GANAHL ON MEDIA

Not since Guttenberg has media held such promise or threatened such chaos. This blog seeks to make sense out of this media transformation.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Celebrating 10 Years! Happy B-day, BUnow!

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AUTHOR’S NOTE: Many hundreds of students, faculty, staff, friends and organizations are true celebrants in BUnow’s Tenth Anniversary. W...
Friday, December 16, 2011

RIP: Prolific Essayist & Provocateur Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011

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Forever the contrarian and provocateur, Vanity Fair writer Christopher Hitchens died at 62 on December 15, 2011. The first of his family to ...
Friday, April 30, 2010

GANAHL ON MEDIA: College Media Pioneers

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While BU Now’s student staff is excited by a future one student editor describes as “unimaginable,” some college media pioneers involved i...
Friday, March 19, 2010

GANAHL ON MEDIA: Hype In Hyper Local?

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Even as the legacy media business model implodes and dozens of media outlets and thousands of journalists disappear, many pin some of their ...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

GANAHL ON MEDIA: Let Google Fix It

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What’s a column on media without media predictions for the upcoming year? Right now everybody is in the prediction business. A Google search...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

GANAHL ON MEDIA: The J-Grad Job Crisis

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QUESTION : What are the odds of finding meaningful careers in journalism and mass communications (J&MC) for the more than 50,000 studen...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

GANAHL ON MEDIA: A Fed Bailout?

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Want to start an argument with a journalist? Easy. Demand their reporting notes, insist they reveal the names of confidential sources, or su...
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Richard Ganahl
Dr. Richard Ganahl is a professor of mass communications at Bloomsburg University, PA. He is a former media publisher, political strategist, and serial entrepreneur. DrG is the founding faculty advisor of BUnow.com, a student-led, independent, multi-platform, pure-play news site that has generated over 1.63 million page views and attracted over 800 thousand visitors in its first 8 years! He is a political junkie, loves to read history, biographies, Joan Didion, Bob Woodward and anything about the Kennedy era.
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