Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Newspaper on radio on the Web I'm just finding my way around the local radio dial and the local newspapers... and tonight one led me to the other... Here's a story worth saving for next week's new crop of journalism students... WVTF public radio's Evening Edition already has an online recording of tonight's 25-minute episode, including interviews with a local newspaper editor and a national news-industry watcher about staff reductions, online publishing, and the future of the newspaper business in general... Here it is: WVTF's Dutchie Mirolli speaks with Joe Strupp, with the industry publication "Editor & Publisher." Also, she talks with Roanoke Times editor Carole Tarrant. Listen. In the interview, Tarrant notes that advertisers -- as well as newspapers -- are experimenting with new media, adding to the industry's financial uncertainties. She said the Times has been in the top five of all newspapers in the country in paid circulation for its population area, and has been above national averages in "pass-along" readership. (It's new media experiments have included a daily TimesCast for the past couple of years. Here's the cool December 2005 debut.) Back to the radio interview... Tarrant's message for journalism students was that you can "still build a vibrant career" in the field... so I encourage my students click on that "Listen" button to hear some of the details instead of my paraphrasing them here. Meanwhile, here's the Times own July story about the staff reduction early-retirement "buy out" mentioned in the interviews... and here's Editor & Publisher for coverage of related stories elsewhere, the Times case in particular... plus an opinion column with some questions that, unfortunately, didn't come up in the radio interview. 9:16:16 PM    comment []

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