Ever since my days years ago blogging at Lost Remote, I’ve made it a tradition to post the greatest Thanksgiving moment in TV history. Ladies and gentlemen, the Thanksgiving Turkey Drop from WKRP in Cincinnati, broadcast in 1978. Happy Thanksgiving. (Click the link – the video’s not embeddable.)
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We’re seeing more and more outlets embrace a right- or left-leaning bias as part of their programming. This is especially true on radio, where conservatives have long ruled the commercial airwaves. But there’s a station in Boston that is trying to offer counter-programming — WWZN 1510 AM is gunning for the left. The Boston...
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DISCUSS: Could a new, ground-up media company survive in Boston? If so, do you see it as a for-profit or not-for-profit? How would you structure your dream newsroom?
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The newspapers continue their quest to find a paid online subscription model, and this week the Boston Globe is rolling out its paid offering. GlobeReader is comes with e-reader software that allows people to read a digital version of the Globe, presented in a “print format” style.
The cost is $4.98 a week for new...
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If you’re interested and you have the time (!), check out The Future of News, a summit being held in Minnesota today. They’re streaming live and liveblogging on the front page at thefutureofnews.ning.com. From the site:
The Future of News summit is an interactive day-long discussion that will define the role regional organizations play in...
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Been reading the Neiman Lab. Very impressive. Highly recommend for anyone considering the future of journalism.
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I cannot recommend enough that you read this piece by Nicholas Carr on the New York Times Magazine. The future of television is glimpsed in this piece, but it certainly applies to the future of news and particularly video news. I would welcome your thoughts. The convergence of the computer, the internet...
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(This piece originally appeared in the AR&D Media 2.0 INTEL Newsletter, a publication of my employer. I include it here because its theme – using multiple Twitter streams – is important to understand as part of our overall mission.)
The Austin American-Statesman has started as a dedicated feed just for stories about the Fort Hood tragedy,...
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Lou Dobbs abruptly quit CNN Wednesday night on live TV in a near-Howard Beale-worthy rant. And that has put me in the mind to ask: “Do we even need name-brand broadcasters?” Yes, Fox News has proved a few names can be good for ratings. But on the local front, these people have become ridiculously...
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OK, I think it is time to lay out a new paradigm. I leave it to you to share your thoughts and add to what I expect will be a new direction in journalism. Here it is:
THE NATIVE NEWS PARADIGM
by Charles Kravetz
News is inextricably bound to its form. Newspapers embrace a form of...
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