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HERE AND THER WITH DAVE MARASH

This blog is dormant while I enjoy broadcasting my radio show "HERE AND THERE WITH DAVE MARASH" on public radio station KSFR in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Listen to the livestream at KSFR.org Mon-Thursday 5P mountain time (GMT -7) right after the news.  

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dmarash@ksfr.org

@davemarashKSFR

BUY INTO A POSSIBLE DREAM

Having once again fallen into an opportunity at a kind of professional heaven, I am asking you to help me furnish it.

Taking a share of the news director job (with Zelie Pollon) at KSFR, Santa Fe, NM’s community radio station has presented me with a multiplicity of opportunities in which, I am hoping, you will invest.   

Here’s my plan.

First, nothing about KSFR’s news programming is broken; nothing needs fixing.  Already we offer 2 hour-long news programs at 7AM and Noon, and news summaries that feature local news and BBC bulletins hourly from 6AM to 7PM.  We program 4 hours of BBC World Service news overnight and an hour of BBC News at 6PM, and Amy Goodman and Democracy Now every afternoon at 3.

To that, I propose to add energy, innovation, and lots of shoe-leather.  Zelie and I will be recruiting an at first small, but rapidly growing group of volunteers and interns who will be trained in the fine crafts of reporting, editing, writing, producing and delivering radio journalism.  It is my hope to have a well-prepared reporter with a digital recorder covering every neighborhood, every community, every police or political jurisdiction, every pueblo and tribe in our listening area.  With their help, we will bring to our listeners both the finest and the fullest coverage of our incredibly varied, diverse, accomplished region.

I guarantee that anyone who listens carefully and works hard will graduate from the Marash Kollege of Newsical Knowledge a clearer thinker, a better writer, and should this be their ambition, a more employable broadcast journalist.

But the hard truth is, only Zelie and I come cheap.  The equipment interns will need, digital recorders, a few office computers to edit and assemble their packaged reports, even the new office furniture that will help make a former cd music library into a newsroom cost money.  This is where you come in.

News is an indispensable element for a successful democracy.  News not only informs citizens, it’s constant process of creating, destroying and recreating conventional wisdom provides the basis for reasoned dialogue, for civil disputation.  News done well enables people to make their own opinions based on established facts.

“Doing” news may involve managing complex subjects and conflicting interpretations, but it is a simple process aimed at 4 simple goals, which, when I first devised them for my students at Shantou University in China, I called “The 4 C’s:”  factual Correctness, presented in Context, with Clarity, to be perfectly understood, and Communication, to be remembered.

We will also be teaching how reporters prepare, gather elements, assemble and order them, then how they edit the sound and write the script and voice it for maximum impact.

Then we turn ‘em loose, and when they come back to base, monitor and mentor them as they construct their reports.

Oh, there’s one more thing I’d like to sell you.  Once our building program is well launched, I plan to take myself back to the airwaves for an hour-long news interview show tentatively titled Dave Marash: Here and There.

The title reflect the focus of the show: 2 interview segments, one examining a story or issue local to Santa Fe or New Mexico, the other, bringing to our listeners the observations of reporters or experts who are where world or national news is being made.

53 years of experience in radio, TV and even print journalism, covering news, sports, science and the arts (what I call “the most various and least cumulative resume in broadcast news,”) will inform my interrogations of informed people who are or have recently been “at the scene of the crime.”

Your contributions will help get me some assistance in putting these shows together (We’ll start with one a week and see…) as well as underwriting a training program that could become a model, not just for digital reporting, but for local or independent news coverage.

Here’s the best news, you (and everyone else in the world) can listen to the result on ksfr.org’s 24 hour livestream.

Here’s how to give.  If you go to the website, repeating – ksfr.org – you will see in the upper right, a button soliciting contributions.  Easy instructions will follow your keystroke.

Or you can call in your contribution, locally at 505 428 1383 or there’s a toll-free number 1 866 907 5737.  Call between 9AM and 9PM ET (7A-7P MT).  And yes, there is swag, baseball caps, tote bags, stainless steel water bottles and tumblers, all proudly bearing the KSFR logo.  Ask the volunteer who answers the phone.

Feel free to mention my name or the news training project (or not).  But please call and help.

Good things will happen.

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.