I wrote a whole post about how local radio can survive a digital era, but John Collins (paraphrasing James Cridland) puts it much more succinctly: “Your content may be on AM, FM, Digital or a file, but it will only succeed if it’s relevant to your community of interest.” So simple. But so essential.
Eric Karjaluto: “Recently, I noticed something. In spite of common wisdom arguing the opposite, I’m happier when busy. I’m not talking about the distraction that comes from checking your smartphone every 30 seconds. I’m referring to the way complete absorption in a task leads to clarity.”
Ian Urbina: “Passwords do more than protect data. They protect dreams, secrets, fears and even clues to troubled pasts, and for some, they serve as an everyday reminder of what matters most.” What a brilliant idea for a story, and what great stories he found. via
Longtime journalist Linden MacIntyre has some parting words for the CBC: “As is often the case in times of existential crisis, it becomes a challenge for people running countries or institutions to project the kind of leadership that fosters confidence and morale – no troubled institution can survive without those two qualities. And so we […]
Ben Smith: “If your goal — as is ours at BuzzFeed — is to deliver the reader something so new, funny, revelatory, or delightful that they feel compelled to share it, you have to do work that delivers on the headline’s promise, and more. This is a very high bar. It’s one thing to enjoy […]
Wow. So a CBC Saskatchewan host mentioned it was going to be going up to -1, which she suggested was “nice”, prompting this two-minute tirade from a caller against the weather, the province, and, of course, CBC itself. The only thing really surprising about this is that it’s making the rounds publicly. As anyone who’s […]
Steven Kurutz: “I’ve sort of noticed something about the way we speak, and I wonder if you’ve sort of noticed it, too. Let me kind of explain. It’s about sort of, and its twin, kind of, and how these adverbial downtoners, as the British grammarian Sir Randolph Quirk calls them, have totally, completely, 100 percent […]
The Globe and Mail: “In his blog entry, the linguist David Crystal explains that key identifying features of a regional accent tend to disappear when singing: the intonation (as a melody replaces it), vowel length (for many syllables are elongated) and the vocal cadence. Crystal goes on to say that vowel quality is also often affected, “especially […]
“I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience.”
Canadian Media Guild VP Lisa Lareau on the status of the CBC “What we do see is an increasingly empty Broadcasting Centre. We see empty offices. We see one empty studio, another one used by a former network competitor (Rogers) and a few more slated to be shuttered by next year. We see whole areas of […]
I am not sure why there are a bunch of stories about fluoride right now, since only a couple of B.C. cities are actually voting on it. But nevertheless , here’s the Globe and Mail tackling it today, and coming up with the same conclusions as elsewhere: “The overwhelming evidence is that fluoride is safe […]
A collective of independent, experimental, and production-rich podcasts have raised over half a million dollars from 20,000 people in under a month. You want to talk about the future of radio? You should be talking about this.
“If your parents are letting you live in the basement, you might as well go out and do something for free to put the experience on your CV.”
A look at how the stories we tell and the images we show morph and adapt online. From photos of events that never happened, to crafting that irresistible headline that you just have to click on. The push and pull of truth, fiction, and misattribution in a viral culture.
Heer Jeet, who inspired my post on Twitter essays the other day, writes a Twitter essay about the Twitter essay: “The twitter essay is not just a regular essay with numbered sentences broken up into tweets. It is a form with own rules.” Worth a read. If the Twitter essay is a form (and I’d […]
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