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Michael Hoyt BJ


Self Description

November 2007: "After receiving his B.A. and B.J. from the University of Missouri, Michael Hoyt has gone on to report for The Home News (N.J.) and The Record (N.J.). He has also worked as a copy editor for Business Week, senior editor and executive editor for the Columbia Journalism Review; and contributed to The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Nation, Newsday, Working Mother, Mother Jones and other publications."

http://http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1165270069757/JRN_Profile_C/1165270106013/JRNFacultyDetail.htm

Third-Party Descriptions

May 2007: 'With an ever-growing chunk of total revenues coming from the Web, news outlets now scramble their online marketing staffers as quickly as they do reporters when a big story hits....Some argue that such self-promotion treads a dangerous line between being shrewd and exploitative. "It's a line of taste more than ethics," says Michael Hoyt, executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. "You push your newscast, of course, but do you do it on the back of a national tragedy?"'

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_19/b4033067.htm

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) Source Nov 24, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Columbia University Organization Nov 24, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) University of Missouri - Columbia Organization Nov 24, 2007

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
May 07, 2007 Buying Clicks to a Tragedy: How news outfits boost Web traffic when stories like Virginia Tech break

QUOTE: With an ever-growing chunk of total revenues coming from the Web, news outlets now scramble their online marketing staffers as quickly as they do reporters when a big story hits. These marketers employ a variety of tactics to take advantage of their audiences' piqued interest in times of crisis .... Some argue that such self-promotion treads a dangerous line between being shrewd and exploitative.

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