Episode 253: Journalists vs. Influencers – Where You Should Place Your Trust, With Karen Stabiner, Journalist and Author
Release Date: 09/05/2023
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info_outlineGetting the word out about your business requires a mix of marketing techniques, but should working with influencers be one of your marketing strategies? On the one hand, influencers can help spread the word about your business, but on the other, influencers can take advantage of businesses and have less credibility than journalists. In this episode, Karen Stabiner talks about the challenges and downsides of working with influencers, particularly in the restaurant industry.
3:57 – Karen shares how she became interested in writing as a career when her eighth-grade teacher told her she was good at writing.
5:26 – Karen talks about how her family owned a restaurant supply company and how she spent a lot of time in restaurants as a kid.
9:25 – Karen describes the difference between journalists and influencers.
18:04 – Karen shares advice for working with influencers.
17:33 – Karen explains what journalist ethics are.
26:02 – Karen answers whether there are any good influencers.
33:40 – Karen talks about shakedown influencers.
38:52 – Nancy asks if influencers and journalists will ever become the same.
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“I am a journalist. I am also a consumer of information. We need to take a moment and reflect on where we are getting our information, what the source is, what the quality of it is and whether we wouldn't like a little more. Influencers are like a snack. Journalists are like a meal.” – Karen Stabiner, Journalist and Author
Links:
The New York Times: “Social Media Influencers Are Holding Restaurants Hostage”: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/24/opinion/social-media-influencer-restaurants.html
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Gatsby-F-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/0743273567
“Charlotte's Web” by E. B White: https://www.amazon.com/Charlottes-Web-B-White/dp/0061124958
“American Prometheus” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin: https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer/dp/0375726268
About the guest:
Karen Stabiner was for three years the West Coast editor of The Counter, a nonprofit digital newsroom, until its untimely demise in May 2022; her work contributed to a 2021 SABEW award for general excellence. She is the author of “Generation Chef,” which follows a young chef as he opens his first restaurant and chronicles the upheaval in the riskiest of businesses. Her other books include “To Dance With the Devil: The New War on Breast Cancer,” a New York Times Notable Book, and her personal favorite, “My Girl: Adventures With a Teen in Training.” While the dignified label for what she does is narrative nonfiction, or immersion journalism, she prefers to think of herself as a fly on the wall. She has also written two cookbooks and two novels.
Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Eater LA, Columbia Journalism Review, The New Yorker, Gourmet (a James Beard award finalist), Saveur, Vogue and Mother Jones. Karen was a founder of an alternative newspaper in Santa Barbara, California, and graduated from the University of Michigan.
Karen spent 10 years as an adjunct professor in the M.S. program at Columbia University Journalism School, where she created a class in food writing and taught reporting and feature writing.
Looking to connect:
Email: [email protected]
X: @kstabiner
Website: www.karenstabiner.com