Newspapers are dead. Or so some harbingers predict. Most likely they’re right too, at least in the traditional forms we think of them in. Sure, there will be the “big ones” who might not ever fall by the wayside – The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The National Enquirer – but that might be it. All [...]

Editor’s note: This is John Reinan’s weekly marketing column for MinnPost.com. To see the original, go to http://tinyurl.com/7b58fq.
Sometimes I wish for the old days, when press agents would buy a few lunches, send a case of scotch to the newsroom at Christmas and ensure coverage of their clients in the only medium that really [...]

Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin is the most fascinating figure to emerge from this year’s election — aside from, of course, the president-elect. Two months ago, I doubt if 5 percent of Americans had heard of the governor of Alaska. But for the past eight weeks, she’s been possibly the most talked-about person in [...]

An upcoming book written by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green coins the term for the latest wave of do-gooders: philanthrocapitalists.
Bishop and Green recognized that donors such as Bill Gates and Bill Clinton are redefining philanthropy, formerly a one-step action of charitable giving, into a business-style model of accountability and results.
Appropriately timed for the September book launch, two recent [...]

I showed up at the National Conference on Media Reform to register and get my material. I had registered as a blogger, and when they gave me my name badge, it carried a little purple ribbon printed in gold letters with the magic word “PRESS.”
I honestly had a physical reaction when I saw it. I felt [...]

Well, not on Idea Peepshow.
But a few short blocks away, at the Minneapolis Convention Center, thousands of deep thinkers, do-gooders, bloggers and assorted social irritants from across the USA will be on hand for the National Conference for Media Reform, sponsored by Freepress.net.
Dan Rather and Bill Moyers are among those who will be there, promoting “diverse [...]

Considering the storylines of Sex and The City, perhaps “sucks” should never be in a headline describing the upcoming movie. Or perhaps it’s oddly appropriate.
Either way, the headline stands. I’m a cliché of a girl who purchased an advance ticket for the SATC premiere. I’m meeting gal pals (friends and frenemies per Carrie Bradshaw) for [...]