mix' talk again
-Putting Together Ultimate Frisbee Team 
-To Get Wolverine-Reassignment Surgery

 
Save Richmond: Do Donuts Have Holes?
Angela Pellerano

The Washington Post Company Reports Second Quarter Earnings 
 
The Washington Post Revamps Mobile Products
-Features 


EXILED: 10SBoulevard Blogger Evicted For Hyper Local News Site
-Evicted for Blogging? | WOTBN

Blogger has his say with 'Buttermilk and Molasses'...NBC12 Doesn't Call Buttermilk the "Elder Statesman" 
Richmond-based Compleo puts social media to work
Local Man Hailed As Hero After Beating Self-Proclaimed Social Media Expert Within Inches Of Life
Media General share price and first quarter income on the rise...Media General Jumps on 46% Operating Profit Gain...Swings To 2Q Profit On Cost Cuts...TV Revenues Drop 21 Percent 
Radio For the Rest of Us: WRIR's Evolution
-WRIR SHOW PROFILE: Cause and Effect
-WRIR SHOW PROFILE: The Lounge 
-WRIR SHOW PROFILE: Midnight Soulstice

New communication tools for Chesterfield public schools...Chesterfield Schools Go Social Media
-@ccpsinfo

Introducing Punch Drunk...Jack
  
The Newest Style Weekly Columnist: Jack Goes Forth...Rewind: This Is The End... 

How to Poorly Represent for Your Brand in 140 Characters or Less
-In The Wide Open Web Everyone’s Watching

Social media @ work
Kirby Carmichael's Return
WVEC's general manager and president loses his job 
 
Owner of Norfolk TV station fears debt load

The End Of This Young House...Introducing Young House Love 
Don't Be Afraid of Social Media
OMGWTFRVA Banner Advertising
-OMGWTFRVA.NET

Is Social Media Dead?
-Social Media: The Plateau Depends on Your Vantage Point

A Year Later…
practicing physician who gave it up to run MacRumors.com and start other web projects.
 
Lite 98’s Bill Bevins’ Weekend To Involve A Ton Of Aerosmith
Under water: What do Media General’s financial woes mean for The Daily Progress?  
 
What’s in The Daily Progress’ Future?
 
Days numbered for Media General magazine? 
  
Sources: Brick Weekly Apparently Still Publishing 

New Monthly Magazine
Greater Richmond GRID
...Announcement
a magazine and web channel that captures metropolitan Richmond’s diverse and interesting people, cultural vibrancy and business innovations
The new managing editor of Richmond Magazine's R.Home: Brandon Fox 
-R.Home
-Brandon Eats Tomatoes at Richmond Magazine 

In the world of advertising, he married art and words
One Dating Column Enters 
This is How We Do It 
  
One Date Column Leaves 
Robot Hearts
 
Richmond.com Has 3 Dating Columns!
-Caroline's Plate: @carolinesplate #Set-Ups: A Discussion on Set-Ups via Social Media
-Krissy in the City: Single and Not Looking?
-Vic in a Box: Pick-Up Lines: Eh?
 
..and don't forget to check out @thecheckoutgirl in Belle

Twitter can be a profitable tool for marketing featuring @madmain @SeanHVAC 
 
How Tweet It Is: Richmond Organizations Embrace Social Media featuring @lewisginter @rvabusiness @smcrva @vmfa 
-Richmond.com Explores Richmond on Twitter 
 
Marketing firms look to Twitter instead of newspapers...Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley 

Richmonder Terry Taylor (@ttaylordude) Writing Real-Time Novel on Twitter
-Tweet, You’re Dead 
The 4th PR idea…ok, maybe 3 1/2
 
Welcome to the dream blog
-SleepBetter.org | @dream_bigger | Carpenter Co (Richmond, VA)

Picking Your Battles: Goodbye cVillain 
-Local Blog cVillain Says Goodbye...Sad Cvillain... 
-We Settled the Rosenberg Lawsuit for $750 

PR Case Study:
Re-Discovering Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
 
Richmond Bloggers Visit Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden! 
-All Things Richmond | EPICURIOUSITY | Hills and Heights | Oregon Hill | RichmondMom.com 
 
Green Tonic- Urban Gardening Symposium At Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden 

Audio from July’s New Media Seminars (How Social Media Changed Everything in PR)
WTF? 
OMGWTFRVA.COM
versus?
OMGWTFRVA.NET 
 
New Media, New Responsibilities (.net, btw)
-Subsequent debate between @styleweekly and @cameronparker



Fuzzy Signals

While dying newspapers get funereal treatment, local television news searches for its place in a changing media landscape.
  
Getting the Style Treatment
 
Rewind: An Old Print Dog Crosses Over...Sleeping Giant
 
WTVR CBS6 Website Re-Design

The Dinosaur on the Lawn


'Wash Post" Pay-to-Play Dinner Offer Blows Up -- Here Are Links to Reactions -- And Video Spoof
Veronica's Test Kitchen: Goodbye...
-Kitchen Musings

Investor increases stake in Media General
-GAMCO Investors

Pandora Town Hall w Founder Tim Westergren, Grace Street Theater, Monday, June 29
-@timwestergren Just finished a terrific town hall in Richmond. What an engaged, curious and creative crowd. And the local Chipotle brought free burritos!
-Opening the box on Pandora 
-Video Interview with Pandora Founder Tim Westergren...Outside the box: Pandora founder speaks in Richmond 
-Pandora Town Hall (Richmond, VA)  
-Pandora Meetup -- Creating a Musician Middle Class 
-Richmond Town Hall - Monday, June 29th...Pandora founder to speak in Richmond

The serious business of social media
Why Richmond, Why?: Richmond.com SEO | News website says it is using SEO 
Anti texting-while-driving law takes effect July 1...No Texting, No E-Mail Behind The Wheel Wednesday...Law aims to bring texting behind the wheel to a full stop...New laws hit books Wednesday 
The case for the “corporate” blog
Richmond ad executive Burford isn’t slowing down
-Burford Advertising

VCU TV/HD Wins Two Regional Emmy Awards for Excellence  
-Your Emmy Award-Winning Bookstore 

SMCRVA 3 on July 23...Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations...featuring Boston's @gradontripp  founder of Social Media for Social Change 
-Rewind: SMCRVA Timeline

Virginia Currents’ May-Lily Lee
Editor recharges her journalism batteries
I’m A Social Media Expert, or, Things About Twitter That Bug Me...Things Bloggers Do That Irritate Me by @homesliceva 
VCU grad named CBS news correspondent
Facebook face-off
Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
-Author Response: Corrections in the digital editions of Free
-Cvillain | Fast Company | Gawker | Kottke

Tales from Twitter: Ukrop's, Jon & Kate and Noodles & Co.
The Washington Post Introduces reachforthewall.com (Site Devoted to Local Swimming Creates Online Hub for D.C-Area Athletes and Fans)
-reachforthewall.com 

(DC-Based) Twicsy Is A Killer And Kind Of Creepy Way To Search Pictures Shared On Twitter 
-twicsy | @Twicsy 

Times-Dispatch introduces new regular columnist
"...Despite the industry critics who are pushing our demise and local critics who are vying to be us -- the region's best edited news source -- we're facing our challenges with the future in mind."
-Introducing himself—Bill Lohmann’s first column...VIDEO: Bill Lohmann from guest to host
 
This is When it Started to Smell Funny to Me...Rewind: Truth and Consequences (Richmond Times-Dispatch Dirty Laundry)
-Rewind: Keeping the Faith...Final Markdown 
-
We're looking for someone who will rip the box into little pieces, burn the remnants, bury the ashes and give birth to a whole new form of journalism in Richmond...Brick Reloaded  
 
Nothing Changes in Richmond 
  
RTD says, Fired Reporters Have Themselves to Blame (full memo)
 
Reporters’ Union Fires Back 
 
Style Weekly Lays Off Two Vending Machines

NewMediaSeminars.com returns to Richmond with Special Discount
Richmond BizSense and SM, a missed opportunity?...Newman Opens the Right Conversation on News and New Media 
 
Web-Based News Site Reluctantly Embraces Web

Guest Opinion: The real deal on Twitter
 
For Hire: Twitter and Facebook whiz


Jolie O'Dell's "A Word to My PR Homies" Series:
On Links in Press Releases...On Writing a Lede...On Subject Lines...On Competition...On the Inverted Pyramid...On Sending Access and Materials...On Getting Weird...On an Awesome New Tool...On Embargoes
Hackers steer commuters toward offensive sign 
-Hey F**KTACO, Turn Here!

Newspapers are in his blood
Hello, will you be my friend?
I Just Called To Say I Love Me
Daily Press Re-Design
 
'Baltimore Sun' Web Site Has New Look...The Sun
Living on Twitter Time
 
Tweet and Sour? Newspapers Set New Rules for Social Networking 

RTD says, Fired Reporters Have Themselves to Blame (full memo)
 
Reporters’ Union Fires Back 
 
Style Weekly Lays Off Two Vending Machines 

Ripping up the paper
Chesterfield Observer changes printers
Refresh Richmond Presents Online Reputation Management w @cjsn @gatewood5000 @rickwhittington @sharif28
-#refreshrva
-Online Reputation Management As Seen From The Outside
         
Rewind: 140-character assassination: Are disclaimers and disclosures needed, or even possible, on Twitter? 

Richmond 2.0; Tweeting for business
  
How-to use Twitter for Local Advertising 

Media battle in a "reporter cluster"...Sifting through the chaos of news 
Richmond’s Y101 to change dial position next month (100.9)
The Top 5 Mistakes of Social Media Marketing
#OMGWTFRVA Facebook URL party
-
OMGWTFRVA Blog Launches...Origins (@OMGWTFRVA @CameronParker @ChokeyChicken @JolieODell @LaptopMnky)
New chief of VCU’s Brandcenter is praised as an innovator | Follow @kellyokeefe 
-Brands and Culture Blog

How Long Will the Daily Progress Last as Is?
TRACK #blogpotomac
 
BlogPotomac(Twitter) Falls Church, Virginia

Shel Holtz (Twitter) keynote on Integration Challenges
-Live From BlogPotomac - Shel Holtz on “Integration Challenges”
-Blog Potomac Has a Posse

Ace Political Blogger Shireen Mitchell (Twitter) - Government 2.0/Political Blogging
 
Ford Social Media Lead Scott Monty (Twitter) - Social Media in a Crisis
-Live from BlogPotomac 2009: Scott Monty on Using Social Media in a Crisis 
-Live From BlogPotomac - Scott Monty on “Social Media in a Crisis”
-Telling Our Story 
 
SOBCon Organizer and Successful Blog Author Liz Strauss (Twitter)- The Business Aspects of Blogging & Social Media
 
Aaron Brazell (Technosailor | Twitter) & Radian 6’s Amber Naslund (Twitter) - Personal Branding, a Dialogue
-Personal Branding
 
Network Solutions Social Media Swami Shashi Bellamkonda (Twitter) - Network Solutions, A Local Success! How they did it.
-Event Review: BlogPotomac 2 
 
Karaoke w Doug Meacham (@dougmeacham), Rohit Bhargava (@rohitbhargava) and Kaitln Wilkens (@catchuplady)
  
Recaps
-My lessons learned at Blog Potomac 
-What I learned at BlogPotomac
-A Few Thoughts From BlogPotomac
-Blog Potomac offers ideas for Historic Sites
-BlogPotomac ROCKED the State Theater
-Liveblogging BlogPotomac in Falls Church, VA 
-Live Blogging: BlogPotomac 
-The Ten Best Ideas from BlogPotomac
-5 thoughts from halftime at Blog Potomac
-Technology Woes Aside, We're at Blog Potomac 

New York Deli to Host GayRVA Launch Party  
-GayRVA Shines at New York Deli Launch Party 

Speaking to Student Journalists about New Media at VCU
NBC12's Gene Cox Raps, Kinda
Retired AP investigative journalist Baskervill to be honored
-Virginia SPJ's George Mason Award Ceremony and Celebration 

WRIC anchor says she and her spouse lost $200,000 in Ponzi scheme
Media Web Site Pushes Entrepreneurial Model
For all the Ex-Times-Dispatch Employees
-Unceremoniously Dispatched (Please Forgive the Adverb)

It's Time to Play: Name that Magazine
The Richmond media market: The shrinkage has stopped
Times-Dispatch fights legal-notice decisions
thoughts on social media
Robert Scoble: Virginia is Twitter crazy!
 
Time Cover: How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
-Mashable 
 
Facebook and Twitter: Boomers are easily jumping on strange-sounding social media.
 
Rewind: All A-Twitter...What in Blue Blazes Is Twittering, Exactly?...
T-D is Stupid about Twitter...
Copywrong? Photog sues blogger for $385K
CRT/tanaka, Richmond utility department snag PR awards
-Winners List/Press Release 

NBC's Terrell Brown Moves to CBS
-So Long, Terrell Brown

From the courthouse to the casino
New Baltimore Sun Technology Blog: BaltTech | Twitter 
-Baltimore to host BarCamp 'unconference' next month 

NBC12 Anchor Gene Cox Putting Together Ultimate Frisbee Team
Going Viral
Check out the new CHPN forum
-Church Hill People's News Forum 

Blogger Gives Richmond Another Gay Voice Online
-The Richmond Outsider
 
New York Deli to Host GayRVA Launch Party 

Capital News Service, the Invisible Source
CBS6 cutbacks?
OTM looks at community blogs and the demise of the daily paper...The Rise of the 'hood Blog... 
St. Catherine’s grad is an anchor on the Fox Business Network
Updated Stuff: New Website, Posting at “That Other Blog,” and the Love Angle 
-Read Write Web

More bad news for the news, more Media General layoffs
The Problem With Facebook
Reporting Live from New Media Seminars
-New Media Seminars Coming to VA Beach in June | New Media Seminar

Taking calls with Q94’s Melissa Chase
-Rewind: Clear Channel

Media's Downward Spiral
American newspapers are in dire financial straits. How are newspapers faring where you are? Are you concerned about the future of journalism in America or in your own country? What does that future look like?
 
Wine and Beer Westpark hosts tastings online...Mob Marketing: Effectively Morphing Your Web Promotions from User-Friendly to User-Generated 
-Wine and Beer Westpark | Blog | Facebook
  
Richmond school system to be on Facebook, Twitter
-@RPS_Schools | Facebook (via)
 
Finding, sharing faith on Facebook
 
Social media at The Times-Dispatch 
-@RTDNEWS
-@RTDBusiness
-@RTDPolitics
-@RTDStreetBeat 

Broadcasters don't air their bad news
Local TV shows at risk
How to spell 'boooooring' in 140 letters
Welcome To The All New Tobacco Avenue
Jack Goes Forth: The Blogger Is Back
BizSense hires a new reporter
Hollywood publicist, the Hook settle suit
TD now available on the Kindle
A New Era for Account Leadership
The stark realities of 21st century journalism
Daily Lays Off More: Times-Dispatch newsroom takes another hit. 
-Memo
 
“Survival mode” at the Richmond Times-Dispatch: a union statement read to Media General Inc.’s shareholders at the company’s annual meeting
-Suicide and the Times-Dispatch..."Save the Newspaper!" Anonymous challenged

New Media & The Virginia Association of Museums
Random Richmond Thoughts
Is the Newspaper Industry a Buyer's Market?
ThinkFastMoveFaster.com Features Surfing Athlete...Launches New Chemo Brain eBook Guide
-ThinkFastMoveFaster.com | Twitter 

Richmond.com Launch Party
Floricane's Newsletter Updates and Successful Storytelling
Media Twits: Social Media Club chapter launches in Richmond | +4
featuring @codearachnid @DougMeacham @dwlumpkin @gatewood5000 @jmlumpkin @jonnew @kamenlee @knownhuman @KSiddall @madmain @maryframer @miketoner @rvabusiness @ShortPump @stevemullen @TrevorDickerson        
-Rewind: SMCRVA

New Richmond Men's Online Resource: The Man's Plan Coming Soon | Twitter
Hard Questions In Wake of Reputed Health Data Theft...Hackers, complacency threaten prescription database
  

Health records go high-tech
  
State drug database regaining functions after cyberattack...Database hack might lead to drug fraud
 
Hacker's demand: $10M for your prescriptions
| Roanoke Times | Times Dispatch | Washington Post | Virginian Pilot | Washington Times | Fox News | Health Data Management | Information Week 
-Hacking of prescription database may lead to headaches 
-Is your privacy anyone's priority? 

VCU Brandcenter and the 4A's Present: The Future of Account Leadership  
-Register 

MAVA's Capital Connection Coming Soon To DC...TECH cocktail DC 5 Coming Soon 
The need for customized social marketing
Virginian-Pilot's Va. Beach staff moves to new offices
Richmonders mad about another syndicated morning show
-Bring Back Melissa and Sid to Q94 Mornings Petition
-Listener revolt over Clear Channel layoffs 
 
Clear Channel job cuts a symptom of radio ad woes 

WordCamp
-Track #wcrva
-Organizer's Re-cap (Matt Walters)
-Six Degree’s of Separation…
-
Going WordCamping This Weekend
 
Presentations:
-Security and Hardening 
-Fair Use
-SEO Presentation

Internet Summit 2009 set for November in Raleigh
Citizen Engagement Through Apps for Democracy Community Edition
Resonate Networks launches with $2 million round 
-Resonate Networks

Social Media Club Richmond First Meeting  
Morton's Steakhouse May 7, 2009 5-8 PM SOLD OUT
-Track meeting via #SMCRVA hashtag
-Richmond’s First Social Media Club Event...Social Media V. The People 
-First RVA Social Media Club (SMCRVA) Meeting 
-Richmond Social Media Club – postgame...The birth of the RVA social media club 
-What a day 
-Richmond’s Social Media, In One Room 
-
Big Things Happen in Small Towns
-Social Media Club wrap up 
-Social Media Club Richmond, VA | Twitter: @SMCRVA

New Blog! Wine Conscience | Twitter 
On using hash tags in twitter (think open!)
Newspaper Narcissism (via)
  
The Buzz Bin: Newspapers Are Like Department Stores
  
Newspapers Fight for Survival  
 
Would Independent Papers Survive? 

Twitter takes a road trip
What is Twitter
Darden to Test Amazon’s Kindle DX | AP | Cville | Washington Post
-Is Kindle A Newspaper Savior? Not Quite 
-Why Kindle DX Won't Save Newspapers 
 
Will this Save the Richmond Times-Dispatch? 

The Risks of Facebook
How tweets can tweak business
River Journal founder dies
Innovation in Disruptive Environments
Let's All Welcome Born Ugly Magazine to the Family
-Born Ugly the voice and visual of the everyday skateboarder 

New Richmond Bloggers:
-Paul Goldman: Pandemics R Us: Swine Flu vs Wall Street's Pigs 
-Vic In A Box 

Social Media Case Study: 
The “ease factor”...How does Twitter work? 

Non-profits Leverage Social Networks With Varying Degrees of Success...Another Perspective
Nickel-and-Diming Is Not A Key to the TD's Success 

Why (Richmond Times-Dispatch), Why did you go from have a great online website, to an OK online website, to now having a website with little-to-no news and a horrible navigation system?  

Baltimore Sun reorg just announced
  
The Washington Post Company Reports First Quarter Earnings

News Editor Goes Home And Prays Someone Locally Gets Swine Flu
Style Weekly Hiring! (Arts and Culture Editor)
Why Urban Pigeon?
New events section on RVANews
Do Journalists Add Value?
Magazine editor missing on Appalachian Trail...Found 
Q94's Melissa Chase: Extreme Makeover: Life Edition
-Clear Channel lays off in Richmond 
-More Layoffs At Clear Channel; Up To 1,000 People This Time

Candidates utilize Facebook, blogs in a new political era
Dropping Knowledge at New Media Seminars...Rewind: 10 Dead or Dying PR Tactics  
How Many Richmonders Does It Take?
-The South Will Write Again 

T-D Launches Gay Magazine, Then Pulls Out
How suing The New York Times tripped up Rod Smolla, former dean of UR’s law school.
Entertainment magazine aims to fill void in Hampton Roads 
-Veer | Also see SevenCities | TReehouse 

Thinking about Steve Brill's doomed plan to build a pay wall around newspapers. (via
 
The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal, er Twitter: do they have any left? 

New Neighborhood Blogs:
-Randolph West
-Byrd Park
-Coming Soon: Carytown (follow @Carytown)

NY Times: Oprah’s First Words on Twitter: “HI TWITTERS” FEATURING @JephKelley
Reporter Develops Perfect Segue
4.17.09
The New RVA Magazine Emerges...(via
-Full Press Release...features | Trailer
(designed by Brandbuilt)
 
FOUR
-
RVA 4th Anniversary Video: What is RVA?
-Volume 5 Issue 1 (Four Year Anniversary Issue)

Media General reports loss...ad sales fall...TV Station Profit Plunges...freezes pension plan 
Facebook Fatigue
-Are you a twit if you don't want to Twitter?

Daily newspaper woes drag down weeklies
Fair Use, Fair Game
 
Rewind: The Google-AP Flap

The Aggregators/Status Pushers: A Blogroast
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers
-
Outside.in
-Richmond.com's integration of Outside.in | Rewind: The New Richmond.com 

The Daily Press isn't going away, we're adapting as we always have
News Leader press goes silent after tonight's run
Can the Statusphere Save Journalism?
VQR Nominated for 3 Utne Independent Press Awards
Shared Air - Richmond. Come join in
-Shared Air | Twitter 

This is not a newspaper. (CHPN going pulp?)
CRT/Tanaka acquires Livingston Communications 
-CRT/Tanaka
-Livingston Communications

The new Richmond.com (via | broke the story here)
-Revamped Richmond.com aims to reflect community...Press Release
-Richmond.com Feature On Jack Goes Forth (piece)
-exciting news! 
-The New Richmond.com - The Twitterverse Responds 
  
Flashback: Richmond.com 1998-2007 
 
Richmond.com Upgraded
-Richmond.com Sneak Preview | Teaser 2

Also see,
Full Coverage of Times Dispatch Layoffs
Where is The Collegian printed?
Media Insiders Say Internet Hurts Journalism 
-Editor and Publisher

Introducing rvatweets!
-rvatweets (follow @rvatweets
-RVA all atwitter 
-They've Got RVA's Tweets in Their Hand
-Wikis As Aggregators 

  

I Tweet, Therefore, I Am
(follow @MarianeMatera
-A Local Take on Twitter and the Future of Newspapers
 
Tweet Nothings -- Or Valuable New News Source? 
 
Techie sees Twitter as subpar 

New Neighborhood Blog! Byrd Park 
VIRGINIAN PILOT'S BLACK THURSDAY
Pilot to lay off 40, but executives say outlook is brighter | AP 

Kornheiser leaving WaPo next month
U. of Richmond Creates a Wikipedia for Undergraduate Scholars
Now serving!
RVANews Food Section | MealWheel
 

Time for a full-time reporter at RVA News?

A.P. to Take On Web Aggregators...Launching News Industry Campaign To ‘Protect’ News Content 
 
Some questions related to Google News and the Associated Press 
 
The Slow Erosion of Google Search 
 
Google in the middle

Get new customers by invading ‘social media’ 
 
Social marketing and the art of self promotion
  
Metro Business section gets revamped
BLACK THURSDAY
Richmond Times-Dispatch eliminates 31 open positions and lays off 59 employees...Large round of layoffs...Hatchet Falls Deep
-More: Editor and Publisher (pre-story) | AP | Richmond.com | RVANews | Virginian Pilot | WRVA (audio) 
 
Bleeding Ink: The newspaper may reinvent itself, but it shouldn’t imagine for a moment that it’s going to reinvent its readers or their town. 
-Bustard's Homage to the TD Is a Miss
  
Early Early Retirement  

MP3: WRVA Interview with Tom Silvestri (courtesy of Style Weekly)
 
Gary Brookins laid off from Times-Dispatch...Dan Neman, Richmond Times-Dispatch, another critic dispatched
  
Blogger Commentary
-Buttermilk and Molasses: Times-Dispatch Cuts Staff Again...More Thoughts on the Times-Dispatch's Cuts 
-The Lost Art of the City: Beginnings and Endings at the RTD 
-Pop Culture Rodeo: Unhappy Endings 
-Shared Air: Media General euthanizes Times-Dispatch. What’s next? 
-SlantBlog: More RT-D staff cuts 
-Take Another Road to Another Time: The Long, Slow Death of the Times-Dispatch 
-Tech-media-tainment: Newspaper death spiral: Could it be a self-fulfilling prophecy? 
-Virginia Tomorrow
-Why the Richmond Times-Dispatch is Dying: Less is Less 
 
All A-Twitter
-Another round of newsroom layoffs happening today at Richmond Times-Dispatch. You don't want to get called to a meeting with Glenn Proctor (a couple of hours before the paper broke its own story) 
-The RTD is highlighting print-edition-only articles, apparently as a "feature"
-Get your early look at the *new* richmond.com now... 
-Twitter's New Search Tools Could Help Journalists Track Beats, Trends 

Martin Agency's Mike Hughes on "Why We Need Newspapers"
-Mike, News-gathering is not Newspapers. 

Richmond Ad Club Winners 
-Madison + Main president named Ad Person of the Year; The Martin Agency also wins big 
-Richmond Show recognizes best of local advertising 

NYT Co. Threatens Shut Down of 'Boston Globe'...Boston Globe Reports Death Threat —Its Own...a Negotiating Tactic?
New York Times Invites Developers to 'Hack the News' with New API
Can Former Newspaper Employees Invent a Brave New News Model?
Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption) (via
 
As newspapers disappear, so does nation's link to real journalism 
 
The 100 Year Flood for Newspapers (via
 
Social Journalism: Past, Present, and Future 

Google Chief to Address Newspaper Execs at Annual Conference 
New Times Dispatch Twitter @RTDNEWS to replace @inrichonline?
Media General Goes with Zillow's Search Technology...Newspapers Begin to Use Zillow | Press Release | 
 
Web site aims to help potential home buyers 
-Virginia Homeowners Alliance 

Del. Morrissey sues Style Weekly for $10.35 million...Morrissey Files Suit Against Style Weekly 
RTD Hosts Political Yard Sale
The Story on Personal Branding + Social Media
Chapter (11) and Verse: Details on Five Major Newspaper Companies That Have Declared Bankruptcy 
WTVR swapped to Local TV Holdings
Jon's PR 1.5 Tips Hat, Faces Forward
Carmax, Twitter, and the open conversation (via)
-@CarMaxChris 

It's Hard to Be Objective When Newspapers Die
Print Newspaper Ad Revenues Plunged Record 17.7% In 2008, NAA Says
Facebook at Work
-David Saunders Facebook 
Old People Are On The Internet!
10 Newborn PR Tactics
Social marketing....not optional?
Washington Post to Offer New Buyouts to Employees
2008 VPA News, Editorial & Photo Contest Winners | Full Database (for local winners, put "Richmond" in search field)
 
Editor and Publisher: State Press Association Awards 'Virginian-Pilot,' 'News & Advance,' Others  
 
Gov. Gerald L. Baliles speech 
 
Awards and Apprehension  
 
Thumping Their Chest Roundup: Bristol Herald Courier | Daily News-Record | Daily Press | The Daily Progress | The Hook | The News & Advance | News Virginian | Northern Virginia Daily | Register & Bee | Style Weekly | Times Dispatch | Virginian Pilot 

Richmond Good Life's Complete Guide to Twitter in Richmond VA
-All of Richmond Is a'Twitter 
 
How Not To Use Twitter 

Media General to reorganize divisions (press release)
-Media General Expanding Tampa Model to Entire Company 

Gannett Orders Second Round of Furloughs
Questioning the Motives and Bias of Prominent Newspaper Critics
The Haynes way: Be masters of the big sale 
Pew’s 2009 State Of The Media (via
Paul Harvey was the Apostle of Main Street
Good News Is Based In Virginia
-Goodnewsnetwork.org

What makes local radio work: An interview with former Q-94 GM Phil Goldman
VQR named finalist for two National Magazine Awards 
-The Virginia Quarterly Review

Fan of the Fan
-New community news site for The Fan

WaPo Help Wanted: Richmond Correspondent
Media General In Focus:
So long, inRich.com | Coming soon: the new Richmond.com (Facebook Announcement)
From the new Richmond.com users can expect a jam-packed events calendar, complete restaurant and dining news and a local point-of-view on daily life.  
 
Newspaper Needs Some News...I Save the Paper
 
Times-Dispatch Freedom of Information reporting 
-FOI laws help Times-Dispatch get details on Tech massacre...Monroe Scandal 
-Checking up on the public right to know
-'Sunshine Week' Begins: States Still Lag on Online Records
-Study finds Va. posts many public records online (Sunshine Week Survey
 
No salary increase in 2008 for head of Media General (Richmond BizSense)...Media General board nominates newcomer

The Onrushing Death (by Stupidity) of the Times-Dispatch
  
Media General Will Close Washington Bureau
(Press Release | E&P

the BIG RVA Twitter List!
  
Also see RichmondWiki's List

Lean times force Roanoke TV stations to eliminate jobs
Social Networking’s New Global Footprint
Columbia J-School’s Existential Crisis
 
'State of Journalism' Report: Disoriented, Not Dying 
 
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable 
-We are witnessing a journalism revolution (via

NYT’s Sulzberger Admits Need For More Paid Content 
'Washington Post' Axes Weekday Biz Section 
Brave New Word Monthly Indepedent Newspaper to Launch in Charlottesville March 19th 
The 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America 
-Newspapers: Still knock-knock-knockin' on Heaven's door 
-Daily News CEO slams 'baseless' online report: 'Every so-called fact is wrong' 

Can Media Take Tips from Twitter? Techmeme's Experience as Case Study
10 Ways Newspapers are Using Social Media to Save the Industry
The Free Lance-Star's new managing editor putting accent on local news 
 
Why global is the new 'local'
-Local News Must Become MORE Local 
Rickey Wright
Intro...The Essence of Rickey

News & Messenger moves printing to Richmond
Sex, Lies and General Tso's Pizza
T-D Only Cares about Old People
For Twitter CEO, Well-Orchestrated Accidents
  
Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users? 

Free speech groups back blogger
 
Rewind:
Subpoena-ville: Blogger Jaquith served in publicist’s case
...Slap happy? After Hook suit, man rattles another saber

Publicist files defamation suit against The Hook
-
The Hook Sued for Defamation 
-
Senior’s star: Buckingham publicist sues the Hook 


Media reports bad news, hides its own
WHRO awaits word on state budget's allocation
Local Media New to Twitter
-@cbs6 (re-active) 
-@MChaseQ94 
-@mix1037
-@newsleaderNOW...Do you Twitter? 

NY Times The Local
-New York Times' Invades (My) Home Turf 
-NYT Gets Hyperlocal; Community Sites Planned For NY, NJ Neighborhoods...E&P 
-
We do it better than the New York Times  
Media General cuts two North Carolina papers to two days a week
Washington Post's Mea Culpa
Bloggers Can't Fill the Gap Left by Shrinking Press Corps...Under Weight of Its Mistakes, Newspaper Industry Staggers...In Baltimore, No One Left to Press the Police... 
Reaction:
-Newspapers: Adapt Or Die...The Washington Post Is Afraid Of Change
-If We Lose the News, Could We Gain an Advocate? 
-Investigative journalism: First casualty of the Net? 

How Big Media Misses the Biggest Stories and Some More Stories They Will Miss


Problems, promise for papers predicted
Journalism on the Brink | Part II 
Newsday eyes end to free Web content...E&P
Between Rock and a Really Hard Place
The Washington Post Company Reports 2008 and Fourth Quarter Earnings
Local
-
Inbox: Farewell for Now (Port Folio Weekly) 
-Local journalists weigh in on the future of news 
 
National
-The parent company of The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News filed for bankruptcy protection
-
San Francisco (Chronicle) Goes First 
-'Rocky Mountain News' to Close After Friday Edition...Staffers React...Denver Post is sad and happy...Final 'Rocky' Appears...Banner Reads, 'Stop the Presses'...RIP Rocky Mountain News 

Journalists Squeezed Out in Media Belt Tightening

Fini: WaPo goes Book World-less


The Media Landscape: Today and Tomorrow
-Advertising vs. News Smackdown 
Top 30 Global News Sites, By Unique Visitors
Virginian-Pilot to lay off 30 more, close Mix and Port Folio
-E&P
More Clear Channel Cuts?
Pro Blogging: A Panel Discussion w @arnoldkim @jephkelley @thisyounghouse
-
Blogging for a living (really) 
-
TWITTER RECAP
No Furlough From Pain At Media General 
-
'Tampa Tribune,' 'Richmond Times-Dispatch' Parent Orders 10-Day Furloughs 
-
Belt-tightening in media squeezes more workers 
-
Official Press Release...TD Article (How he writes this without being snarky?) 
-
...perhaps would like to write for lunch money for CHPN? 
-
Why Newspapers Can't Make Money on the Internet...Part II: Newspapers Must Evolve...and Right Now 
Young Broadcasting Files Under Chapter 11 (WRIC 8 Owner) 
-
Press Release 
In tough times, The Free Lance-Star keeps faith in its future
The Charlottesville Twitter Community: An Ethnography of Digital Insanity
Top 30 Newspaper Web Sites See a Rise in Uniques
State funding for public TV, radio on chopping block
Are Virginia Bloggers Journalists?
Forget Micropayments -- Here's a Far Better Idea for Monetizing Content
Roanoke Times rolls out changes
Area stations to switch to digital on Tuesday
  
FCC Says Some Stations Can't Switch Feb. 17 
TwitterGate
@JeffFrederick: Big news coming out of Senate: Apparently one dem is either switching or leaving the dem caucus. Negotiations for power sharing underway. 
-
Social Media Saves Senate For Democrats...Huff Post 
-
Va. GOP Chair Out ... Wife May Be In? 
The Shorty Awards: Why Nerds Hate Twitter
 
Surviving the Drama of the Twitter Awards
 
-
From the desk of @madmain 
-Twitter Recommendation: @madmain 
 
Social Media Experts Gather in Richmond, VA for New Media Seminar 
-
New Media Seminars 
 
 

Twitter? It’s What You Make It 
 
Newspapers Remain Essential to Large and Engaged Audience (TOM SILVESTRI President and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Baltimore Sun to move staff from suburban bureaus 
Time Cover: How to Save Your Newspaper 
-
A Penny for Your News
-
Battle Plans for Newspapers 
-
The writing is on the paywall 
-
'Time' To the Rescue for Newspapers? 
-
More Ideas for Saving Newspapers: Flavored Ink? Page One Girls? 
-
Isaacson Discusses 'Saving Newspapers' Story on 'Daily Show' -- Stewart Proposes Adding Drugs to Newsprint 
 
Rewind: End Times
 
Pull the Plug on Free Content for a Week, Blogger Advises Newspapers  
How Niche Bloggers Fill Gaps Left by Local Newspapers, Alt-Weeklies
-Buttermilk and Molasses
-
Not Larry Sabato 
2008 Richmond Blog Awards: The winners!
-
The Checkout Girl | Acceptance Speech
-
10 South Boulevard 
-
Tobacco Avenue | Acceptance Speech 
-Posts:
RVANews: Live blogging a mayoral forum | Tobacco Avenue: NBC12 anchor Gene Cox pissed he didn’t make Style’s Power List 
Judy Woodruff and the "broken" journalism business model

-
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Journalism 
The Web: Why Obama Won? 
The Museum of Me
"No, honey, the newspaper isn't dead. It's just sleeping."
Batten Sr., two others honored for dedication  
Va. Senator @MarkWarner Warming Up to Twitter
-Other Legislators: @RobWittman @Randy_Forbes @EricCantor (via)
Media General reports quarterly net loss; suspends dividend...TV stations post profit...loses $85.5M in 4Q 
-
Earnings Call Transcript  
 

Lunch with T-D Guy (Executive Editor Glenn Procter)

Subpoena-ville: Blogger Jaquith served in publicist’s case
Love Broadcasting: Reaching Richmond and the World
'Pilot 13 News' to sign off after nearly 12 years on air
Folding Baltimore Examiner Means an Infusion for Washington
Richmond Blog Awards: Let the voting commence!
-
Richmond Good Life Endorses... 
-
Buttermilk and Molasses: Me for Richmond Weblog Class President 
-
The Checkout Girl: /sentimentality 
-
Jack Goes Forth: RVA Blah Awards 
-
Tobacco Avenue: Vote
-RVANews Readers Nominate 10SBoulevard.com For Award
Time Spent on Newspaper Sites Drops in December 
Landmark newspapers give 5-day furloughs 
-
Recession brings changes at the Roanoke Times
-
Virginian-Pilot will give workers unpaid days off to cut costs 
The Roanoke Times: Ethical guidelines for social media 
Times-Dispatch reorganizes departments...Changes at the T-D  
Toward a more Populist Times-Dispatch?   
C-Ville Weekly: Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
Can it be true, is PoMo dead?
 
Save Richmond Hacked
New Style Weekly YouTube Channel
Blogging Circle of Life:
-
The Resurrection of Urban Hayride 
-
Caramelized OpiNIONS Scaling Back Blogging, Sorta 
Clear Channel lays off 1,850 across U.S.
WRNL, WRVA, WBTJ, WRVQ, WRXL and WTVR 
Media General suspends its 401(k) match program
Extra, extra! Newspapers print inaugural editions
Slap happy? After Hook suit, man rattles another saber 
Doswell Man Proud Owner of 25 years of Tiny Newspaper Receipts 
Style Weekly Debuts First Video Podcast: 
A Local Poet's Civil Rights Tribute 

Tom Wolfe on the Death of Newspapers — in 1978
Urge overkill? New mag born as others die
-Urge Magazine
BloggingBartender.com
Blog Awards!!!

Style Weekly to hold circulation steady
 
Tom Silvestri, President and Publisher of the Times Dispatch: Our Value Remains Strong: A Year-end Message
The History of Buttermilk & Molasses
'NYT,' Most Others in U.S. Media, Silent as Israel Invades
Online Or Bust: Why 2009 May Be The Nail In Newspapers’ Coffins
More Newspapers Sharing Content -- Cutting Competition
USA Today Will Be Sold On Amazon’s Kindle
JPG Magazine Folds, And With It A Radical Idea In Publishing
Longtime WHRO producer dies at age 62
Landmark sues over dispute with Cox about publications
TD News Editor Andrew C. Taylor III retires from Times-Dispatch
What is the (Times Dispatch's) Strategy Here?
Government aid could save U.S. newspapers, spark debate
Daily Progress building soon will go on market
Best of Richmond Blogs 
-Seeing the Tobacco Avenue logo smacked across the top of inRich.com makes me smile. And laugh very very hard
-Rewind: Magellan expresses frustration over navigating inRich.com...Times-Dispatch Print Circulation Increasing With Launch Of Shit-Awful New Web Site 
 
Open Challenge To The Richmond Times Dispatch
 
Best of This, Best of That. Everyone Loves a Weblog These Days...

Local Sites Clamor for Local Writers
-
Help Wanted: RVANews 
-
Help wanted: River District News, et al 
The Democratic blog "Raising Kaine" is set to close, leaving the Web open for the GOP. 
Virginia Blogs mentioned:
-
Raising Kaine
-
Bearing Drift
-
Vivian Paige 
Publicist files defamation suit against The Hook
-
The Hook Sued for Defamation 
-
Senior’s star: Buckingham publicist sues the Hook 
Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Source
The New York Times Company Reports November Revenues
Washington Post and Baltimore Sun to Share Content | E&P
Leaner Times Lead To Lower Standards For Online Ads? Perish The Thought
Big Gains Among Top 30 Newspaper Web Sites
Va. Pilot names Donald Luzzatto new editor of editorial page (Dennis Hartig retiring)
 
WaPo's Jim Brady resigns (Official Statement | Paid Content)...Digital-Print Integration: The Fast Track
 
Editor Franklin Steps Out of the (Baltimore) 'Sun' for Teaching Post  
Newspaper Shuns Web, and Thrives  
GateHouse sues NYT Co. over local websites 
Collusion Solution?
-How to save the newspaper industry (via)
-
Newspapers can’t keep distributing content for free on Web...THEY SHOULD COLLUDE  
Huffington Post Blasted For Stealing Content  
Newspapers Suddenly Adapt To Socal Media; Nearly 60 Percent Offer User-Gen Content
Why is the Richmond Times-Dispatch Lifting Photos from Flickr?
Rethinking Richmond Magazine
Channel 12 lays off 7, including Hamlin, Lepley, Richardson
-Out with the Old on Channel 12 
-Death, Taxes, Gene, Sabrina, Jim and Ben?
-NBC12 website silent about story as of 12-17,930pm
-NBC12 Staff Bios

Your Guide to Alternative Business Models for Newspapers 
-No Magic Potion For Ailing Newspapers, But A Cocktail Of Remedies Might Help 

Tools to Engage Young Adults in News Make Use of Facebook 
-NewsMixer: An Innovative Community News Framework

InRich Is the New RVANews?
RVA Blogs: clean up your act! A few friendly suggestions
-
What's Wrong With RVA Blogs?... 
 
Retorts:
-
Removed Blog response: Screw 'em if they can't take a joke 
-RVA Blogs Is... Waaaaaahhhhhhh!
RVA Snooze
Are bloggers & social networks killing the big shows?
News-oriented Websites Have a Future
Daily newspapers on life-support
-Read all about it: newspapers are done for 
Who Will Report the News?
What's killing newspapers is the same thing that killed the slide rule. (via
The Death of the Times-Dispatch (ex-employee's POV)
 
An Obit for the T-D  
 
Media General Reports November 2008 Revenues
  
Times-Dispatch website quickly improves...but steals our colors   

The Times-Dispatch is about to raise its Sunday rate to $2/copy 
 
Richmond, come on. 
 
Richmond Good Life's Special Coverage of New and Old Media
This blog is twitterfied
 
Filtering Twitter, One Tweet at a Time
  
Tim O'Reilly Talks Twitter on Science Friday  
 

Ways to Monetize Twitter

  
TechCrunch Coverage of New Apps: So How Much Time Do You Waste On Twitter? | The Notorious Sam Sethi Launches His Latest Venture, Twitblogs. | Inevitably, Twitter Profile Pics Turned Into HotOrNot Game | Twitter Humiliates MySpace 
 
Last Week's Twitter Coverage

Knight Foundation Funds Four Online Community News Sites
-What does ‘online first’ mean in your newsroom? (via
New Hearst Newspapers President: 'Tough Decisions' Ahead (100 Days of Change)
Bold Transformation of Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News Lead Nation and Industry With Expanded Digital Offerings; Launch of New Magazine; Colorful, Easy-to-Use Newsstand Editions 
-
Analysts Ask: Detroit Plan a 'Big Step' -- But Not Enough? 
-
Former 'Freep' Publisher Meriwether: Delivery Cuts Good and Bad 
-
CNN: Detroit newspapers to end daily home delivery 
-
Stung by rising costs and shrinking advertising revenue 
-
Live-Blogging the Detroit Press Conference: 200 Workers To Be Cut, But Commitment to News Excellence, More  
Size Doesn’t Matter: An Analysis Of Online News and Political Sites
Hyperlocal Content Network Outside.In Adds Funding
Interview: New NYT.com GM Denise Warren: Tip-toeing Into Aggregation With Guarded Optimism
Floricane, a NEW Creative Facilitation company
WUSA Moves to One-Person News Crews
Digg'n' All That the Web Has to Offer
A Blogger Walks Into A Bar...
How to Use Twitter as a Twool
 
50 Ways to Use Twitter for Business (via)
  
The true meaning of Twitter
 
Writing My Twitter Etiquette Article: 14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely (via)
 
Twitter as a Conversation Platform...Continued 
  
New Frontiers of Connectedness: The Case for “Twitter Conversations” 
 
Top Ten Folks You Shouldn't Follow on Twitter
 
Twibes: Follow The Leader 

An advance copy of the Washington Post's reorganization plan
-Graham: Would Borrow For Great Asset But Wouldn’t Drown Company In Debt 
-
Weymouth Probes Future of 'Wash Post' 
-
Save the Whales! 
Media General Presents at UBS Global Media & Communications Conference
(self-article)
-Media General debt pressures ease with new terms... bargains with creditors...reducing debt load by 19%
 

Times-Dispatch lays off 18 employees

-
Editor and Publisher
 
 
Beyond Tribune: More Bankruptcies Possible?
Gannett Chief: We Know How to Manage Through Bad Times | Gannett’s ContentOne Ties Local Content With National Ads 
NPR Laying Off 64 Employees, 7 Percent of Staff; Cancels Two Programs 
-
Press Release
Urban Views Weekly was created to celebrate black Richmond. So why is it so secretive? 
-Urban Views Weekly
-Rewind: Free Press Editor Accuses Ukrop's of Racial Bias 

In Maryland You Might Have No Anonymity As Commenter 
Correction...Read, Drink, & Be Merry Still Alive, too!
The Gray Lady:
-CEO: Family Says NYTCo Not For Sale; Fundraising Won’t Include About.com 
-The Newspaper Bubble, Too, Has Burst 
-NYT Co.: No Plans to Sell -- Will 'Weather' 2009 
-New York Times: Our Digital Ads “Could Be Under Great Stress”  
-New York Times Lowers Expectations—Again; Considering Financing Alternatives 
-Oh, Great: New York Times (NYT) Online Business Falling Apart Now, Too 

The New RVANews Re-design
-RVA News Has Arrived 
-It is disappointing to see the community weblogs get nudged into a less visible corner 
Tribune Co. files for bankruptcy protection 
-Note from the Daily Press' Publisher on Tribune Co. filing for bankruptcy protection 
-What went wrong?...Zell could recoup investment, but employees likely won't 
-Zell's memo to employees about Tribune bankruptcy 
-Message to Advertisers
-Bankruptcy Filing
-Press Release
 
What happens to Cubs? | Free From Tribune’s Bankruptcy Filing, Cubs Proceed as Usual  

Media Reaction: 
-
Editor and Publisher | Inside the Newsroom
-Paid Content | Its Debt to Media Companies | Sam Zell’s Plan D: It’s All About Buying Time 
-Businesweek
-Chicago Reader
-Chicago Sun Times
-Industry Standard
-NY Times
-Recovering Journalist
-Va. Gazette
 
 
Rewind: Sam Zell
At Last: Pulitzer Prizes Expand to Include Web-Only News Outlets 
How to Start A Local Media Company: Threaten Local Bloggers by Edible Communities, Inc.
The end of the road for Coming South of the James: Rebooted? | Twitter Announcement
  
The end of the experiment for Carver & Jackson Ward News, River District News, and Hills & Heights? 
New Bacon's Rebellion Editors (Thomas Jefferson Public Policy Institute) Censoring Long-time Member?
The Bacon's Rebellion E-zine and the King James Bible 
-
Could Bloggers Have Stopped Hitler? 
TimesDispatch.com Launching New, More Interactive, Site...Opens up anon comments...
-
Graphic
TobaccoAvenue Publisher Dies in Fiery Plane Crash ;)
-Correction 
The New RVANews Re-design
-RVA News Has Arrived 
The end of the road for Coming South of the James: Rebooted? | Twitter Announcement
  
The end of the experiment for Carver & Jackson Ward News, River District News, and Hills & Heights? 
New Bacon's Rebellion Editors (Thomas Jefferson Public Policy Institute) Censoring Long-time Member?
The Bacon's Rebellion E-zine and the King James Bible 
TimesDispatch.com Launching New, More Interactive, Site...Opens up anon comments...
-
Rewind: The New TimesDispatch.com
Content and Its Discontents
The Future of Richmond Media Today?
  
Do or do not. There is no try. 
 
Sure, Newspapers Could Just Die A Painful Death; But Here’s Another Option...Go not-for-profit 
Social Media Changing Journalism and PR
Ted Leonsis Hits 5,000 Facebook Friends...or maybe not
-
Post: No More Facebook Friends for Ted Leonsis | Times 
New citizen journalism opportunities
-
Open Assignments 
 
South of the James: Rebooted: Last Call (for writers)... 
 
Whither the Weblogs?

Blogging is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream 
-
What Blogger Should Do (via
JMLumpkin's newest GeoDomain Venture!
-
Alexandria.com
Carpooling meets Twitter: Will Generation Y change the face of commuting?
Sale process for The Virginian-Pilot is put on hold
  
Company says Landmark is infringing on its patent 

Newspaper sales fell almost $2B in one quarter
-
Stats  
-
Yes, It is Bad 


POWER BLOGS...
Dept of Blogiology 101: Richmond
-in vino veritas 
-
Buttermilk & Molasses/North Richmond News 
-
10 S Boulevard
   
Virginia's Most Influential Political blogs
-J’s Notes Is “Influential” 
New Media, Social Media and Your Small Business: Pay Attention or Pay Too Much 
 
CMOs aren’t interested in social networking, but you should be
Bad in So Many Ways
  
Craigslist or the Economy? Where are the Jobs 
Why The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan Blogs
  
Why Tim O'Reilly Loves Twitter 
-
Twitter Evolution 
Newspaper sales fell almost $2B in one quarter
-
Stats  
-
Yes, It is Bad 
Ten Ways to Keep a Newspaper Strong
10SBoulevard Universally Praised! 
-
Why The Richmond Times-Dispatch is Dying 
-
Tobacco Avenue
Times-Dispatch Print Circulation Increasing With Launch Of Shit-Awful New Web Site Spit out your coffee funny!
Chesterfield Observer circulation tops 54,00...a 15.3 percent increase 
Quadrangle Foursquare Conference
-
As Media Shatters, Jeff Jarvis Is Ideologue Seer of New Age; ‘Journalists? They’re Community Organizers!’ Says Professor; ‘He and I Edged Closer,’ Says Bill Keller; ‘Bullshit,’ Says Jarvis
-
Sam Zell's Sell: The former real estate mogul discusses his approach to newspapers
...The New Boss’s Salty Language Raises Eyebrows at His Papers 
-
Want To Hear What Katie Couric Said Yesterday?...Shhhhhh! Media, Tech Moguls Meeting Today. Don’t Tell Anyone 
-Quadrangle to Close Media-Focused Fund
-2007 Conference

Media General fills key leadership roles
Newspapers and many magazines, lusting after younger readers, seem to have adopted a take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward older readers
Here it is, the new RichmondMagazine.com
-What's New for Richmond Magazine
Print Media Deathwatch?
-
Blood in the Water 
 
Watching the Times struggle (and what you can learn)
Editorial page editor of The Virginian-Pilot to retire 
 

Virginian-Pilot cuts 125 jobs, plans to reduce paper's size
-'Virginian-Pilot' Cutting 10% of Work Force...Dear readers, Link is closing 
Cindy Woods 1956-2008
-Learning Daily

Style Weekly on Twitter
The New TimesDispatch.com
-Livejournal: Local online media
-
Rederederederedesign 
-Times-Dispatch Print Circulation Increasing With Launch Of Shit-Awful New Web Site
Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
Charlottesville Photographer Matt Rosenberg Threatens Spicy Bear Media and Demands $2,500
Media General Reports September 2008 Revenues
Media General shares take beating
...Media General shares down to $3 
 
Media General share price falls another 20 percent as hedge fund pulls stakes
 
NY Times, Media General fall on Harbinger's moves
 
Newspapers' Credibility Problem -- The Financial One  
Venerable Style Editor, Rozanne Epps, Dies
-
Remembering Rozanne Epps 
-
My Secret Mentor 
 
-
Brave Engagement 

South of the James: Rebooted Wants You 
 
Richmond Bizsense Wants You

R.I.P., Richmond.com
-
Former Editor Mourns the Rebirth of Richmond.com
-Thumbs Down
-Richmond.com, Meet Corporate Overlords 
-
Special Report: Richmond.com Sold!
Newspapers Jettisoning Top Talent to Cut Costs NY Times columnist able to weave Circuit City case study to Media General

American Press Institute CEO Summit on Saving an Industry in Crisis Reston, Va.
-
API Summit Concludes: Industry in 'Crisis,' Needs Outside Help 
-
List of API "Crisis Summit" Attendees (Locals: Michael G. Abernathy, president Landmark Community Newspapers, Reid Ashe, EVP, COO Media General, Robert Dickey, president U.S. community publishing, Gannett, Maurice Jones, publisher, The Virginian-Pilot, Michelle Krans, SVP, strategy, development, Gannett, Thomas McDevitt, president The Washington Times, Thomas Silvestri, president and publisher Richmond Times-Dispatch) 
-
Rewind: The Push for Innovation in Richmond, Va. 
-
Related: How Industries Survive Change. If They Do 
Murdoch Boyer Lecture: The Golden Age of Freedom 
-
WSJ.com’s Third Super-Premium Tier Coming? 
-
Murdoch to media: You dug yourself a huge hole 
-
Murdoch to 'Cynics': Newspapers Will Survive  
-
Complacency rather than competition hurts media 
-
Murdoch to Aussies: embrace technology 
-
Murdoch To Hacks: Quit Whining 
 
More in this Lecture series:
Antony Loewenstein: The Blogging Revolution
South of the James: Rebooted Wants You 
RVA, WINNER of 2 AGD AWARDS for 2008
-Three Cheers (and a Couple of Awards) for RVA Magazine! 

The Virginian-Pilot, affiliated companies considering layoffs 
South of the James Returns!...Rebooted  
-A Blogger Returns 
Virginia Classified Papers (aka the Trading Post) Sold to 'Hopewell News' Publisher 
Media General announces purchase of Richmond.com (Final Edition)
-Human side of the purchase:
On Richmond.com and my last week… | Who Do You Think You Are? (Hell hath no fury...)
-
Purchase of Richmond.com...Readers weigh in on the good, the bad and the ugly of Richmond.com  
-
Richmond Times-Dispatch Parent Buys Richmond.com
-
Media General buys Richmond.com...InRich pulling from Richmond.com already
-
Virginia Business
-
Crazy news about Richmond.com this is where the inside gossip is happening (comments section)
-People Talking to Each Other
-
Something about that name? 
-
Domain Is Everything, and the TD's Got Itself A New Domain...Richmond.com Requiem…What’s next for Richmond area media?
-
Richmond.com purchased by Media General 
-
Eaten by a Shark! 
-
Area Blogger Hoping Media General Buys Him Next...Damn those unruly kids
-
Richmond.com Twitter | Inrich Twitter | Twitter Search Richmond.com 

Was the Writing on the Wall?
-Richmond.com's CTO: Moving on to different things… (October 14) 
-R’Biz fading into the night 

Landmark Suspends Sale of Properties, Keeps 'Virginian-Pilot' on the Block 
NEW STYLE WEEKLY ONLINE LAUNCHED!
-NOW WITH COMMENTS
-Durnit, I have to update old links

 

New Richmond Magazine Re-Design Looms, too (11-24)
Slaughtering the Cash Cows a Bit Too Early
 
Carriers canned as Post farms out local delivery 
 

Condé Nast Cuts Focus on 2 Magazines
...The End of This Blog 
R’Biz fading into the night
Circulation decline follows U.S. trend; However, T-D's print and online audience is stable, paper says
 
Deputy Editor Bart Hinkle has been awarded the International Policy Network’s 2008 Bastiat Prize for Journalism  
 
Observations On The Richmond Times-Dispatch and Brick Weekly 
Washingtonpost.com relaunches its City Guide as the "Going Out Guide"
-
Going Out Guide   
 
Grab the Official Widget of Washington, DC! 
Most Major Papers Continue Circ Decline 
 

Newspaper web site audience increases sixteen percent in third quarter to 68.3 million visitors
 
 

How The New York Times (NYT) Can Save Itself

My Insight: You Must Be Nuts...Times-Dispatch Goes Over the Deep End
 
What Newspapers Can Learn From the Tech Industry
 
The Traditional Banner Ad Business May Be In Even More Trouble Than You Think...Counting Clicks: Now A Mainstay ...Let's Be Serious: Online Display Ads Will Fall Sharply In 2009...Woe to Web 2.0 Start-Ups: Too Few Ads to Go Around 
   

Earnings: Media General Reports Higher Q3 Earnings Aided By Politics, Olympics; Narrows Digital Loss
...TV Boosts Media General...Newspaper revenue continues to fall at MG 
 

Advertising Online: Why Advertising Dollars Will Move Away from Traditional Mediums and Onto the Internet
 
 
Online Display Ad Prices Fall To Lowest Point This Year  
 
Newspapers’ Web Revenue Is Stalling  
 

Dark times for Web ads: Analysts cut forecasts

Monroe Ward is kaput
Washington City Paper Seeks Journalism Bankruptcy
 
In the Media World, Only Constant is Change
Mass Comm Week '08 | Press Release
-
VCU forum takes up future of news media
F* an alt-weekly. Become and Alt-monthly
Richmond Wiki! | Blog
Editor James Bacon Leaves Richmond.com's R'Biz for Boomer Project
-
Boomer Project
-RBiz loses its pilot
-
Another News Blogger Fades Away 
-
I'll Be Back  
Richmond blogger being sued or punked?...Update
Rewind: The Wild, Wild Web; How do libel laws apply to bloggers, citizen journalists?
-Johnny Law Focuses on Bloggers 
The downward side of the local media curve
 
Washington City Paper Owner Files for Bankruptcy
-
Washington City Paper  
Check out the Times Dispatch's new Things to Do guide | Things to Do
The knowledge economy craves information more than ever, but newspapers and print media are imploding. Where will Virginians get their news in the Internet age?
-The Numerati
-Bacon's Rebellion Last Issue??

Landmark Communications sells online marketer | Q Interactive
Times-Dispatch cries "wolf" over First Amendment
Justice department says Sinclair can't buy WTVR...Investigate that Mark Holmberg! | Media Week | CNNMoney.com | Broadcasting & Cable 
Daily paper stays negative on state of real estate market
Is The T-D Website About to Finally Change?
The Most Powerful Man in Richmond: #1 William Goodwin
Style's Fifth Annual Power List | WRVA Inteview (audio) | Rewind: Buttermilk and Molasses Speculation

A Board Member of Wachovia   

The Most Powerful Woman in Richmond: #9 Allison Weinstein, a trustee at the University of Richmond and President of Weinstein Properties Management

New Media Duo (John Murden of Church Hill People’s News and Ross Catrow of RVABlogs) Split the Coveted 75th Spot!...
Reaction:
-
Buttermilk and Molasses | Popular Not Powerful
-
Made in Richmond 
-
River City Rapids
-
RVANews

What’s missing in Richmond most is what’s missing on Style’s Power List 

Screw the Power Elite

How does Richmond define “powerful”?

Veteran Richmond news anchor Gene Cox has reportedly gone “absolutely apeshit” over his rejection on Style Weekly’s annual Power List...  (WRVA’s Been Had | Gene Cox unfazed | Old Media Is Eating New Media's Pulsating Heart | The RT-D on the TA/WRVA Cox story episode) | HE has a sense of humor...Loves biting monkey stories more than anything else

Jack Goes Forth to crash this party...


Rewiring the Times-Dispatch

Jackess of All Trades

Will online advertising revenues increase enough to offset the decline in print ad sales?

Daily Press Reduces Staff

Ad sales tumble 16% at NY Times...Raises Newsstand Price to $1.50 | New York Times May Face Junk Rating, S&P Warns | Extra! Extra! Credit Concerns at New York Times!


Papers v Blogs Part 2 (Part 1)
Roanoke Times: Bloggers on the take | Duh…..Me noT L!ke bLogs

Roanoke Times “Discovers” Blogging and Is Scared


New Style Weekly Beta via B&M and Style  

Newspapers vs. blogs  
-
Tiny robot has lessons for media - and citizens
-
Newspapers: “Woe is me” 
-
The Virginian Pilot v. Virginia Bloggers

A look at 143 years of Progress-Index history 

Pay more, get less


Media General Consolidates Virginia Dailies' Printing (The Daily Progress and Times-Dispatch) 
Times Dispatch in Trouble... Style Weekly, too...  
| Clarification: Style "Not in Trouble" 

Style's Long Overdue Electronic Upgrade

Los Angeles Times, too


Why I cancelled my Times Dispatch subscription  

J. Stewart Bryan to retire as exec at Media General | Board adds Former Directors Ousted By Harbinger

Final Gift: 23 Cent Dividend

Delicately writing about your boss

Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue


Richmond Bloggers Gain New Powers (Call and Recap)
Richmond's Status As Weblog Capital Builds on Past  

Richmond’s Buzzing Blogosphere | Citizen Journalism: The Professor’s View 

Why a 2nd tier city leads the nation 


A Hotbed of Citizen Journalism Part Two | Part 1

Richmond's Status As Weblog Capital Builds on Past

Community Blogging Center of the Universe?


Henrico County Leader and the Far West End Press close shop

Analysis

Blame it ALL on Craigslist


The Times-Dispatch will publish 16 to 20 fewer pages each week

The Great TD Revamp: Much Ado 

Why can't some newspapers figure out new media?

"I Feel Your Angst"


A Hotbed of Citizen Journalism Part Two | Part 1

Richmond's Status As Weblog Capital Builds on Past

Community Blogging Center of the Universe?


Henrico County Leader and the Far West End Press close shop

Analysis

Blame it ALL on Craigslist


The Times-Dispatch will publish 16 to 20 fewer pages each week

The Great TD Revamp: Much Ado 

Why can't some newspapers figure out new media?

"I Feel Your Angst"


T-D revising newspaper section lineup next week | Launch changes in newspaper next Monday

Honey, I Shrunk the Newspaper

Retooling the News

Laid Off Second Life


Happy Six Month Birthday, River District News!
Media should mix-up and collaborate
Media General versus Harbinger Capital Partners

-The Economist: On the brink; Some of America's most venerable newspapers face extinction, unless they evolve  
-
Classifieds down? Not in Real Estate 
-
Times-Dispatch's circulation falls, Readership increases 
-
National Trends (Top 20)
-
The Worst Investment in America?
-
Executive Editor Glenn Proctor Discusses Ethics 
-
With So Much News, No One Gets It All 
-
Response: Too Much News, They Say
-
Sign o' the NY Times  (Rewind: Hubris)
-
Fortune: Harbinger of things to come in the news business? 
-
More Help with the Noose
-
CLOSURE Part 1: Media General shareholders elect new directors from Harbinger
-
Death by Proxy 
-
Media General Reports First-Quarter 2008 Results 
-
Media General March revenue down on classified ad softness 
-
Calls Tampa Market, Its "Crown Jewel"
-
Board fight a boost to Media General, Shares Up 8%
-
Next Target: The NY Times?
-
Harbinger's Philip Falcone Earned $1.7-billion in 2007 
-
Fortune: Harbinger wins key shareholder support in its proxy battle with Bryan-family controlled Media General
-
Reuters: Gabelli backs Harbinger's Media General slate 
-
Media General To Harbinger: You Just Don't Get Us
-
Rewind: Harbinger Takes Stake in Media General


Dear Richmond Media, Cite your F'ing Sources...

Richmond Magazine: Where Richmond’s news-gatherers get the skinny

When Blogs Do Good


Mea Culpa 1: Media General's Self-Analysis (Intro)

Mea Culpa 2: Media General's Self-Analysis of its Blogs

Washington Post 6, Times Dispatch 0 (List of All Winners)

The Future of the TD...
Why the Richmond Times-Dispatch is Dying Chimes In 

Chesterfield Weekly Chimes In

Washington Post Chimes In


Top Blogging City
 
-
Richmond ranks #1 in community/ citizen journalism (Full Report
-
A medium-sized self-congratulatory moment (AKA “we’re #1″, or, “take that Dallas!”)
-Richmond leading nation in 'citizen journalism' | Richmond a ‘hotbed of citizen journalism’
-Finally -- Richmond Gets First Place (for Weblogging)
-Super-hyper local community blog to launch Thursday

Essential Links

Special Section: Social Media Club Richmond

November 17, 2009
SMCRVA: Political Panel | @smcrva | #smcrva
Moderated by @ryanobles
-@BobMcDonnell ~staff
-@JaredLeopold 
-@jasonkenney 
-@Jaquith 
-@garyreinhardt
 
Recap
-Videos courtesy of @Commonmanfilms 
-By the Tweeple For the Tweeple: Social Media Club of Richmond November Event 
-Social Media in Virginia Politics: @SMCRVA 
-SMCRVA Panel Wrap

Preview
-SMCRVA Presents- Gubernatorial election post-mortem: Tuesday November 17th
-NBC12 Interview w @rvabusiness 
-Related: Style Cover: How Virginia Democrats overestimated the power of Obama and underestimated the importance of independent voters...Online ads in Va. gubernatorial race ‘set the standard’


October 22, 2009
SMC Richmond Potpourri | #SMCRVA
-But I Live In Richmond! by @knownhuman | The Other Side of the Byline and General News 
-Social Media ROI: Real. Local. Measurable. by @NhatPham  
-Social Media APIs: The new language of the web by @busse | SMCRVA Social Media APIs presentation PPT and Excel+Twitter API demo files
 
A Cornucopia of Concepts, Code and Cupcakes   

September 3, 2009: Social Media Club Richmond presents Local Business and Social Media – Is It Working? 
-Moderator @KendallMorris from @theartofimpact
-Tommy Donovan (@richmondcomix)  - Richmond Comix
-Matt Lake (@mrl37) - Wine & Beer Westpark (Blog | Facebook)
-An Bui (@MekongRVA) - MeKong (Facebook)
-AnnMarie Grohs (@Amgrohs) - Morton's
5-7 PM Fuego | Mekong After-Party
-Sponsors: Fuego, The Hodges Partnership (@jonnew), RichmondMom.com (@richmondmom
-Follow @SMCRVA 
-Preview: Beer Drinkin' and Social Media
 
Recap
#smcrva
 
Social Media Club Richmond - Sept 3 Event at Fuego / Mekong ( review) by @dwestjr
 
 
RVA Shout Outs To My Richmond Homies |
Video by @jolieodell
 
I Live With Furry Pranksters (or: September SMCRVA Wrap-up) by @mattjh2 
 
SMCRVA Review: Beer, Eggrolls, and Local Business by @omgwtfrva
  
My very first Social Media Club (RVA) event by @proverbial_ink
 
Social Media Club Richmond: Business Promotions Through Emerging Media by @richmondgrid 


My talks from #SMCRVA and #SM4SC by @gradontripp

Jepson hosts Strategic Leadership and Social Media for Social Good conference July 24 | Live Webcast | Live Blogging
-Social media and nonprofits…before 
-Follow
#sm4sg
-@sm4sg
 
Videos by @urichmond 
-Sandra Peart and Jon Newman...Presentation 
-Progress and Predictions w Keynote Gradon Tripp...
Presentation Slide Show
-Case Studies and Best Ideas Panel (part 1) 
-Case Studies and Best Ideas Panel (part 2)
 
Social media and nonprofits….after…the big opportunity by @jonnew
 
4 Free Places to List Your Richmond Nonprofit by @RichmondWiki  
 
Will Social Media Momentum Build in Richmond?  by
@sarvay
 
Social Media Club Richmond enjoys a night at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on July 23 by @dwestjr
 
A Conversation with Social Media Club Richmond’s Program Director Nathan Hughes


Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations
July 23 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 5:30 PM featuring Boston based @gradontripp  founder of Social Media for Social Change...It’s Gonna Be a Busy Summer  
-Follow
#SMCRVA
-@SMCRVA
-Non-Profits on Twitter
-Rewind: SMCRVA Timeline
 
SMCRVA Summary: Social Media for Social Change...SMCRVA After Party by @OMGWTFRVA
 
Richmond’s Social Media for Social Good by @Richmondmom 
 
Weekend Update With TCG 
by @thecheckoutgirl

Social Media Club Richmond: "New Media and the News"  
Registration Re-Opens on Sun at 6 PM
Tuesday, June 09, 2009 from 5:30-9:00 PM Science Museum of Virginia. Featuring:
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@RachelDePompa | @ryanobles
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@sarvay
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@IanGraham
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@StyleWeekly
-
@BizSense
-Social Media June Forum -- "New Media and the News" -- Selling Out
 
The new networking
(featuring @amgrohs @cunningham_adam @JeffKraus (@GinnyWiz) @jonnew  @johnrhopkins @mavnet @mojoguzzi @Mox_eMediaGirl (@lewisginter) @OverTheEdgeRVA @Richmondmom @sarvay @ScienceMusofVA @spingirl @thisyounghouse @ToddFeldman @VaDOT @VAStateParks)
-Voices on the network 
-Rewind: All A-Twitter...
T-D is Stupid about Twitter  
-The “blogging nun” and others in Richmond’s social media scene
-Social media conference planned 
   
Rewind: Power of Social Media?
Registration for SMCRichmond's June 9 panel event is now open. Don't miss out. 
...
7 hours later...#SMCRVA sold out
-New Media and the News Event Details
 
-Come See Me (and Three Smart People) Pontificate on Social Media 

TRACK #SMCRVA
 
RWW: Social Media Meets Industrial Media at Social Media Club Event Panel by @jolieodell 
Social Media Club, Richmond, VA: Old & New Media Video by @mcptv
-Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 
-Interview w DePompa and Sarvay
-Interview w Graham and Kelley
  
Richmond Social Media Club post mortum
by @jonnew 
  
Oral Sex, Organic Blueberries and Social Media by @MarianeMatera 
 
Unemployed, Day 56: SMCRVA Wrap-Up Edition by @mattjh2
 
SOCIAL MEDIA Club of Richmond - It’s Not Just a Party by @modalinc 
 
NBC12 Recap | 2 by @nbc12   
   
How Social Media like Twitter & Facebook are Influencing Mainstream Media: Nhat’s Interview w NBC12 Rachel DePompa by @nhatpham
 
All the cool kids are doing it by @nickdawson  
 
#smcrva by @RichmondEditor
 
Social media club wrap up by @rvanews
 
Richmond Wiki: SMCRVA by @RichmondWiki
  
Web-Based News Site Reluctantly Embraces Web by @Sarvay

SMCRVA: What I Love about Social Media by @stevemullen
 
Social Media In Da Club by @thecheckoutgirl 

Richmond BizSense and SM, a missed opportunity?...Newman Opens the Right Conversation on News and New Media 
 
Web-Based News Site Reluctantly Embraces Web


Social Media Club Richmond First Meeting  
Morton's Steakhouse May 7, 2009 5-8 PM SOLD OUT
-Track meeting via #SMCRVA hashtag
-Richmond’s First Social Media Club Event...Social Media V. The People 
-First RVA Social Media Club (SMCRVA) Meeting 
-Richmond Social Media Club – postgame...The birth of the RVA social media club 
-What a day 
-Richmond’s Social Media, In One Room 
-
Big Things Happen in Small Towns
-Social Media Club wrap up 
-Social Media Club Richmond, VA | Twitter: @SMCRVA

Media Twits: Social Media Club chapter launches in Richmond | +4
featuring @codearachnid @DougMeacham @dwlumpkin @gatewood5000 @jmlumpkin @jonnew @kamenlee @knownhuman @KSiddall @madmain @maryframer @miketoner @rvabusiness @ShortPump @stevemullen @TrevorDickerson