Thursday, March 6, 2014

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: THE SLOWDOWN EXPLAINED


Dear Readers,

As I'm sure you've noticed, the pace of observations from this corner has slowed.  Considerably.

Part of that had to do with two glorious weeks in NYC, seeing friends, hearing music, and er.... eating.  But the rest of the diversion has to do with my new job.

This week, I started as News Director of KSFR, the public radio station in Santa Fe, NM, a job I am delighted to be sharing with Zelie Pollon, a superb journalist with experience covering stories in depth from New Mexico to Iraq. 

For me, this is a perfect opportunity to teach once again my philosophy and practice of news, to create an old-fashioned workshop of news, which turns out, not only superior radio journalism, but trained newspeople.

KSFR, 101.1 on your FM dial, but more to the point, universally available, livestreaming on the internet at www.ksfr.org  already benefits from a stream of volunteers from the diverse, but highly sophisticated and engaged communities of Santa Fe.  Our next step will be to recruit at every local high school and college wannabe journalists ready to trade time and energy for training and mentoring and a chance truly to "do news" as interns.

The possibilities are inspiring.

Beyond that, I hope soon to begin, probably in April, a once-a-week (at least to start) one-hour interview show focused on news, local and global.

The resulting podcast should be accessible here and at the KSFR website mentioned above.  Once it's ready to launch, I will, of course, let you know through the usual routes, Facebook, Twitter (thank you, Amy) and email.

As I will when I launch future text posts which will, I fear, be fewer and farther between, as I absorb and am absorbed by this new adventure in my first medium: radio.


1 comment:

  1. Congrats! I am so jealous of the people you'll be teaching.

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