My Lead Story on New York Magazine Website

Is it legal not to pay 400+ volunteers who staff New York’s Fashion Week? This story just fell into my lap, complete with multiple document leaks. http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/02/what-its-like-to-be-an-unpaid-worker-at-nyfw.html

My New Column in Huffington Post today

This one start’s out fast and light – about lousy headline writing – and gets a bit dense with trademark and a corporate conflict. Let me know what you think.

How the Gawkering of a Headline Ate a New York Times Story

Social journalism and open platforms are the new normal — now we have to make them work

Matthew Ingram of Giga Om picks up on my piece in Pando on social journalism.

Gigaom

What happens when everyone has the ability to publish? One thing that happens is the traditional media industry loses much of its power, over both the content that people read and the advertising that helps support it — but the other thing that happens is a profusion of content of all kinds, from “citizen journalists” to brands and advocacy groups and everything in between. How can media entities take advantage of this phenomenon without losing their way in the process?

In a nutshell, that’s the dilemma that Ed Sussman tackles in a recent post on Pando. Sussman, CEO of a site called Buzzr, is a former president at FastCompany magazine who helped turn that company’s website into an early hybrid of publisher and platform — or what Jonathan Glick of Sulia has referred to as a “platisher” (a horrible-sounding term that I sincerely hope will never catch on).

As Sussman…

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