Sam Hardiman

Enterprise reporter @dailymemphian | Signal: samhardiman.43

[The Daily Memphian @DailyMemphian]

Reporter Sam Hardiman joins The AM/DM podcast to talk about the two draft City Council proposals that were pulled from the city's website without explanation and why Mayor Young's team was concerned. https://t.co/pxEfUNJuH2

[Sam Hardiman @samhardiman]

Odd that Knox News is putting a Q&A between reporter and editor under an opinion label.

[Knox News @knoxnews]

Opinion: Beyond providing power in the South, what does TVA actually do? https://t.co/Vc3fJo70sb

[Bill Dries DM @bdriesdm]

Last night in Whitehaven, a road construction project that began in 2013 continues to draw the ire of those who live and drive Elvis Presley Boulevard. Residents learned last night that project won't be completed until 2031.

[Jerri Green @Jerri_M_Green]

Here's my letter to Mayor Young regarding xAI’s indefinite pause on the greywater reuse facility construction. Our community deserves answers on when this project will be re-initiated and what our options are if we don’t get the answers we deserve. I look forward to working alongside the administration to see the completion of this vital project through and provide transparency in the interim.

[Steve Bohnel @Steve_Bohnel]

Really enjoyed diving into a small part of Memphis history here

[The Daily Memphian @DailyMemphian]

Former Memphis Grizzlies star Tony Allen has pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge in Arkansas, resolving a legal case that began during a traffic stop last year. https://t.co/v6M0m58Ybv

[Bill Dries DM @bdriesdm]

And here is the political roundup...

[Sam Hardiman @samhardiman]

NEWS: Memphis City Council Chairwoman Jana Swearengen-Washington tried to overhaul the city’s IT department this year. She was warned that those efforts — which could’ve benefited a family member — could violate the city charter.

https://t.co/0ZWyOc6Qcc

[John Martin @JohnMartin929]

University of Memphis basketball workouts begin on Tuesday.

Fred Smith Jr. will be there, his father told me this afternoon.

News at @DailyMemphian: https://t.co/gx5nHQn9Rk

[Chris Herrington @ChrisHerrington]

And so … a rule to prevent teams from having 3 straight top 5 picks could bar the Grizzlies from having two straight top 5 picks if one comes via Utah … but still makes it possible for Utah to have 3 straight top 5 picks if they trade for a pick and it’s drawn there.

[Bill Dries DM @bdriesdm]

The AM/DM podcast: A career that began on the air https://t.co/kEdCpMXMx3

[Laura D. Testino 〽️ @ldtestino]

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris proposed a new Treadwell K-8 school as part of his budget today.

That $11.9M initial investment not part of the mega capital request from MSCS, though the idea of a Treadwell K-8 isn't new, from @bdriesdm

https://t.co/fjIgE7EG95

[Bill Dries DM @bdriesdm]

From today's Council Day at City Hall: Mayor Young vetoes council rewrite of impasse ordinance https://t.co/Jw3XxI8HfT

[Drew Hill @DrewHill_DM]

“For me, whether it be in my day-to-day life or coaching kids, that message will forever live on.

“I coached a kid. His name was Brandon Clarke. This was his story: Never give up on what you truly believe in.”

https://t.co/bgrdGBwx54

[Laura D. Testino 〽️ @ldtestino]

New: MSCS extends attorney’s contract as it prepares for legal challenge of takeover

https://t.co/FA481NWBYa

[Laura D. Testino 〽️ @ldtestino]

For everyone with lots of opinions about Memphis school performance metrics, accountability and governance, this is what decisions about these things look like for a few of the 24,000 students in area charter schools:

[Chris Herrington @ChrisHerrington]

Rough day yesterday. Drew and I tried to back up and write a little more broadly about Clarke’s life and time in Memphis.

Reflecting on Brandon Clarke, whose unlikely rise ended too soon https://t.co/hLIlnGh4XL

[Sam Hardiman @samhardiman]

Many local media professionals should read this and ask, “how are we going to grow?” and “what do we need to invest in to grow?”

[TBPN @tbpn]

After several years of declining search traffic, Condé Nast CEO @rogerlynch has directed all the company's brands to operate as if search traffic to their properties will be zero.

He says the era of turning search and social media traffic into profitable businesses is gone.

And that if you run a media business that doesn't have an authoritative brand, a very strong niche, or a direct audience, you're going to be fighting hostile algo changes all the way down.

He describes a recent board meeting:

"We took a snapshot of search results from seven or eight years ago. And what you saw were a few sponsored links, then the ten blue links."

"Do the same search today, you get an AI overview, then you get rows and rows and rows of commerce links, then you get sponsored stuff."

"Each of the last three years, we would do our budgets, and we'd put forecasts in of search traffic declining. Because we'd seen the pattern of algorithm changes. And generally those algorithm changes were negative."

"Every year, our search traffic was down more than we had forecast. So last year I told our teams, 'Assume there's no search.' You have to have your businesses planned as if search is zero. We don't expect it to be zero, we expect it to be a single-digit percentage of our traffic."

[Geoff Calkins @geoff_calkins]

Lovely remembrance of Brandon Clarke from @DrewHill_DM and @ChrisHerrington: https://t.co/3WUJXaKhqD

[Sam Hardiman @samhardiman]

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