Media
Latino Economic Development Center holds scholarship Radiothon
The Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC) will hold a radiothon fundraising drive this Saturday, November 21 on three major Twin Cities Spanish language stations to raise money for the LEDC scholarship fund. Collection boxes will also be located at key participating Latino businesses around the Twin Cities. MORE »
NEWS DAY | Cat fight in TC media world
David Brauer gleefully reports that the Strib publisher was taking potshots at MPR yesterday, just before today’s scheduled MPR forMORE »
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK | What do we publish at TC Daily Planet?
Is the Daily Planet part of the news media or part of the blogosphere? Where do our articles come from? Are they edited? What's the difference between blog posts and articles? How do we distinguish between reporting and opinion? Here's the inside story.MORE »
Epic fart propels Eric Nigg’s career
This ad by local filmmakers won the annual CareerBuilder.com contest and will be shown during the 2010 Super Bowl.MORE »
OPINION | News media strategies for survival for
Those of us living through the Internet-caused revolution in journalism can't see what's going to come out the other side: how readers will interact with journalism, what the sources of journalism will be, how journalists will make money. All we do know is that mass-market journalism is hurting, badly, and may not survive. And that we have no idea how to thrive in this new world of MORE »
Broadcast media’s commitment to diversity challenged
Although local outlets claim progress in multicultural programming, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has questioned National Public Radio's (NPR) commitment to diversity.
According to Richard Prince's website, which reports on media diversity issues, Greg Peppers, a 22-year NPR veteran who supervised its newscast unit, was fired on October 16.MORE »
NEWS DAY | Strib cuts 100
The Star Tribune will cut 100 jobs, including 30 in its 290-person news room, it announced yesterday. The 70 non-news-room jobs will be gone by the end of the year, while the 30 news room jobs “may take a little longer.”MORE »
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK | Citizen journalism in DC
From New Haven Independent on one coast to Local Oakland on the other, community journalism and new media are alive and well, and well-represented at the J-Lab conference in Washington. I'm scheduled to talk about training citizen journalists.MORE »
TC Media Alliance Fall Media Forum
Thanks to The Uptake for live-streaming today's forum on Networking and the New Media Landscape: Reporting news, building community, making money. Click "MORE" to see video.
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The idiot monster and the news
That our news media is busted will come as no surprise to consumers of vanishing newspapers, shoutfest TV "news shows" and the unchecked political soapbox called the Internet.
But the devolution of our news media has now reached a point that is in some ways so extreme, and with the stakes for democracy so high, it seems useful to take stock.
Larger and larger swaths of the news media now embrace sensation and celebrity, harshly partisan rhetoric and gossip, rumors and lies to beat the competition and grab market share.
