Month: August 2010

  • Train, train

    OK, Dolly Parton doesn’t have anything to do with this, but we should “train, train.” Two training opportunities are coming up that might interest journalists in Tennessee (and elsewhere). APME’s NewsTrain rolls into Nashville, Sept. 23-24. Some heavy hitters will be on hand: * KEYNOTE SPEECH ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 23: TOM CURLEY, president and CEO…

  • That vexing pay wall question

    A University of Kentucky gradudate student is doing an online survey on whether readers would pay to access newspaper content. Help him out by taking the survey.

  • While Tim O’Brien was in Knoxville

    Knoxnews’ Talid Magdy recorded one of my favorite musicians, Tim O’ Brien, at a recent WDVX Blue Plate show. O’Brien has a new CD out, Chicken and Egg. This video is of him doing “Suzanna,” which is on the CD. O’Brien, who first came to my attention as a member of the Colorado-based band Hot…