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Last week, I participated in a Radio and TV News Directors Foundation panel commemorating the journalistic life and times of the seminal 20 th Century broadcast journalist, Edward R. Murrow. While the first night focused on Murrow and his legacy from...
As a kid, I always wondered what it would have been like to live during a time of great drama and discovery--to be there when Columbus landed in America, say, or when the Founding Fathers ratified the Constitution. History was taught in a more black and...
Where do creative ideas come from? Why are some organizations innovative and others slog through in a muddle? What kind of atmosphere is conducive to creativity and ingenuity? The current issue of The New Yorker is devoted to innovation in all of its...
This all-important campaign seems to be going on forever, with strong partisans on each side making the case for their respective candidates. Consumers are being blizzarded by e-mail and buttonholed by friends to voice their support and cast their vote...
Spend any time walking around the cavernous floors of the Las Vegas Convention Center during the National Association of Broadcasters confab, and you'll come smack up against someone talking about connections: whether it's moving your video playlist...
I was plowing through the very excellent " The State of the News Media 2008 ," an annual report on American journalism, produced by The Project for Excellence in Journalism. The operative term is "plowing through" since it runs over...
If you're a student of politics, as I am, you just can't do better than the current contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. While others bemoan the length of the campaign, its peculiarities (someone explain to me again the rationale...
The last time I went to the NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives) convention, it was the 90's, and I got my picture taken with Hulk Hogan, which impressed the hell out of my then ten-year old son, Micah. I came across the picture...
I get on the bus, and I can't see clearly out the windows because the bus operator has sold advertising to a company which has shrink-wrapped the entire bus with its logos and slogans. It's nighttime now as the bus approaches my destination, and...
When I started to look for a correspondent and host for our upcoming TitanGreens, I had a rough vision of the kind of person I was looking for: Smart, engaged, with an equal passion for the environment and storytelling. If I was lucky, my imaginary candidate...
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