Mountain Lake PBS Productions

Colin Powers reflects on PBS programming for the Adirondacks, Lake Champlain, & Quebec, public broadcasting, and the future of media distribution.

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Entries Tagged as 'hyperlocal journalism'

iPhone HD film-making has arrived!

June 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Filmmaking, Fun Stuff, Future of public media, High Definition, Journalism, Multi-media

Look out – here come’s mobile film-making! No excuses – the editing application is in the phone! via vimeo.com

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Reinventing reporting and “crowd-sourcing” your stories

May 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Future of public media, Journalism, Local stories, Multi-media, Public Affairs, Public Media

This chain of newspapers is boldly striking out into digital territory that no other legacy media has ventured in (switching to free online tools and more), but I’m eager to consider how our station can adopt this idea: Telling the Stories A cornerstone of the Ben Franklin Project is the inclusion of everyone in the [...]

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Coffee with your news? Beverage revenues the answer for pubmedia newsrooms?

May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Future of public media, Journalism, Multi-media, News, Public Affairs, Public Media

Hyperlocal ‘news cafes’ are taking the Czech news scene by storm By Teri Pecoskie While newspapers scramble to figure out how to turn a profit in a quickly evolving industry, a small group of Czech publications might just hold the solution: Hyperlocal news. A year after the successful launch of a hyperlocal journalism project in [...]

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Revolution PBS: Efficiency Idea 1

April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Digital Television, Educational Programming, Future of public media, PBS

This new (anonymous) voice in the ether is offering up some radical, and, it seems, well motivated ideas about how to change up the public television system. Certainly worth wrestling with or embracing depending on your point of view… Efficiency Idea 1 In our quest to identify ways that PBS can cut costs, we will [...]

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