All entries tagged: personality
Lab Book Club: The role of prestige and personality in selling the news
We’re up to Chapter 6 in our video interview with Duke economist James Hamilton. He’s the author of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. In this chapter, Jay talks about the role prestige and personality play in how media is produced and consumed. Among the topics:
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Who will be the IMDB for books?
A plea for better metadata in book publishing, wondering who will be the industry’s IMDB.
Not everyone chooses a film because of who directs it or who the screenwriter was, but some of us do, and now with databases like IMDB we can easily find lists of films containing the actors we like, or directors and [...]
