News & Public Affairs
Ethics questions for media attending Republican convention kick-off party listen
08/22/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: media, ethics, RNC, Tropicana Field
Some experts in media ethics are wondering if it’s appropriate that some 15,000 journalists will be wined and dined at a kick-off event for the Republican National Convention in St. Petersburg on Sunday. Kelly McBride, senior faculty at the Poynter Institute, said journalists who go might give the public the wrong impression.
Be the first to comment“Most independent newsrooms have a policy that says you cannot take freebies from sources that you intend to cover because it could compromise your independence or ...
Host committee expects more than 90,000 hotel room nights for Republican convention listen
08/07/12 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, host committee, tourism, media, Republican Convention
In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, Ken Jones, the president of the Tampa Bay Host Committee for the Republican National Convention said the number of hotel rooms booked for the Republican National Convention is even more than they originally predicted.
Be the first to comment“We thought we were going to book 75,000 room-nights. As of this morning we were north of 90,000 room-nights and approaching 100,000. Part of it is I think there’s some come early stay late traffic, part of it is we just got a bet...
"Florida Voices" co-founders talk about their on-line media venture
04/27/12 Lisa MarzilliLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida Voices, Rosemary Goudreau, Rosemary Curtiss, Bill Cotterell, Mary Jo Melone, Martin Dyckman, Paula Dockery, media
On today's Last Call we were joined in the studio by Rosemary Goudreau and Rosemary Curtiss, co-founders of the new online media website Florida Voices - The State Opinion Page.
The two women, who have a combined total of 55 years in the newspaper business, launched Florida Voices in mid-December. The website features a stellar line-up of columnists and editors including Mary Jo Melo...
2 commentsTampa Police say they'll work with local reporters on Republican Convention logistics listen
04/26/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, Laura McElroy, Tampa Police, Jane Castor, media, Republican Convention
Earlier this month, Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor hosted a media roundtable to gather concerns from local journalists about reporting during August’s Republican Convention. Representatives from news organizations across the Bay area asked about everything from parking to wearing gas masks.
Most of the answers to reporters’ questions started with the words “We’ll tell you in June”. That’s when Chief Jane Castor p...
Be the first to commentPolitical Scientist Benjamin Barber discusses the importance of each citizen in solving global issues listen
03/05/12 Liz McKibbonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: ethics, economics, Media, Benjamin Barber, terrorism
Some of the most important issues affecting people today—disease, terrorism, climate change—are not defined by region, but instead are global problems. That’s the take of political scientist Benjamin Barber, who spoke Wednesday night on The Ethics of Global Citizenship at St. Petersburg College in Seminole.
Barber began by illustrating just how connected the United States is to the rest of the world. He said that many Americans focus on the borders that outline...
Be the first to commentPolitifact rates candidates statements from last night's GOP debate in Tampa
01/24/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Media, 2012 Election, Florida primary election
Last night the four GOP presidential candidates took part in a debate on the USF campus in Tampa. Here to tell us how they did in terms of truthfulness is the editor of Politifact Florida Angie Drobnic Holan.
Be the first to commentNew online source for statewide newspaper editorials
12/29/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida Voices, Rosemary Goudreau, newspapers, editorials, Media
Coming up today we'll talk with the former editorial page editor of The Tampa Tribune Rosemary Guodreau. Guodreau has co-founded a new web site, Florida Voices, which compiles editorials from the state's newspapers along with original content. We'll talk about online media, the future of media and the role newspapers play as watchdogs in our society.
Be the first to commentBlack Friday Madness And The Origins Of FOX News
11/25/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday)
Tags: origins of FOX news, shopping madness, media
Coming up today we'll discuss Black Friday and the way Americans are being urged to shop. But first I want to play back a bit of a segment played last night on MSNBC regarding the origins of FOX News -- which can be traced back to the Nixon administration. Here's Chris Hayes from MSNBC last night.
I also want to play a segment of a video in which people in North Ca...
Be the first to commentScientists and journalists discuss collaboration listen
10/28/11 Jean Henry TelcyWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Media, science, public health, USF
About 80 people listened to leaders in journalism and science discuss the relationship between media and the scientific establishment in this event co-hosted by the University of South Florida. One of the organizers was Mary Woolley, President and CEO of Research!America, an alliance aimed at “making research to improve health a higher national priority.”
According to Claudia Dreifus, interviewer for the science section of the New York Times, the ro...
Be the first to commentWMNF's station manager Jim Bennett resigns listen
09/21/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
The station manager of this radio station, 88.5-FM WMNF, resigned early yesterday morning. Details are still emerging, but Letty Valdes, president of the board of directors of the Nathan B. Stubblefield Foundation, said Jim Bennett submitted his letter of resignation several hours after a Monday night board meeting.
14 comments"On Tuesday September 20th Jim Bennett resigned his position as station manager for personal reasons and the Board of Directors accepted his resignation. We appreciate Jim's ...
