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By Robert Niles: When you achieve a leadership position in the journalism business - whether that be within a newsroom or running your own publishing business - promotion becomes an indispensable part of your work duties. You'll need to become a spokes...

By Robert Niles: When you achieve a leadership position in the journalism business - whether that be within a newsroom or running your own publishing business - promotion becomes an indispensable part of your work duties. You'll need to become a spokes...

By Robert Niles: When you achieve a leadership position in the journalism business - whether that be within a newsroom or running your own publishing business - promotion becomes an indispensable part of your work duties. You'll need to become a spokes...

By Robert Niles: When you achieve a leadership position in the journalism business - whether that be within a newsroom or running your own publishing business - promotion becomes an indispensable part of your work duties. You'll need to become a spokes...

By Robert Niles: You've started a Facebook page for your publication. You tweet several times a day. You're even hawking stories over on Google Plus now.But that's not enough for you.If you're like me, the tools and metrics you use to connect wit...

By Robert Niles: When was the last time you inspired someone?I thought of that question while reading the many tributes to the last Steve Jobs this week. Those recollections prompted me to tweet:"Steve Jobs' greatest accomplishment was inspiring th...

By Robert Niles: First, I want to recommend that all online journalists take a look at Howard Owens' excellent piece on what AOL is asking its Patch editors to do on a daily basis: You should only work this hard if you own the business.I tweeted that...

By Robert Niles: First, I want to recommend that all online journalists take a look at Howard Owens' excellent piece on what AOL is asking its Patch editors to do on a daily basis: You should only work this hard if you own the business.I tweeted that...

By Jason Stverak: Last month, a federal court ruled that recording public officials, including police officers, is protected by the First Amendment. This decision, which may outrage law enforcement officials and members of Congress, is one of the first...

By Robert Niles: Imagine you're going shopping.You've found just the sweater you want. It's the perfect style, color and size. But you can't buy it. It's not that you lack the money - you've got plenty. (Hey, I know I'm writing for journalists here, ...

By Robert Niles: The new version of Facebook is:a) a powerful upgrade that gives users the ability to fine-tune their news feed, seeing only the updates they care about, and finally muting the noise from friends with whom they really aren't that clos...

By Melanie Sill: In the past, newsrooms defined success in proprietary terms: “owning the story,” or beating the competition. If people wanted to know, they had to come to us — these were our stories, after all. This idea has never really held tr...