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13 2025 June

The Secret of Optimism and the New Peruvian Airport

Earlier this week when I arrived in Lima, it was in their brand new airport that is less than two weeks old. People in the city had...

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04 2025 June

The Emerging Future of Radio

Radio, and its future, are front and center right now in a lot of conversations. There’s the recent news that NPR is ​suing the Trump...

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30 2025 May

The Campaign to Stop the Spread of Fake Media – PSAi

The best strategy to fight back against the rise of fake media is prioritizing media literacy training for adults and kids. This past week to...

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14 2025 May

What You Can Learn from a Tragically Predictable Kanye West Interview

Kanye West agreed to do a sit-down interview with talk show host Piers Morgan. It didn’t go well. Initially I watched the full 17-minute video,...

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29 2025 April

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: True or False by Cindy L. Otis

This wonderfully useful book written by former CIA analyst Cindy L. Otis is actually meant for young adults to teach them about how to spot...

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28 2025 April

Inside the Marketing Savvy of the World’s Lightest Whiskey Bottle

Claiming that a product is the world’s most ___________ is the most common marketing gateway to empty hyperbole that is sure to inspire plenty of...

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10 2025 March

How a Pharma Ad Ban Could Shift the Landscape of Television Advertising

The advertising industry is anxiously awaiting potential news that newly appointed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who started his term by single-handedly bringing the...

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14 2025 January

The Non-Obvious Media Platform of the Week: Shelly Palmer Blog

Rather than sharing a book recommendation this week, I wanted to switch it up and share a media source that’s particularly timely right now. If...

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08 2024 November

The One Marketing Change That Could Help Save Journalism

The survival of journalism and a free press largely depends on all of our willingness to fund it. One overlooked element of this issue is...

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03 2024 October

The Surprising Appeal of the Lovable Loser

The Chicago White Sox are having a historically bad season. Like, a season that could be the worst in the history of baseball. It’s so...

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12 2024 September

How To Get Hated by AI … and How to Get Someone to Fix It

Reporter Kevin Roose is dealing with a unique problem … AI chatbots hate him. It’s all thanks to an article he wrote back in February...

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02 2024 September

UPDATE: Behind the Scenes of Influencers at the DNC Convention

Last week, many of you wrote to me about a story I shared about the treatment of the media at the Democratic National Convention and how they...

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28 2024 August

What the Democrats Got Wrong About Media at the Convention

One of the truths about our new media environment is the central role that influencers are taking in the content people consume and trust. Particularly...

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