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 [...]
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 [...]
By Jessica Newman
Today, Nov. 9, marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event many deem to be the ultimate triumph of democracy, like Ross Douthat of the New York Times. In fact, media outlets all over the world celebrated the anniversary today as an event that brought “democracy” to the Eastern bloc. [...]
By Jessica Newman
William McKeen is a professor and chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Florida in the College of Journalism and Communications. McKeen worked as a newspaper reporter and copy editor for many years and later moved into magazines. He then decided to go back to graduate school, after which he changed his [...]
By Jessica Newman
It’s no secret that the journalism we know today is a lot different from the journalism we knew 5 years ago. Since its creation, media has always been in a constant state of flux, from handwritten pamphlets to the printing press to radio to television to the Web. So here I am, embracing the latest [...]
By Jessica Newman
Crisis is also an opportunity for creativity and for the emergence of new models. -KVH Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor-in-chief and publisher of The Nation, a weekly progressive magazine that’s been around since 1865. The Nation is based on a for-profit model, but is still largely reader-supported and relies little on advertising sales. Like [...]
By Jessica Newman
Listen to the complete interview: {audio}mp3/amy.mp3{/audio} Amy Goodman is the co-founder and host of Democracy Now! where she is dedicated to giving a voice to the silenced. Democracy Now! is one of the most successful independent media outlets in the world broadcasting for free online, on the radio and on television. As an investigative journalist, [...]
