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The Spin Sucks Podcast with Gini Dietrich (album art)

Spin Sucks 173: “No Comment.”

November 24, 2021 by Gini Dietrich Leave a Comment

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In this week’s episode of The Spin Sucks Podcast, Gini Dietrich discusses the complicated nature of background in journalism and what prompted The Verge to update their policy.
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Filed Under: Spin Sucks Tagged With: background, background information, communicators, journalism, policy update, the verge

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Inside PR 536: As newsrooms disappear…

March 18, 2019 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman 2 Comments

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We have some news to break on this week’s Inside PR. Gini and Martin are going to be working together. Martin has joined the Spin Sucks team. Gini has been building Spin Sucks as a community for a decade – and growth has reached the point in which she needs help leading the content team. Enter Martin.
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: journalism, Spin Sucks

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Oh What a Week it Was

May 6, 2018 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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A replay of our conversation from Inside PR 464 about the new Trump administration and whether the news media is too weakened to do its job.

And as you listen to it, we think you’ll find that the questions we asked in January 2017 are as apt today as they were then.
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: journalism, truth

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Inside PR 500: The End is Not Near

April 2, 2018 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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It’s episode 500 and, like the World Wide Web, we’re not going away.
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: Facebook, journalism, Tim Berners-Lee, Twitter

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Return of the Ink-Stained Wretch

January 7, 2018 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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The limits we should apply to sponsored content, new models for journalism and the possibility that local journalism may be linked to a more traditional blue collar model than it is to the television-fueled celebrity salaries of recent years.
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: journalism, Monical Miller

FIR B2B #71: Repairing Trust in News, Celebrating High School Journos, That United Mess and YouTube Woes

April 19, 2017 by David Strom and Paul Gillin Leave a Comment

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A new $40 million initiative attends to combat declining trust in the news media…High school students in Kansas set an example for pro journalists by ripping the cover off fraudulent behavior by their principal…Why do executives have such a hard time saying they’re sorry? We’re looking at you, United Airlines… Advertisers want no part of objectionable content on YouTube. What should Google do?
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Filed Under: FIR B2B Tagged With: journalism, News Integrity Initiative, Oscar Munoz, United Airlines, YouTube

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Inside PR 464: Can the news media still stand up to power?

January 30, 2017 by Joe Thornley, Gini Dietrich and Martin Waxman Leave a Comment

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Does the news media still have the institutional strength to counterbalance a spinning White House?
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Filed Under: Inside PR Tagged With: Donald Trump, journalism, New York Times

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