PBS Can Survive by Filling TV News Void
There is commentary in the New York Times about the decline of PBS; it is becoming more and more irrelevant. For example, the writer Charles McGrath mentions Masterpiece Theater has become Jane Austen...
View ArticleAn Adult Tries $100 Computer
I am at the Computation and Journalism Conference at Georgia Tech. It has been keeping me so occupied that I can’t be touting the Representative Journalism that launched earlier this week. But it has...
View ArticleCitizen Journalism: Atlanta Tornado Updates
I am in Minnesota, so have missed the Atlanta tornado, but this from Grayson Daughters who is on the ground reporting: Mention that cit. journalists in Atlanta are creating a “virtual” newsroom… I’m...
View ArticleCalling Tampa Bay Citizen Journalists – Support Gannett NOW
Tampa Bay’s 10 screams out with great enthusiam: Tampa Bay’s 10 is looking for twenty people around the Bay area to help us with a special project. We will teach twenty lucky people how to shoot a...
View ArticleJournalists Being Arrested in St. Paul RNC Convention
“Democracy Now! radio host Amy Goodman and two producers were arrested while covering demonstrations at the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn.” That’s from the Washington Post. Goodman is...
View ArticleYouTube to Provide $10,000 Citizen Journalism Prize
This just in from a YouTube press release : YOUTUBE, PULITZER CENTER TO PUT MEDIA IN HANDS OF THE PEOPLE WITH PROJECT: REPORT SAN BRUNO, CA–(September 8, 2008) – YouTube™, the leading online video...
View ArticleGeorgians Speak Out from Inside Two-Hour Voting Line
So I went to vote early on Thursday and decided to Video Your Vote from inside a two, really two and one-half hour line to cast my presidential election vote. I live in Cobb County, Georgia. So were...
View ArticlePaula Kerger: Room for PBS and NPR to Partner for News
Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS, said she sees the possibility of PBS and National Public Radio (NPR) sharing resources to produce news programming for PBS. Leonard Witt, who conducted the video...
View ArticleNo Safe Haven: NPR to Cut Workforce 7 Percent
This from the lead of a NPR story: NPR News announced Wednesday that it is canceling two daily radio programs — Day to Day and News and Notes — as part of a broader effort by the company to close a...
View ArticleMediaStorm: An Era for High Quality, Long-Form Journalism
Anyone interested in the future of powerful long-form journalism, should give this Q&A with Brian Storm of MediaStorm a read. Here is an example of a great insight: We have to get better as...
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