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Today is World Population Day and to commemorate it, ViewChange.org is showcasing 20 films about population issues.
Shown here is “Love and Life: Live on Air”, the story of a 20-year-old Ugandan radio journalist who hosts a show that attempts to dispel myths and misunderstandings about (safe) sex.
RADIO HOST
Hey yo, what’s up guys? This is the Straight Talk radio show. It is fun, educative and hilarious. Stay tuned.RADIO CALLER 1
Dear Straight Talk radio: If I put toothpaste on my penis before sex, will my girlfriend get pregnant?RADIO CALLER 2
Dear Straight Talk: I’ve missed my period for two months. Am I pregnant?VOICEOVER
Uganda, in east Africa, has many problems relating to sexual and reproductive health. In lots of cases, young people’s lack of sex education is to blame.MAN 1
Is it true that if you drink a lot soda and have sex with an HIV-infected person, you cannot get the virus?
The rest of this documentary can be viewed on ViewChange.org.
Filthy Lucre
Radio hosts make serious coin pimping for their sponsors.
Via Politico:
If you’re a regular listener of Glenn Beck’s radio show and you wanted to contribute to a political group that would advance the populist conservative ideals he touts on his show, you’d have plenty of reason to think that FreedomWorks was your best investment.
But if you’re a fan of Mark Levin’s radio show, you’d have just as much cause to believe that Americans for Prosperity, a FreedomWorks rival, was the most effective conservative advocacy group. And, if Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity are who you listen to, you’d be hearing a steady stream of entreaties to support the important work of the Heritage Foundation.
That’s not coincidence. In search of donations and influence, the three prominent conservative groups are paying hefty sponsorship fees to the popular talk show hosts. Those fees buy them a variety of promotional tie-ins, as well as regular on-air plugs – praising or sometimes defending the groups, while urging listeners to donate – often woven seamlessly into programming in ways that do not seem like paid advertising
I sure wish we could get rid of that word “content” to refer to writing, photography, drawing, and design online. The very word breathes indifference — why would one bother about the quality of work when it’s referred to as “content”? I’m sorry to respond to your good question with a cranky diatribe, but this word has crept from New Media over to Radio Broadcasting where I live in my little cave and now my Show has become Content and is sent around to stations in a nice digital package that squashes the sound. Public radio, which holds itself up as a believer in quality, is cutting corners on all sides and I see this perfidious word “content” as part of the downward slide. I loathe the word. It’s like referring to Omaha [Beach] as a development.
Garrison Keillor, host of NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion, answering a question about how he creates content for his show.
British Journal of Photography, Photography as “Content”.
120 plays
An audio collage — or postcard — is a great technique for capturing the resonant ambience of that which you’re reporting on.
WNYC’s Brian Lehrer used it yesterday as he explored potential Republican presidential candidates for the 2012 election. (For those outside the United States, our election cycle is an endless processional that begins pretty much after the last once ends.)
If my ears are tuned correctly I think the sound bites run thus: Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachman, Haley Barbour, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin and, I think, Tim Pawlenty.
Did I get it right?
Homeless Man with Golden Voice Offered Job, Home
Earlier today we posted a video of what’s now known as the man with the golden voice, saying simply, get this guy back on the radio.
Via ESPN:
Left homeless after his life and career were ruined by drugs and alcohol, Williams has been offered a job by the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and is being pursued by NFL Films for possible work after he and his tale became an online curiosity.
“This has been totally, totally amazing,” Williams said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, his voice choking with emotion. “I’m just so thankful. God has blessed me so deeply. I’m getting a second chance. Amazing.”
Amazing, indeed.
Get Ted Williams back on the radio.
Via horaciogaray:
U.S. smartphone owners are increasingly turning to mobile to access breaking news over other media, including newspapers, TV and desktop web browsers, according to a recent study from mobile app developer Handmark - link
1… 2… 3… 4… The BBC’s Charlotte Green loses it and we want more.
Love. Love. Love it.
Public Media Experiments Show Promise, Need to Involve Public
After a slew of reports, conferences, and hearings, the calls for public media to step into the journalism breach have been met with action. Over the past year, there has been a wave of experimentation in local news projects in public media, a trend that is increasing rapidly, especially at radio stations. As Ken Doctor sums up in this Newsonomics post:
We’ve seen 12 topical sites prominently launched in major cities, under the rubric of Project Argo. We’ve seen National Public Radio building out a state-of-the-art internal wire (the NPR API), facilitating the sharing of national, global and local stories among public radio stations. We’ve seen the Corporation for Public Broadcasting fund various new initiatives, including the Local Journalism Centers, aimed at improving regional issues reporting. We’ve seen Boston’s WBUR, the Bay Area’s KQED, the Twin Cities’s MPRNews.org and L.A.’s KPCC all launch standalone news sites over the last year, moving beyond the programming brochure look that has long characterized public radio on the web.
These projects are just the start. They are matched by ambitious proposals to ramp up stations’ reporting capacity, such as Bill Kling’s push to add over 300 new reporters to local public radio newsrooms, and NPR’s new Impact of Government initiative, which will add reporters to cover state governments in all 50 states.
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