The Valleywag blog has an interesting take — it’s not good for PR people — on the naming of Marcus Brauchli as the new managing editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Valleywag wrote, “Marcus Brauchli, who takes over from Paul Steiger at the helm of the powerful business newspaper, is a noted opponent of the media embargoes that Silicon Valley companies love so much. Companies such as Apple and Google give sneak peeks of new products, and initiatives, to the elite business press — but only on condition they hold off until the day of the announcement. That’s how all those seemingly prescient articles — ‘X will today announce’ — come to be.
“Anyway, the younger generation of newspaper managers, Brauchli among them, are tired of these cosy arrangements; and tired of being scooped if news leaks out to the web before the embargo is lifted. Where the Journal leads, others will follow. So, flacks, expect a change in the rules of the game.”
Read more here, including some interesting reader comments about whether a change in embargoed material will apply to Journal tech guru Walter Mossberg.Â
OLD Media Moves
Will new WSJ ME be bad news for flaks?
April 18, 2007
Posted by Chris Roush
The Valleywag blog has an interesting take — it’s not good for PR people — on the naming of Marcus Brauchli as the new managing editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Valleywag wrote, “Marcus Brauchli, who takes over from Paul Steiger at the helm of the powerful business newspaper, is a noted opponent of the media embargoes that Silicon Valley companies love so much. Companies such as Apple and Google give sneak peeks of new products, and initiatives, to the elite business press — but only on condition they hold off until the day of the announcement. That’s how all those seemingly prescient articles — ‘X will today announce’ — come to be.
“Anyway, the younger generation of newspaper managers, Brauchli among them, are tired of these cosy arrangements; and tired of being scooped if news leaks out to the web before the embargo is lifted. Where the Journal leads, others will follow. So, flacks, expect a change in the rules of the game.”
Read more here, including some interesting reader comments about whether a change in embargoed material will apply to Journal tech guru Walter Mossberg.Â
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