By Jessica Newman
Bill Bryson is one of the founders of Grow Radio, an online Gainesville community radio station with both musical and non-musical programming, as well as the former publisher of Satellite Magazine. He moved to Gainesville in 1992 and opened the Covered Dish, a music venue that operated for eight years. He was involved in college [...]
By Jessica Newman
An Interview with Misty Perez Truedson of Free Press
Free Press is a non-profit organization that believes in reforming media to transform democracy. She conducts strategic communications and outreach activities to advance Free Press’ legislative and movement building initiatives. She works with community-based organizations, public interest groups, academics and other allies to encourage participation in Free [...]
By Jessica Newman
Colin Whitworth started Moon Magazine, a free Gainesville alternative monthly that focused on local politics and entertainment, with four other journalists in 1990. He graduated from UF in the late ’80s and worked at The Alligator during his college years, which he described as a “very idealistic place when it came to journalism.” After graduation, Whitworth went to work at the daily paper in Leesburg. But he wasn’t happy with his job at the profit-driven news organization, so he and some friends decided to start Moon Magazine, where Whitworth could focus on the in-depth reporting that got him into journalism in the first place.
By Jessica Newman
This video performance from a Canadian newspaper staff is more quirky than pointed. The quartet works for The Globe and Mail, a weekly national newspaper printed in Toronto. Like print media everywhere, they’re struggling to keep their heads above water in the face of the endless possibilities of the Internet. In the video, they touch [...]
By Jessica Newman
Robert Parry is a career investigative journalist who is most famous for covering and breaking the news of the Iran-Contra Scandal in the 1980s, for which he won the George Polk Award, while working for the Associated Press and Newsweek. After he was ousted from Newsweek by the editors, who wanted the Iran-Contra Scandal to [...]
