Military Editors

PBS and the Newseum in Washington, D.C., offer this companion blog to their series, The Future of News. Seems to come from an old-media perspective, however.

Cheryl Rodewig of The Bayonnet, Fort Benning, Ga., did more than justice to one of the first African-American WACs in her profile, ‘Pioneer’ for women in military shares story.
The piece might have written itself, based on the subject’s life story. But Rodewig used pace and variety to drive the reader from lede to conclusion. She found [...]

Published in Jan 2010, a George Washington University and Cision survey of journalists reports 89% use blogs and 65% use social networks to research stories.
Lee Odden at the TopRank Online Marketing Blog analyzes results of a couple of  studies measuring reporters’ use of online resources. PAOs should be aware of these techniques; and our own journalists [...]

The new DoD social media policy acknowledges the way humans communicate in the 21st Century. It also puts the burden of operational security on individuals and their trainers. See “New policy authorizes social media access, with caveats.”

The Army’s Keith L. Ware communications competition once was judged by boards of distinguished eminences in the Public Affairs world. They’d pore over entries in a sealed conference room, then emerge like cardinals or members of the Fed to award, reward and mention honorably aspirants to the plaques.
In the last two competitions, however, the judges [...]