All entries tagged: radio

Going solo online: The story of radio’s The Sound of Young America

One of my very favorite places on the Internet is The Sound of Young America, a one-man radio show/podcast by twentysomething Jesse Thorn. Its business-card description is “a public radio show about things that are awesome,” and it mostly meets that bill; imagine Fresh Air aimed at a younger audience and focusing almost exclusively on [...]

6 comments | Posted by Joshua Benton | April 13, 2009 | 10:04 am

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NPR’s Adam Davidson explains the explainer: a model for complex news

“I feel like the voice of business journalism is sort of, it’s an authoritative voice of God,” says Adam Davidson, international business and economics correspondent for National Public Radio, toward the end of our interview in the video above. “But there is no authority. It’s a process.”
We were talking about “The Giant Pool of Money,” [...]

6 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | March 31, 2009 | 9:00 am

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AP responds to Royhab (and NJL)

Paul Colford, the AP’s director of media relations, has asked to respond to the interview I did with The Toledo Blade’s Ron Royhab about the Ohio News Organization (OHNO), the news-sharing cooperative formed by the state’s eight biggest newspapers.
First, he says Ron’s memory is faulty: “AP CEO Tom Curley did not attend the meeting with [...]

2 comments | Posted by Joshua Benton | March 10, 2009 | 2:13 pm

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Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper”

In an approach rather different from Microsoft’s vision of content delivery in the future, which I described yesterday, MediaNews Group has announced plans for I-News, a system that will print your own customized newspaper on your own printer:
The “individuated” stories selected by each reader are sent to a special printer being developed for MediaNews that [...]

30 comments | Posted by Martin Langeveld | March 6, 2009 | 9:56 am

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Morning Links: December 17, 2008

— Go read this post from James Fallows about a longtime Minnesota radio host named Tommy Mischke who was recently fired. He points to this MinnPost piece on one advertiser’s response. The advertiser, a jeweler, had been having Mischke do personalized radio ads for his company for 15 years:
Mischke “made a profound difference in my [...]

1 comment | Posted by Joshua Benton | December 17, 2008 | 10:04 am

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