This week Matthew Lasar, writer for ArsTechnica, returns. He’s in Washington DC right now, so he updates us on some hot communications topics in Congress. Then we reflect on 60 years of the first community radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA, and discuss the difficulty of building a democratic radio network.
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This week Matthew Lasar, writer for ArsTechnica, returns. He’s in Washington DC right now, so he updates us on some hot communications topics in Congress. Then we reflect on 60 years of the first community radio station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA, and discuss the difficulty of building a democratic radio network.
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Time Warner Cable threatens to “test” absurdly low bandwidth caps in five more cities, then backs down when the public lets them have it. Also, Chicago’s Streetwise newspaper is having financial trouble.
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Chicago recently earned the dubious distinction of having the parent companies both major newspapers and the largest alternative weekly declare bankruptcy. And Chicago is not alone in having troubles with its newspapers. It’s getting so bad that even ardent anti-consolidation acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps is showing signs of softening on cross-ownership. We explore this issue, and the FCC’s new National Broadband Plan.
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Tags: bankruptcy, broadband, chicago, Conrad Black, consolidation, creative loafing, cross-ownership, fcc, Hollinger, journalism, michael copps, national broadban plan, newspapers, ownership, reader, sun-times, tribune
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April 11, 2009 6:43 am | 
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Chicago recently earned the dubious distinction of having the parent companies both major newspapers and the largest alternative weekly declare bankruptcy. And Chicago is not alone in having troubles with its newspapers. It’s getting so bad that even ardent anti-consolidation acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps is showing signs of softening on cross-ownership. We explore this issue, and the FCC’s new National Broadband Plan.
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Tags: bankruptcy, broadband, chicago, Conrad Black, consolidation, creative loafing, cross-ownership, fcc, Hollinger, journalism, michael copps, national broadban plan, newspapers, ownership, reader, sun-times, tribune
Download, Listen Now, Podcast | Paul | 6:43 am | Comments (1)
Geoff Dougherty is the founding editor of ChiTownDailyNews, a locally-focused news website employing professional journalists working with over 100 volunteer reporters to cover Chicago news not reported in the major mainstream news outlets. On this edition of the radioshow Geoff tells us about the site and the reasons why it pursues a this model.
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Tags: chicago, ChiTownDailyNews, Geoff Dougherty, journalism, local, localism, News, newspaper
Download, Listen Now, Podcast | Paul | April 5, 2009 8:10 pm | Comments (0)
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