On this page you will find links to articles on stations and people who are out there beyond St Louis. There are a number of commons themes here. The station culture and the related relation ships inside the station and hence with listeners/viewers is the paramount issue. While technology is important. It is the cultural issues that drive its effective use or not.
- Torey Malatia of WBEZ, Chicago Illinois, in 2006 at the time of New Realities and later in 2008 with 2 more years of experience talking about Vocalo. In 2006 Torey reflects on the core idea of truly serving the community. In 2008, he shoes us how Vocalo can be a living example of the principles of the Innovators’s Dilemma in action – where the new has been separated from the old so that it can offer the opposing model and both the old and new do fine.
- Kit Jensen of Ideastream, Cleveland Ohio, at the time of New Realities and later in 2008 talking abut how it is working out now. The continuing story of how you can integrate all aspects of media into one organization and then use this to attract the community in
- Dan DeVany at WETA, Washington DC, talking in 2008 about how WETA made the transition to all classical and what he learned about relationships along the way – shows another view of Clasical Music as a “format” – where the music becomes a haven and a refuge from the hurly burly of modern life and how the station has to relfect the love that the listerners have for the music back – shows the economics of getting this alignment right
- Jack Galmiche at KETC St Louis MO, in a 4 part series on how KETC has changing its relationship with the people in St Louis and what this is doing to its place in the city.
- Susan Meyer of WOSU, Columbus Ohio, on her views of how relationships have to work and how WOSU is using the local bloggers to help. Wikinomics in action. Part 1 and Part 2 plus the context on attraction here ( A conversation with Luis Suarez of IBM about social attraction on the web)
- Deanna McKey at KPBS, San Diego CA, on how KPBS followed the fire – part 1 the Tech and part 2 the Culture.
- Michael Skoler of Minnesota Public Radio talks here about how the idea of Public Insight Journalism is working.
- Andy Carvin, Todd Mundt and Rob at KCUR talking about pub media
Here is the Google/KPBS video of their work on the map for the fire
