Coming in 2019 – Above the Law Influencers Network

The average American adult spends more than 11 hours consuming digital media each day. Simultaneously, our attention span has diminished below eight seconds – equivalent to that of a goldfish. This is why every single legal media brand, and your uncle, is producing content. Over the years, Above the Law (ATL) has expanded its coverage […]

A Most Appealing Announcement

If you’re like me, you’ve been reading Howard Bashman’s excellent appellate litigation blog, How Appealing, for years. When I started to write online more than a decade ago, Howard, a pioneer of legal blogging, was a role model and inspiration. (I pay homage to Howard Bashman and How Appealing with shout-outs in my forthcoming novel.) […]

In Talking About State-Supported Media, The Form Can’t Be Separated From the Funding

It says a lot about how bad things are that in today’s Wall Street Journal Columbia University President Lee Bollinger tried to make a case for a government funding in news media. His specious logic rests on the fact that Americans — “ironically,” in a misuse of the word — already consume state-supported news in […]

Why Is The Market For Journalists and PR People So Inefficient?

Can anyone explain to me why the recruitment market for entry- and early-mid-level journalists, and public relations people is still so insanely inefficient? I used to think it was just me who had to dig for days to turn up a single good candidate. Maybe, I just didn’t know where to look. Maybe, as editor […]