studying the media ecosystem
Taking a few days off for a working vacation ( helping my mon-in-law fix up the South Lake Tahoe vacation house so we can enjoy ski and swim outings later!) and sneaking off to a wi-fi hotspot to check on the realworldosphere . . . .
The Canadian startup NowPublic, gets $10.6 million in venture funding to expand a [...]
Wharton School Professor Kevin Werbach is holding his Supernova conference in San Francsico this week and kicking off Tuesday with an open workshop that anyone can join. In scanning the speaker’s list I noticed an entry for Peter Merholz, who I’ve run into a time or two at dinners in San Francisco, and visited his [...]
Tight & Bright: Radio reporters make copy sing. CBS Radio guy Peter King offers great insights into telling the story in the fewest possible words in this Poynter Institute tutorial. King tells interviewer Al Tompkins how he distilled a 250-page report about the Columbia space shuttle accident into this 15 second broadcast:
“Investigators say the root [...]
In May I wrote about author Jonathan Lethem and his unusual approach to selling the film rights to his novel, “You Don’t Love me Yet.” He invited submissions from all comers and said he would pick the proposal that struck him as being best big-screen adaptation of his prose.
I followed up today and learned that [...]
What happens in Vegas is supposed to stay there, or so the advertising slogan goes. But on a PBS documentary tonight called Spying on the Home Front, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hedrick Smith will look into the changed rules of domestic surveillance, including:
“a massive FBI data sweep in December 2003. On a tip that Al Qaeda [...]
The best way to improve the federal government is to encourage people inside the bowels of the bureaucracy to step forward and reveal fraudulent, wasteful or illegal activities. But government whistleblowers more often than not earn “15 minutes of fame and 40 years of misery” as one Pentagon insider told Mother Jones magazine in an [...]
I spend a lot of time web surfing. A few years ago I ran into an old college buddy, now a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, who spends his off time wave surfing and had the slim physique to prove it. Apparently all that ocean-loving fun paid a rich professional dividend. Yesterday when [...]
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