Month: January 2009

  • Quotable: Not everything adds value

    As a former editor of mine used to say, this stuff subtracts from the sum of human knowledge. — William S. Rukeyser

  • Confabbing on journalism in Knoxville

    I’m on the program of the founding conference of ICONN or the Intercollegiate Online News Network. The conference will be held at the University of Tennessee on Jan 15 and 16. The group “is a set of individuals, academic programs and professional organizations dedicated connecting student web journalists and campus news websites and to advancing…

  • Veteran TV exec sees cuts in newscasts and newspaper home delivery in TN

    Some predictions for 2009 from MIke Sechrist, a broadcast veteran and now entrepreneur. I would not be surprised if the Tennessean cuts back on home delivery as a number of papers have already. I would not be surprised if one or two local TV stations cut back to one or two newscasts a day. And…