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Howard Troxler on Media
05/22/13 Warren EllyLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Howard Troxler, media, politics, Tampa Tribune, Tampa Bay Times, Journalism
In Wednesday's edition of Last Call, Warren Elly discusses the fall of the journalism industry with guest Howard Troxler, a political columnist and reporter.
Find the transcript below: Today… another in our series of broadcasts focusing on the decline and fall of Journalism and the American News Media… after the one-two punch of instant Internet and the contraction of the American economy.Among the consequences critics say; an ever more corrupt political system, reinforced by the constan...
Be the first to commentSeth Mnookin on medicine, science and fear listen
10/26/11 Dawn MorganWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: journalism, science, medicine, viruses, fear
Science writer and journalist Seth Mnookin's third book, released earlier this year, is The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science and Fear.
WMNF's Dawn Morgan spoke with Mnookin about the fear explosion in the media and what doctors and parents alike can do to combat misinformation.
Be the first to comment"It was something that I noticed in conversations with my friends. A lot of them were either young parents or expectant parents. And that hadn’t been a topic that had been on my radar previous...
Future of Journalism: La Gaceta publisher Patrick Manteiga listen
09/29/11 Dawn MorganWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Journalism, Patrick Manteiga, newspapers, community, Ybor City
Earlier this month an L.A Times editorial pointed out how 8000 small weekly newspapers in this country are thriving.
Ybor City’s trilingual La Gaceta is one of them. Patrick Manteiga is the third generation publisher and editor of the paper, which he said had its most profitable year ever in 2010.
In this third installment of WMNF’s Future of Journalism series, reporter Dawn Morgan talks with Manteiga about the struggles and successes of his small newspaper.
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Future of Journalism: Judy Muller says small newspapers doing fine listen
09/20/11 Dawn MorganWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Journalism, Judy Muller
Judy Muller is a journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
Her new book, Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns, tells of the current success of small weekly newspapers during a time when larger city daily papers struggle.
WMNF’s Dawn Morgan interviewed Muller for our series Future of Journalism:
They’re ...
Be the first to commentFuture of Journalism interview with Peter Osnos listen
08/30/11 Dawn MorganWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday
Tags: Journalism, The New Yorker, Media
For the second installment of WMNF’s ongoing series on the Future of Journalism, reporter Dawn Morgan spoke with publisher and journalism stalwart Peter Osnos, whose legacy spans well beyond his 45 years in the business.
Be the first to commentI’ve got a lot of experience behind me and what I’m trying to do with it all is make myself useful as well as productive in what I think is an unusual combination of experiences, which is to say both as a publisher, as an editor, as a writer, as a journalist. And when yo...
Interview with NPR's David Folkenflik: Changes in the journalism industry series listen
08/22/11 Dawn MorganWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: New York Times, newspapers, Journalism, Media
David Folkenflik started his journalism career nearly two decades ago as a newspaper reporter. Since 2004, he has reported on the media for National Public Radio. WMNF’s Dawn Morgan spoke with Folkenflik earlier this week about holding his own industry - and employer - accountable.
Be the first to comment"The media is an institution much like government or major religious institutions or financial institutions or the like that have a lot of influence and deserve scrutiny themselves, just as much as any other. T...
Future of journalism series: Extended interview with David Folkenflik listen
08/22/11 Dawn MorganWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Media, Journalism, future of journalism, npr, David Folkenflik
What will the future hold for journalism? WMNF's Dawn Morgan is exploring that question in a series of interviews. Part 1 is with David Folkenflik, who began his journalism career nearly two decades ago as a newspaper reporter. Since 2004, he has reported on the media for NPR. This is an extended version of the interview we played on air.
What is it like to report on your own ...
Be the first to commentSouth Florida Society of Professional Journalists' Sunshine State awards draws attention to connection between new and traditional media listen
06/09/11 Dawn Morgan ElliottWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: journalism, SPJ, blogging, new media, Media
Changing technology and a bad economy have led to newsroom layoffs, and sent waves of uncertainty throughout the journalism industry.
A direct result can be seen this month as the South Florida Society of Professional Journalists holds an awards contest honoring journalists, bloggers and those in between.
Robert Steele is Director of The Prindle Institute for Ethics and a distinguished professor of journalism ethics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
He also serves as th...
Be the first to commentDemocracy Now!'s Amy Goodman recounts her arrest at 2008 Republican National Convention listen
08/31/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Amy Goodman, WMNF, Republican Convention, journalism, media
Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman was keynote speaker at WMNF’s 2nd annual Peace Awards on Saturday. On the Evening News last night we played part of her speech where she criticized opposition to the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan.
Today we play an excerpt of Amy Goodman’s account of her arrest at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
We’ll make Amy Goodman’s e...
Be the first to commentPBS Newshour's spotlight city tour rolls into St Petersburg to focus on the changing media landscape listen
04/13/10 Tom BaurWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Media, Public broadcasting system, national public radio, corporation for public broadcasting, healthcare, journalism
Newspapers are laying-off reporters. More people are going online to find their news. WMNF’s Tom Baur reports from St Petersburg where a panel of experts discussed “The Changing Media Landscape.”
As part of a five city two year national tour PBS Newshour hosted a forum today at the Poynter Institute for Interactive Media in St Petersburg. Their news anchor Gwen Ifill moderated a panel of local media newsmakers co-hosted by [WEDU](www.wedu.or...
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