Journalists pay heed – your next career could be as managing editor of a brand’s community. That’s right. Brands, which inspire everything from love to hate, inspire consumers to talk to them through the web’s multi-dimensional system, making the conversation – and not the advertising – the most important thing a brand must negotiate and nurture. Brands gather communities around them. And where there are communities, there is a need for truth. And truth makes the best stories.The true storytellers need to live in brands, and they must practice the trade made special by journalism – telling the truth of your community, and helping them tell stories. And the people who perform that task best are truth seekers like journalists. Not message flackers.Real journalism – not the tawdry Fox News type or the panic of a breaking news story involving a shooter, when CNN and its ilk, in a rush to be first, get more facts wrong than right – doesn’t shock or manipulate. Real journalism, as it has been practiced by some of the world’s best writers for centuries,…
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