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The NEW NewsHour
Mountain Lake PBS will launch a new version of the NewsHour on December 7. Here’s a short discussion with Jim Lehrer about the changes: On December 7, 2009 The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer will re-launch...
View Article23rd Congressional District Round-up on MLJ
Watch Mountain Lake Journal on Thursday for special coverage of the hottest electoral race in the US this year – our 23rd district race for John McHugh’s seat. Dede Scozzafava, Bill Owens and Doug...
View ArticleVideo Games as Art
One of my recent favorite segments on Mountain Lake Journal Extra was getting lost in the chatter, so I’m unearthing it here:
View ArticleRevolution PBS: Efficiency Idea 1
This new (anonymous) voice in the ether is offering up some radical, and, it seems, well motivated ideas about how to change up the public television system. Certainly worth wrestling with or embracing...
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Response to PBS Revolution
Here is my response to the provocative site PBS revolution and the thoughtful post by John Proffitt posted yesterday. Colin Powers said… Like John, I’m interested to see how the dialogue develops on...
View ArticleCoffee with your news? Beverage revenues the answer for pubmedia newsrooms?
Hyperlocal ‘news cafes’ are taking the Czech news scene by storm By Teri Pecoskie While newspapers scramble to figure out how to turn a profit in a quickly evolving industry, a small group of Czech...
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Let’s Put the ‘Public’ back in Public Broadcasting
I usually try to shorten reposted blogs, but this Gwen Ifill/Jay Rosen dialogue has really caught my interest. I’m convinced that public media needs to be looking at itself HARDER and with more real...
View ArticleReinventing reporting and “crowd-sourcing” your stories
This chain of newspapers is boldly striking out into digital territory that no other legacy media has ventured in (switching to free online tools and more), but I’m eager to consider how our station...
View ArticleJoe Berlinger’s case yields preliminary “wins” for both sides
Both sides have claimed early victories in the case of documentarian Joe Berlinger vs. Chevron over access to the raw footage he shot for his expose “Crude” on Amazonian oil exploitation. I’ve blogged...
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