As mainstream media prepares to adopt water scarcity as its latest cause, we prepare you for the flood of cliché-driven headlines. We could be wrong, but our sixth sense for media trends tells us that the issue of global water scarcity is about to get the attention it deserves through so many magazine covers, nightly [...]
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Water, Water Everywhere. And Nine More Water Scarcity Clichés
August 24th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 3 Comments
How to Blog Like a Journalist. Or, Bridging the Blogger-Journalist Divide.
August 10th, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 7 Comments
There is ongoing tension between old-school reporters and new-school bloggers. What a perfect setup for this post on the principles of good storytelling. Newspapers as we know them will soon cease to exist. The L.A. Times is the nation’s fourth-largest newspaper. Its website posted record traffic in July with 127 million page views, thanks to [...]
GQ: You Can’t Save the Planet
June 22nd, 2008 by Max Gladwell · 4 Comments
GQ magazine writes a green compilation feature with a skeptical tone and some pragmatic advice. We confess that we subscribe to GQ magazine. Otherwise, we probably wouldn’t have see this article. To be clear, though, it’s not something we paid for. The subscription was part of a frequent-flier-mile exchange, where the miles were expiring. And [...]
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