2026 Resolution: Fight AI Slop with F2F Engagement
“Slop, meaning nonsense generated by artificial intelligence (AI), was 2025’s “word of the year,” according to the dictionary folks at Merriam-Webster. That’s as it should be, as last year saw an explosion in the made-up material that is being generated by AI. Fake words. Fake images. Fake videos. Fake music. Fake social media posts. Fake […]
Media Relations 404: Craft Compelling Heds and Ledes
“Headless Body in Topless Bar!” That got your attention, didn’t it? It is not a lede, strictly speaking. It was the memorable headline for The New York Post’s classic 1983 article about a mob murder whose victim, sans head, was stashed in a gentlemen’s club in Manhattan. But whether it’s a hed or a […]