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Is 'O' on the way out of Chicago?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:03:31 -0600

With looming plans for her OWN (Oprah Wnfrey Network) cable channel to bow in the next few years, Chicago's media icon is caught between whether to re-up CBS' distribution of the "Oprah Winfrey Show' or to move the entire operation to Los Angeles to be filmed and distributed through OWN.

nytimes.com

Media Democracy Day Panels on November 7th

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:29:15 -0600

The price is right. The sponsors are numerous. The idea is important. The panelists will get a lively discussion going. Join them. If you go, please call in your impressions of the event to 312 436-1820 at ChicagoTalks.

chicagotalks.org

Sound bite of the day: Howard Stern talking about Feder

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:14:31 -0600

Howard talks about Robert Feder and the WGN Program Director on his show today. Hooray, we're on Stern!

blogs.vocalo.org

Who Belongs on the Local News 'Mt. Rushmore'?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:43:02 -0600

Robert Feder asks the question and profiles Bill Kurtis. Who do you think should be on the local news Mt. Rushmore?

blogs.vocalo.org

Media Democracy Day Sat. Nov 7 - Using new media and old - creating your own media

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:50:27 -0600

Media Democracy Day, Sat. Nov, 7, 1-4 pm Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn Ave, Chicago Chicago area media professionals and activists share ideas on how to create a responsible democratic media system. $10, $5.00 or what you can afford. www.chicagoprogmedia.org

pdaillinois.org

Tribune Company Ending Pretense Its Employees Own It

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:07:20 -0600

"How, for instance, can any 'owner' be fired without cause or due process? How is it that fired 'owners' lost all rights to future profits — such as they might be — upon termination...? Aren't the employees who remain actually in a more precarious financial position than those who left and already are receiving pension checks and have complete control of their retirement portfolios?"

chicagoreader.com

A rude 'Pig Virus' infects WGN Radio

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:36:50 -0600

Everything that’s gone wrong at WGN-AM (720) in the past year can be summed up in two words: “Pig Virus.” No, we’re not talking H1N1 here. “Pig Virus” is the nickname Howard Stern gave long ago to Kevin Metheny, the man in charge of programming at the Tribune Co.-owned news/talk station since January.

blogs.vocalo.org

Want Diversity? Start with Diversity.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:55:43 -0600

"Don't ask me to bring diversity to your organization, ask me to join your organization for my skills, my knowledge or because you just love me. Don't think that I'm the pepper to your bland mashed potatoes. I am the garlic to those potatoes - the first thing you put on the skillet after you start to boil the water.

vivalafeminista.com

What's happening to black folks in the media?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:33:24 -0600

Laura Washington points to this lack of diversity in her Chicago Sun-Times column about the new Chicago News Cooperative: "Every staff member they have named so far is white--and male."

chicagonow.com

Red ink spills over black-and-white at Chicago Tonight

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:13:02 -0600

The idea of a Chicago television news operation without a single African American reporter or anchor on staff seems like a throwback to some other era. But that’s the situation now at WTTW-Channel 11, the public television station owned by Window to the World Communications and partnered with the new Chicago News Cooperative.

blogs.vocalo.org