Media Bullseye Roundtable

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In this episode of the Roundtable, I’m joined by Doug Haslam of Stone Temple Consulting to discuss three topics:

• Facebook’s decision to allow sponsored content, but only from officially verified pages
• Twitter’s decision to prevent U.S. government agencies from having access to commercially available data streams
• Whether new solutions are needed to propel podcast growth

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In this episode of the Roundtable, I’m joined by Jen Zingsheim Phillips of 4L Strategies to discuss the following three topics:

• What Donald Trump’s campaign says about advertising value equivalency
• The proposed acquisition of Tribune by Gannett that would leave one company with 17% of all newspaper subscribers in the United States
• Advice about what you shouldn’t do on social media

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In this episode of the Roundtable, I’m joined by Shel Holtz, principal of Holtz Communication + Technology and co-founder of the FIR Podcast Network, home of the Roundtable, to discuss three topics:

• The “crap trap” that Jim VandeHei says publishers have fallen into with their digital content.
• The role of social sharing in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
• The value of weekly roundup emails and blog posts that curate content from third party sources, including the ones produced by Shel and Scott Monty.

During the show, we also talked about Shel’s upcoming webinar on chatbots.
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In this episode of the Roundtable, I’m joined by Shel Holtz, principal of Holtz Communication + Technology and co-founder of the FIR Podcast Network, home of the Roundtable, to discuss three topics:

• Facebook’s Instant Articles and their potential impact on the news business
• Twitter’s elevation of its Chief Financial Officer to head marketing in the wake of disappointing earnings
• The prospects for live video streaming apps like Meerkat and Periscope

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In this episode of the Roundtable, I’m joined by Doug Haslam of Stone Temple Consulting to discuss three topics:

— The kerfuffle over a UK fashion company’s tweeted photo of their interns.
— Whether Facebook should ban anti-vaccine messaging.
— If the ad-based business model was the Internet’s “original sin”.
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