3 posts and columns on Sam Whitmore

Is Social Media Killing PR? (Or Maybe Vice Versa?)

in News on November 13, 2008 at 1:03 am PT

Last night, BoomTown was at the Horn Group offices in San Francisco to appear on a lively panel called “Is Social Media Killing PR?” Focused on the “future of the media ecosystem,” it was inspired by recent blog rants by Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington, all of whom have taken potshots at the PR industry as unnecessary or broken in the new social media order.

"Like It or Not: You're in the Media Business" ATD Reader Discount

in News on March 18, 2008 at 1:33 am PT

One of AllThingsD.com’s greatest friends–integral to its creation, in fact–has been Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and former president of the Dow Jones Consumer Media Group. Crovitz knows a thing or two about the transition mainstream media has been making to new media and, more importantly, was never scared of the [...]