Chicago Tribune | Missing white female alert
Why won’t the media cover missing minority women?
An op-ed by Douglas MacKinnon, press secretary to former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole from 1998 to 2003, was published at chicagotribune.com on May 8, 2005.
This is a great editorial and everyone should read it. Then, write to every major news source: cable, network, print (they all did it, you know) and demand better practices in the future.
Note to the news media–with an emphasis on the cable networks: Enough is enough.
Your continual focus on, …

Listening to Shel & Neville’s For Immediate Release podcast, I was struck with a thought that may – or may not – have some merit in jump starting the accessibility and interest in podcasts.
So, consider this on how to kick start podcasting…
How about time shifting broadcast and satellite radio. Certainly this can’t be far away (maybe already being done). OK, it is … read on.

What a difference two months makes. Blogwise, Chuck and Cindy Zimmerman have gone from caterpillar to butterfly. They are exploring new territory and it seems they are having success. Congrats!
I first found their interesting site – ZimmComm Communications – on December 28th of 2004. My past radio experiences perhaps drew me to them. As an example for my students, I wrote a review/critique of their site/blog.
Radio news releases. That’s what they do. The site now sports a nifty RSS feed for downloading their …

Interesting user of a wiki in broadcasting from Neville Hobson: NevOn: Tsunami help wiki for broadcasters launched
Launched yesterday – Broadcasters-Tsunamihelp, a new wiki-based portal that aims to ensure there is coordination between broadcasters and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the wake of the Asian tsunami disaster:
This site attempts to get an overview of how various organisations around the world have reacted to help broadcasters affected by the December 26th Earthquake and Tsunami. There is the immediate need to replace stations put off the air. But also longer term thinking about …