tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50426022011-07-29T03:29:59.585-06:00...on journalism, new media, and other stuff.Dalenoreply@blogger.comBlogger1381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-20636849339168973932007-06-28T12:13:00.000-06:002007-06-28T12:24:26.612-06:00

Rebecca is back on in the mornings. She is now the co-host of the morning show on Bonneville's FM100 in Salt Lake City. She had previously guest hosted on the morning show with Brian Foxx and was the regular host of the station's "Love Songs After Dark." She continues, for the time being, as the noon anchor on sister station, KSL NewsRadio.Previously: Rebecca's Homegrown

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Shaking Off Amnesia, Gonzales Remembers He's Actually Pool Salesman From TulsaWASHINGTON, DC—Hotshot Tulsa pool salesman "Cabana Al" has no idea why he was placed in command of a $40 billion budget and more than 110,000 employees..onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow:

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Dan Rather says Couric newscast is "tarted up."

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After barely a year on the air, Utah's radio station for women is no more. Despite great fanfare when the station was launched in May 2005, AM 820 apparently was not making enough money and Bonneville flipped the format to 24-hour Christian music.

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I'm back from New York City. Since the end of April I had been living there to supervise interns for BYU and teach a class on New York media history. I've posted some photos of the adventure, like this one, which I took on the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a wonderful experience and I actually grew to love the city. The students did a great job. Their parents and the faculty should be proud of

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As rumored, Meredith Viera will replace Katie Couric at Today. NBC made the announcement today. Although I've never watched more than 5 minutes of The View (I'm not their demographic, anyway), I've been a big fan of hers since she was on West 57th in 1986.

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Katie Couric made the announcement this morning on the Today Show. If you missed it at 7:30 this morning, you can see the video on the Today Show website.

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Rumored for months, Katie Couric is apparently ready to make the jump to CBS where she will become the first woman to solo anchor a network's nightly newscast.Howard Kurtz cites "well-placed" sources as confirming the deal may be announced soon.This will set of a tsunami of changes everywhere, starting with the Today Show, where Katie could be replaced by Meredith Viera.The Philadelphia

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The New York Times has a new look online. It is cleaner and prettier, but may take some getting used to. On the other hand, the fonts are easier to read and the tabs at the top of the page are nice.

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No, I'm not referring to UCLA's crushing defeat in the NCAA basketball final. Rather disgraced former House majority leader Tom DeLay (aka "The Hammer") is dropping out of his re-election campaign and the House itself. Time magazine broke the news tonight.DeLay's stunning downfall is the result of a series of arrogant overreaches and possible corruption. Reportedly he is dropping out because he

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My wife's new television program, "Home Grown" is premiering this month on BYUTV, which can be seen on satellite and cable systems.The link above takes you to the show's website.

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Steve Jobs made some big announcements at the MacWorld Expo. Perhaps the biggest is the introduction of a new notebook computer. It looks like the current Powerbook G4, but it has dual Intel chips and has been renamed the MacBook Pro. My Powerbook isn't up for replacement for another year, so the announcements that had more immediate consequences for me were those concerning the software

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My good friend Al Stavitsky at the University of Oregon is profiled in that school's newspaper, the Emerald for his podcasting experiment. Al attended the convergence conference at BYU last fall and since then has been offering the "Al Pod" to his Mass Media and Society class. He posts the podcasts to his Blackboard site. Al is a former broadcaster, so he says it was easy to put together a 20

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1136816953849015372006-01-09T06:54:00.000-07:002006-01-09T07:41:37.533-07:00

New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley writes that ABC's new team is adequate, but lacking the "voice of God" status of their predecessors. Stanley writes that Vargas seemed to be taking steps to appear the anchor in charge and concludes that "sparks are unlikely to fly" as a result of the new pairing.Meanwhile, the Times reports on how WNT is moving ahead without Peter Jennings.

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Historians, rejoice -- today's Deseret Morning News reports the University of Utah's Digital Newspaper project has nearly completed posting all editions of the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune. You can get them online at: digitalnewspapers.org.

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David Pogue of the New York Times informs us of a new version of the Treo smart phone, unveiled today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And, based on his description, its quite clear that Palm has ruined it. The Treo 700W runs on Windows! I wouldn't care if that was the extent of it, but as a result of the change much of the functionality in my Treo 600 (or my wife's 650) disappears

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Via Romenesko: The Boston Phoenix examines the possibility that the New York Times may be indicted for publishing its exposé of the Bush administration's illegal wiretapping operation. Drawing parallels to the Nixon era, the article suggests prosecutors may use "from the Espionage Act on down."Meanwhile, TV Newser reports on some behind the scene developments regarding NBC's coverage that the

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Ana Marie Cox, the saucy blogger known as the "Wonkette" has quit her day job. The blog carries on without her. Ms. Cox became well known outside the blogosphere by late 2004, giving interviews on CNN and appearing on NBC for its election coverage.The ex-Wonkette has a new novel coming out this week about -- what else -- blogging a Washington scandal. It's loosely based on the Washingtonienne

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ABC debuted its new version of World News Tonight last evening. So far, it looks pretty much like what they've been doing. Bob Woodruff anchored from Iran and Elizabeth Vargas from the set in New York. The graphics package is different, the set is the same.What's really cool is the daily webcast ABC has added, called "World News Now."Reaction:"Quiet debut" (Boston Globe)"Strong Start" (

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Howard Kurtz is reporting that Ted Koppel has agreed to a deal with the Discovery network, which has agreed to hire nine members of his Nightline staff, including executive producer Tom Bettag. Koppel left Nightline in November, the program he debuted in 1980.Koppel was reportedly close to signing a deal with HBO, but was lured to Discovery to produce documentaries and town hall meetings.Earlier

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This morning's reporting of the coal mining tragedy in West Virginia is nothing short of a journalistic embarrassment. Media outlets across the board reported early this morning that 12 miners were found alive and were being sent to the hospital. Naturally, their families rejoiced. The truth, which the mining company waited three hours to share with the families and the public, was that the

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Communications professor and media critic George Gerbner died this week of cancer. He was 86. Gerbner was the dean emeritus of the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Cultivation Theory, which suggests that long term exposure to media such as television has small but measurable effects on viewers.

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The next Vanity Fair looks like a good one, as it promises a profile on Don Imus. Acccording to the New York Post, Imus has lots of nasty things to say about some of his MSNBC colleagues (Tucker Carlson is a "twit" and Chris Matthews is an "idiot"). And Imus apparently torqued the VF writer, as he is reportedly described as a manevolent old man who looks well beyond his years.

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Bill O'Reilly has declared war on the New York Times for daring to report on the Bush administration's secret and illegal wiretapping operation. Not just your regular blame the media war -- this is personal. O'Reilly is threatening to go after columnist Frank Rich and editor Bill Keller and "get into their personal lives." He says he's the only one who can do it because everyone else is afraid

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the "shocking" news that not all journalism professors have journalism experience. This has been a matter of debate within the academy for some time, as universities require professors to have PhDs. And how many working journalists have PhDs? (For that matter, some of the best journalists I know didn't even finish school for a B.A.)We've been lucky at our

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WMAQ, NBC's O&O in Chicago, is testing out a new web design. If you want a preview the station is asking you to provide your email address and a password. Lost Remote reports that WMAQ is test driving the new design before it is picked up by NBC's other owned and operated stations.Earlier: KUTV first CBS O&O with web redesign (June 28, 2005)

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A new study out says that podcasting is mainly a "guy thing." According to MediaWeek, only about a third of web users have even heard the term "podcasting" and of those only about a third have actually listened to a podcast -- and 78 percent of those were men.Don't know what podcasting is? Want to know how to podcast? For complete and easy directions, check out Scott Lunt's Podcasting Your

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The New York Times reports this morning on the effects blogging is having on the practice of journalism. Increasingly, sources are no longer passive in the reporting process: many are posting e-mail exchanges with reporters and their own transcripts of interviews to give. Although bloggers don't have the reach of traditional media, the article points out that blogs remain in cyberspace

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The New York Times profiles Time-Warner cable news outlet NY1. Over the last decade the Manhattan-based operation has been known for its use of "one-man bands" (reporter who operates his or her own camera in the field) and other low-cost newsgathering methods. The article notes that a joke among New York reporters was the NY1 logo meant the station was run by one person. It's not, as the

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We rang in the New Year in Utah this year, starting with Provo's First Night celebration. It was really slow, thanks in part to intermitent rain and partly because it wasn't real exciting. Then the rain really came down and lightning strikes (!) knocked out the power to the band's sound system. So we went to a friend's place to watch television coverage of the Times Square celebration, where

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Earlier I lamented CNN's decision to dump Aaron Brown in favor of Anderson Cooper. Now, TV Newser has a graph from Turner Research that shows why CNN did it: Anderson Cooper's gaining in the younger demographics, while FNC's Greta Van Susteren picks up audience only in the 55 and over demo.

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The new World News Tonight format with co-anchors Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas debuts on ABC Tuesday, January 3. According to Variety, it won't be like CBS's failed two-anchor experiment that briefly paired Dan Rather with Connie Chung. Instead, the network plans on keeping one of the anchors in the field and another in the studio. The broadcast will be divided into four blocks, with one

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NPR this morning aired an interview with television interviewer Mike Wallace. Even more interesting than the interview on Morning Edition are the unaired portions posted on NPR's website. Nothing terribly new in the interviews, but I recommend them, particularly to my journalism students.Last month I read Wallace's new memoir, Between You and Me. It's a fun, quick read, but the real treasure is

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I just received word that BYU's broadcast program placed first in the Hearst Journalism Competition. The Hearst is the college equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. The first-placed overall ranking is based on individual third and fourth place finishes in the radio feature reporting competition and a seventh place finish in the television feature reporting competition. It is the highest overall

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Monday Night Football drew to a close this week. The brainchild of Roone Arledge and Pete Rozell lasted 36 years -- an eternity in television. Sadly, it is ending with the best set of commentators since the days of Howard Cozell and Frank Gifford. (Unfortunately, we had to suffer through a few of the later years with Dennis Miller.) Next season, Monday night games move to Disney-owned ESPN and

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The New York Times knew a year ago about President Bush's secret authorization to wiretap without court authorization, but chose to withhold the story. Why? That's what Washington and Lee University professor Edward Wasserman wants to know. He writes in the Miami Herald that the Times, which stumbled with Jayson Blair and Judith Miller, "blew this one," too.I don't know what The Times' brass

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Had a fabulous time at the Las Vegas Bowl, despite BYU's 7 point loss to Cal. It was a good game and I'm very impressed with the leg room at Sam Boyd Stadium. Not so impressed with the parking situation.The Las Vegas Review-Journal was kind in its assessment of the resurgent Cougars, while the Salt Lake papers were ruthless.

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NBC has followed ABC to the iTunes store. Along with "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives" you can now get Leno and "Law and Order." Did I mention the iPod video version came out just a week after I purchased a Nano? (Same thing happened when I bought my first iPod -- a new version came out within a week!) Next time I buy an iPod I'll have to post the news here -- then you'll know to wait a few

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My tickets for the Las Vegas Bowl arrived in the mail. I bought them through BYU and wow -- not very good seats. We'll be sitting somewhere in that red sliver you see on this map of Sam Boyd Stadium. Hopefully it will be fun anyway.Earlier: It's Cal in the LV Bowl

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Chicago's legendary City News Service is shutting down at the end of the year. It started in 1890 when Chicago newspapers agreed to save money by sharing the responsibility of covering overnight police news. Since then, it has been considered one of the country's premier training grounds for reporters of hard news. The famous dictim "When your mother says she loves you, check it out" comes

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ABC News has named Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff as anchors of World News Tonight, the New York Times reports. The network bypassed Charlie Gibson as Peter Jennings' replacement, instead keeping him at Good Morning America.Related:"No news on Couric is good news"Morning versus afternoon dilemnaEarlier: Anchor Wars

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It's official: BYU will face California at the Las Vegas Bowl. Two interesting backstories: First, BYU's athletic director, Tom Holmoe, was California's head football coach until 2001. (The Cougars pounded the Bears that year in California.) Secondly, California lost their bowl game last year to Texas Tech. Robert Anae brought the Texas Tech offense to Provo this year when he was hired as

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Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times reported that the military was bribing Iraqi journalists to print stories favorable to the U.S. It would not be a stretch to imagine the Hannity crowd screaming that anyone who questions this policy is an unpatriotic liberal. Yet, the irony of tampering with the press while trying to help Iraqis build a democracy should not be hard for anyone to see. The

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Most Americans are unhappy that we're in Iraq, but most believe it would be a mistake to pull out too soon. A fascinating viewpoint on NPR's Morning Edition today from a retired general and former director of the National Security Agency. Gen. William Odom says it will be a mess no matter when we leave and, in fact, we're making the situation worse as long as we are there. Says he: "The best way

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ABC's new Nightline debuted late last night. Some folks are wondering why the network would debut the show on a night the broadcast is delayed because of Monday Night Football. Hard to imagine it was an oversight. Perhaps ABC didn't want a high profile debut.Among the noticeable differences between the new and the old: the broadcast now originates from ABC's Times Square studio; it is now live

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It looks like BYU is waiting on the Fiesta Bowl to determine who its bowl opponent will be. How's that? Well, as I understand it, the Fiesta folks are considering inviting either Ohio State or Oregon to face Notre Dame in the January 2 game. If they choose Ohio State then Oregon goes to the Holiday Bowl and California may be available to play against BYU in the Las Vegas Bowl. But, if they

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Check out a fascinating read in New York magazine about the shifting network news world. Even as media executives try to figure out whether news on demand delivered to cell phones will be the Next Big Thing, the really big issue right now is who will anchor the nightly news at ABC and CBS. According to the article, "Katie Couric is CBS’s best shot, its only shot, and its long shot all rolled

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More proof that television stations can be relied upon to misbehave during ratings sweeps: The Fox station (any surprise there?) in Charlotte upset viewers over the weekend with a tease that suggested teenagers were engaging in oral sex. The writing and the video were highly suggestive.Why the shock? We do, after all, live in a deregulated media environment. We asked for it, and we're getting

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Two pieces of news from my home and native land:The Globe and Mail reporting that the Canadian government has fallen tonight in a non-confidence vote in parliament. The vote had been expected since a report was released several weeks ago detailing alleged corruption on behalf of the Liberal party in the late 1990s. The non-confidence vote means the prime minister will tomorrow ask the governor

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The New York Times profiles the beautiful and daring CBS News war correspondent Lara Logan this morning. Logan, who joined CBS in 2002, has been targeted as an upcoming star in a revamped CBS Evening News. While it has not yet been revealed what else a renovated Evening News might include, newly installed CBS News president Sean McManus says Logan will have a role because it's obvious that she

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It was one of the classiest exits from a television news broadcast: Ted Koppel closed out his 26-year Nightline run last night by exerpting interviews he did with Morrie Schwartz the Lou Gehrig's victim of Tuesdays with Morrie fame. Then he ended the broadcast with a warning: give my successors a chance, or ABC will replace Nightline with a comedy program.TV Newser has a transcription of

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BYU will go to its first bowl game in four years. According to reports in various Utah papers this morning, the Las Vegas Bowl will announce at an 11 a.m. (MST) news conference that it is inviting BYU to face a yet-to-be-named Pac 10 team on December 22.Ending the season with a 6-5 record, the team was much improved, despite disappointing losses to Utah and San Diego State, and a heartbreaker

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The Washington Post reports that legendary Time magazine columnist Hugh Sidey has died. He was 78. Sidey has covered the White House since President Eisenhower and was known for his column, "The Presidency."More: AP story by Daniel Douglass (via Indianapolis Star)

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132679359214066862005-11-22T08:29:00.000-07:002005-11-22T10:56:27.363-07:00

A piece in USA Today earlier this week points out what many journalism educators have noticed: more and more students want in. At BYU we've had to turn away more each application period for the past couple of years. As the USA Today piece points out, it's a curious phenomenon, given what low esteem journalism is held these days.Related: "Confessions of a College Journalist -- why aspiring

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132674344285675622005-11-22T08:24:00.000-07:002005-11-22T20:24:11.226-07:00

A facsinating piece on NPR's Morning Edition today concerning media giant Clear Channel. The company is the country's largest broadcaster and the world's largest concert promoter. But profits and stock prices have been down recently, so the company is considering spinning off its concert promotion and billboard companies.But that's not all.The company says it needs to own more radio and

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132589759211511812005-11-21T09:13:00.000-07:002005-11-22T10:47:27.733-07:00

Columnist Gail Shister (via TV Newser) writes that ABC News has made its decision on a replacement for the late Peter Jennings on World News Tonight. No announcement yet, but plenty of speculation. The announcement is likely being held off until after Ted Koppell's last broadcast.

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Perhaps there's no better poster boy for media convergence than media critic Howard Kurtz. He writes the "Media Notes" column for the Washington Post and hosts CNN's weekly "Reliable Sources," which recently expanded to one hour.But, does Kurtz have a conflict of interest? Other print reporters appear on television, but, as an article in today's New York Times suggests, Kurtz's activities may

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132284627911128032005-11-17T19:31:00.000-07:002005-11-29T08:30:38.496-07:00

Marcy McGinnis seemed to be full of smiles and optimism last week when, along with some other university professors, we met with her in New York. But, the new president of the news division is pushing her out so he can pick his own deputy. Her last day as vice president of hard news at CBS is Friday.Marcy has worked at CBS for more than 30 years, working her way up from secretary. I first

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132285329555638802005-11-16T21:37:00.000-07:002005-11-22T20:26:07.196-07:00

Internal investigators for the Corporation for Public Broadcast report that former CPB head Ken Tomlinson broke the law when he influenced PBS programming and paid a consultant without telling the board.Tomlinson, a long-time conservative activist who reportedly coordinated his efforts with White House aide Karl Rove, had already stepped aside as chairman and has now resigned from the board

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I couldn't resist posting this vanity photo of me posing on the Nightly News set during a visit this week to NBC. We were scheduled to meet with Brian Williams, but he needed to go to his child's school. Instead we had a great visit with Albert Oetgen, the senior producer of Nightly. While we were waiting for Al to get out of the "share" meeting we snooped in the studio until Rehema Ellis

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Ted Koppel's last Nightline broadcast will be November 22, so the goodbye interviews are beginning. A nice Kurtz piece in the Washington Post today.I have mixed feelings. I love Nightline and admire the work Koppel has done. But I'm disappointed that he refused to give me an interview about former ABC News president Elmer Lower. I'm Lower's biographer and in 2001 Koppel had agreed to be

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132277289308893522005-11-04T08:22:00.000-07:002005-11-17T19:53:55.413-07:00

I made it into the Salt Lake Tribune today. Columnist Paul Rolly leads with letters I found recently at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston from individuals complaining to President Kennedy that he had appointed a "pinko" and "commie" by putting Edward R. Murrow at the head of the USIA. One of those letters was from the principal and faculty of the Springville Junior High in

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132290259756285592005-11-02T21:59:00.000-07:002005-11-23T07:51:23.486-07:00

I'm so mad that CNN is dumping my favorite show. According to Lost Remote, Aaron Brown is out, his time slot being taking over by the cable net's new flavor of the month: Anderson Cooper.What a shame: NewsNight was a thoughtful newscast, particularly by cable standards. I'm not sure it will help CNN with ratings. But then, who knows what will help.Cooper, who is Gloria Vanderbilt's son, has

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132276451196777392005-10-31T18:10:00.000-07:002005-11-17T19:56:05.956-07:00

Utah radio station for women, KUTR ("Utah's New AM 820) has a new look on its website. My wife does the morning show with Kurt Bestor and this is their fun new picture featured on the site. The site is prettier than the simple "place holder" page it replaces, but IMHO its user interface needs some work.

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132283776063217022005-10-26T07:18:00.000-06:002005-11-17T20:16:16.063-07:00

Les Moonves is making good on his promise to blow up his news division. Andrew Heyward is out as president of CBS News. He'll be replaced by CBS Sports President Sean McManus. Get ready for the earth to move there.Reports are Heyward hung on long enough to reach his 55th birthday and cash out with more dough. Suggestions were made earlier in the year that Heyward should have been fired for the

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I'll be presenting at the BYU Teachnology Expo on November 4. My topic will be a software application I've been developing with the Center for Instructional Design during my Teaching with Technology Fellowship.The software application is nearing completion. My TV news producing students have been testing the beta version this semester; next semester students in the class will be using version 1

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132326536121098202005-10-16T07:51:00.001-06:002005-11-18T08:08:56.123-07:00

Capping a busy Homecoming Week, we hosted a conference on journalism convergence this week at BYU. Quint Randle and I gave a presentation on the state of convergence at BYU. One of the first (if not the first) journalism programs in the U.S. to embrace the concept, we've now backed off. The print and broadcast sequences have been separated administratively (although they continue to share some

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1132327371989616232005-10-15T20:36:00.000-06:002005-11-21T06:52:12.856-07:00

Elise Christensen Soukup, a 2002 graduate of BYU's journalism program has this week's cover story in Newsweek. "The Mormon Odyssey" details the history and growth of the LDS Church. Elise served an internship with Newsweek in 2002, winning the Internship Student of the Year Award from the Cooperative Education and Internship Association. She was subsequently hired on to work fulltime.Elise's

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127923395423329332005-09-28T09:42:00.000-06:002005-09-28T10:08:58.713-06:00

Normally, I don't read AARP The Magazine (at least not yet), but this month's issue has a cover story on Katie Couric in which the Today Show anchor fires back at accusations made last spring in the New York Times that she was a "mercurial diva" whose "pereptory voice and clickety stiletto heels" sent her staff members into hiding. Couric calls such depictions "malarky," but does admit that she

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127873857498751142005-09-27T20:34:00.000-06:002005-09-28T10:15:43.360-06:00

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian David McCullough was on the Brigham Young University campus this morning. After visiting history students and faculty he gave an address at the Marriott Center, then a question and answer session. Professor McCullough spoke on the topic of his latest book, 1776.McCullough said that the most enjoyable part of historical research is the research itself.

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Reports from New Orleans earlier this month of rampant violence were exaggerated, according to an investigation by the Times-Picayune.Early on there were reports of killings and baby rapes inside the Superdome and the New Orleans Convention Center. Subsequent police investigations show those reports cannot be substantiated, according to the Associated Press.Related: Brownie says he warned White

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127788937847420052005-09-26T20:42:00.000-06:002005-09-27T22:30:02.673-06:00

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes that there are two new Washington games: "Find the Brownie" and "Two Degrees of Jack Abramoff"The objective in Find the Brownie is to find an obscure but important government job held by someone whose only apparent qualifications for that job are political loyalty and personal connections. It's inspired by President Bush's praise, four days after

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127677706639267872005-09-25T13:29:00.000-06:002005-09-25T15:36:53.283-06:00

It was bad enough watching a 41-29 lead melt away, but BYU fans had an even harder time losing in the end to Texas Christian because of a muffed call.In one of the most exciting BYU football games of the past few years, TCU "scored" a touchdown in overtime to beat the Cougars 51-50. It was a pretty neat trick, considering TCU didn't even have possession of the ball. As television footage and

Dalenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127446155423107432005-09-23T06:21:00.000-06:002005-09-22T21:33:53.166-06:00

New York Times critic A.O. Scott likes the upcoming movie on Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy. In today's Times, Scott writes: "Good Night, and Good Luck" is a passionate, thoughtful essay on power, truth-telling and responsibility... The title evokes Murrow's trademark sign-off, and I can best sum up my own response by recalling the name of his flagship program: See it now." The

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127400967230625772005-09-22T07:35:00.000-06:002005-09-22T09:14:25.070-06:00

When I tuned in at about 6:20 last evening, KSL-TV was broadcasting live pictures of a JetBlue plane circling over Los Angeles International Airport. The plane, an Airbus A310 (flying from who-knew where--I assumed Salt Lake--because I did not hear those facts from anchors Bruce Lindsay and Nadine Wimmer for the first 15 minutes), was preparing for an emergency landing because its front landing

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New York Times technology columnist David Pogue calls it an "aha moment": JVC has a new video camera that records directly to a hard drive in the camera itself. This innovation allows the camera's user to skip a step in loading the video onto a PC. Instead of playing video in real time from a tape, video can now be shifted to a computer in the same way audio is quickly transferred to an

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127399020837333642005-09-22T07:14:00.000-06:002005-09-22T08:58:42.816-06:00

A small television station in St. George, Utah is broadcast news in both English and Spanish. The Deseret Morning News profiles the small station, KCSG-TV, which is currently owned by a local car dealer. The move to give the news in Spanish is in response to a growing Hispanic community in Southern Utlah. The station is also party to a "media convergence" arrangement with the Deseret Morning

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127329533322612702005-09-21T13:00:00.000-06:002005-11-22T08:54:55.136-07:00

The New York Post reports that ABC News is considering three individuals as possible replacements for Ted Koppel: Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran and Martin Bashir. All three are already in-house; Bashir, who is best known for his documentary and interview with Michael Jackson, joined ABC two years ago.Kopell leaves Nightline in November.

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This Sunday's New York Times Magazine will feature a brief interview with Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, who launches his own fake news show next month. Colbert tells the Times that his three children are not allowed to watch the Daily Show and that he is "oddly normative." "I go to church. I would say that there would be plenty of Catholics in the world who would think of me as not that

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127308530013815462005-09-21T07:09:00.000-06:002005-09-21T07:15:54.106-06:00

Peter Jennings's memorial service yesterday drew an eclectic crowd. According to the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz, everyone from "Royal Canadian Mounties to Yo-Yo Ma, from Bob Schieffer and Brian Williams to Jon Stewart and Alan Alda," as well as ordinary people -- 2,000 in all.Earlier: Remembering Peter Jennings

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127276658866172642005-09-21T06:20:00.000-06:002005-09-21T08:15:06.620-06:00

USA Today reports even lower approval numbers for President Bush. The paper's poll, taken over the weekend, put's the president's approval rattings at 40 percent, his disapproval ratting at 58 percent.According to USA Today, Bush's approval rating is "lower than any other post-World War II president at this point in his second term except for Richard Nixon, who was battling the Watergate scandal.

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Reuters reports that former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather gave an emotional address at the Fordham University School of Law on Monday, in which he said there is a "climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen."According to the report, Rather said politicans are better than ever at applying pressure on corporate media owners when they don't like the media companies'

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1127270191669470882005-09-20T20:26:00.000-06:002005-09-21T12:39:45.530-06:00

The new George Clooney-directed movie about Edward R. Murrow makes its U.S. debut Friday at the New York Film Festival. The rest of us will have to wait a few weeks more: it opens in theaters nationwide on October 7.As the New York Times reported over the weekend, the movie focuses on Murrow's fearless reporting of Joseph McCarthy's excesses.Related:Movie trailerMovie website

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The Deseret Morning News traces the history of the BYU football team uniform. As Cougar fans know, the team has changed its duds four times since becoming a Nike school in the late 1990s. Now, we're back to the classic style, but keeping the deep blue. Rise and Shout!Related: Cougar alum Omarr Morgan saves game for CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders

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US News and World Report is claiming in its Washington Whispers column that NBC News correspondent Campbell Brown may be in line to replace Katie Couric as Today anchor. The magazine reports that Brown impressed NBC executives with her reporting from the Gulf Coast over the past few weeks. NBC hopes Couric stays, but realizes she is a top candidate to become an evening anchor at either CBS or

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Lost Remote has posted a link to a report what may be a new Blackberry, the 8700. Apparently this thing will have GPS and high-speed data capabilities.

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Earlier I noted the entry of the new CBS News blog, the Public Eye. My first visits to the site left a favorable impression, marred only by my inability to get the video to work.Dick Meyer, the editorial director for CBSNews.com left a comment on that entry, encouraging me to try again. I have and, Eureka, it worked! According to Meyer, Eye has received numerous complaints, but not about video

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This past year has marked the end of an era, with turnover at the anchor desks of ABC, CBS, and NBC. Last night the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences noted this by honoring Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, and the late Peter Jennings.Meanwhile, a memorial service is scheduled for tomorrow morning at Carnegie Hall for Peter Jennings.Earlier: Jennings Memorial Service ScheduledRemembering Peter

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1126881615024215192005-09-16T07:21:00.000-06:002005-09-16T16:09:32.083-06:00

It's tougher than you think being president. Sure you have your own special song and people to read the newspaper for you -- but, try leaving a meeting unnoticed to use the bathroom. President Bush needed to go while he was in a UN meeting this week. Probably not wanting to offend anyone by suddenly leaving to answer nature's call, he passed a note to Condi Rice. That note was captured by a

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1126793691300275842005-09-15T08:04:00.000-06:002005-09-15T08:41:36.833-06:00

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the best television newscast in Utah is the one that is watched the least. Clear Channel-owned KTVX, which brands itself as "News 4 Utah," took away the Best Newscast Emmy for the Rocky Mountain region. That same newscast is the least watched 10 p.m. newscast in the Salt Lake City DMA, according to Nielsen ratings. The station also won best team news coverage

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The New York Times reports that President Bush's poll numbers are as bad as they've ever been. The president's latest approval ratings have apparently been affected by skyrocketing gas prices, turmoil in Iraq, and the government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina. The New York Times poll suggests that even the president's strong point -- handling terrorism -- is losing the country's support.

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In his Senate confirmation hearings, John Roberts, the nominee for Chief Justice of the United States, appeared to defend the right of the news media to have access to public events. "If it's a situation in which the public is being given access, you can't discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don't have access, because their access rights, of course,

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Ex-FEMA head Michael Brown is now talking about the government's reaction to Hurricane Katrina. In his first extensive interview since resigning, Brown told the New York Times that he does not blame the White House for a slow federal response to the disaster. Instead, he says Louisianna's governor is to blame for the situation going, in Brown's words, "to hell in a handbasket." However, Brown's

Dalenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1126708603733459312005-09-14T08:29:00.000-06:002005-09-14T11:54:30.516-06:00

The New York Times is moving further into the pay-for-content model for its online site. Last year the paper started charging users for its "Newstracker" service, which sends e-mails to alert readers of stories pertaining to their interests. Starting September 19, readers will have to cough up $49.95 a year to access certain columns and multi-media features. The paper is calling the service "

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President Bush has done something he's never done before -- admitted fault. Yesterday the president said that "the extent to which the federal government didn't do its job right" in response to Hurricane Katrina, he takes responsibility.This rare admission is undoubtedly an attempt to stem plummeting poll numbers and a continuous barrage of criticism that the president was slow to react to the

Dalenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1126709926513565722005-09-14T06:40:00.000-06:002005-09-19T08:52:35.363-06:00

CBS News has launched a new behind-the-scenes blog. It joins NBC News, which has been publishing Brian Williams' "Daily Nightly" blog for the past month. CBS's entry, the "Public Eye" goes a step further and offers video of story meetings. Although, I must wish you "luck" in getting the video to stream. (Please see my update to this comment.) Today Public Eye offers up a blast from the past: a

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The notion that NPR is liberally-biased is "urban myth," according to Kevin Klose, NPR's president and CEO. Klose and NPR executive vice president Ken Stern are quoted in today's Chicago Tribune.Stern blames the perception problem on Ken Tomlinson, Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: "The problem with Tomlinson isn't that he disrupted funding or affected our journalism, because

Dalenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042602.post-1126712296992566142005-09-13T08:28:00.000-06:002005-09-21T12:47:34.910-06:00

An interesting development in the online world: Yahoo has hired former NBC News correspondent Kevin Sites. You may remember Sites from his coverage in Iraq. He's actually a freelance who is known for operating on his own and maintaining a blog about his coverage.According to the Los Angeles Times: The program, "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone," is the clearest evidence yet that Yahoo feels ready to

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According to the New York Post, MSNBC President Rick Kaplan may be on his way out. Kaplan was reportedly passed over to replace Neal Shapiro, who stepped down last week as president of NBC News.Kaplan, former president of CNN and producer at ABC News, has only been on the job at MSNBC since early 2004.

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