‘i feel like i’m at an aa meeting’
Add comment April 18th, 2008
thanks to a google alert this morning, i found out that my boss, linda grist cunningham, said that quote in the top of a forbes article about newspapers. she recently spoke at an american society of newspaper editors meeting in washington (so did the presidential candidates, btw).
the point of the story? to succeed in launching products, newsrooms and advertising departments have to work together from the start, to be on the same team because we both want to connect with readers.
this does NOT mean that journalists have to sell out their credibility. but it’s a pretty foreign concept in an industry that treats the news-ad division like church-state. it requires trust and conversation.
update: linda told me that she made the “aa” remark after the speaker before her had said the same thing…
