Instead of packing for my Christmas holiday, I spent Friday morning in a Twitter discussion about the state of podcasting, interactive audio and the state of broadcasting with Rob Bole, Rekha Murthy, Adam Schweigert, Josh Stearns and Benjamen Walker, among others. I summarized our exchanges on Storify. A couple of concluding thoughts: Anyone chatting about podcasting over Twitter is part of a … Continue reading »
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Jim Webb, Public Media Journalist, and McCain Aligned on Lebanon (c. 1983)
Jim Webb’s well-timed book tour has made him “one of the veep candidates of choice for the liberal intelligentsia” according to Greg Sargent at TPM. In the flood of blog posts about Webb, his experience as an Emmy-award winning reporter for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHours is rarely mentioned. Robert Timberg discussed Webb the journalist in his … Continue reading »
Chicago Public Radio’s Life After Bush
It’s not on one of them fancy coastal stations, but WBEZ’s Worldview is one of the global affairs shows on public radio. This month Jerome McDonnell’s show has been looking at Life After Bush; the ongoing series on Global Activism is also worth a gander. Interviews that stand out for me include one with Iraqi-American … Continue reading »
KPBS Stands Out for San Diego Fire Coverage
I’ve friends and family in San Diego and therefore was especially glad to find KPBS’ extensive coverage of the fires. [Update, thanks to Frank Taylor for the pointer.] It has created, or is linking to, Google Earth and Google Maps and is sending out updates over Twitter (8 in the last hour alone) to more … Continue reading »
