The Media Drop

SPORTSbyBROOKS has a story up about ESPN College Gameday guy Lee Corso’s appearance on a Dallas area radio program recently, only to have it end in a very strange fashion. During the show, one of the hosts, Dan McDowell, said something about Corso posing nude for a magazine, making a quip about Corso’s college […]

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City Pages‘ G.R. Anderson, Jr. gives Clear Channel Communications a thorough runthru in this article on Wednesday, from how the company showed up in Minneapolis just a few years ago and has grown into a huge part of the entertainment industry in the area.
“No single business has had a larger cultural impact on the Twin […]

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Last night, I had an opportunity to correspond via email with the author of the Radio Free Nepal blog. What I received was some more information about the situation going on in the country, especially regarding the media. Questions and answers below. [Note: any adjustments made in editing the responses are […]

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The Miami Herald’s Christina Hoag writes Tuesday about the format flip that went on in the area in the last few days, with Clear Channel moving its 94.9 WZTA to a Hispanic format. This was quickly followed by a switch yesterday on Cox’s Party 93.1 from dance to rock music.

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The Chicago Tribune announced on Tuesday that Jim Kirk would take on the role of associate managing editor of business news. Kirk has been working as business editor since October of 2004, and a staffer of the Tribune since 1997, when he joined as a marketing and advertising writer. [PRN]

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This morning, I came across a blog*spot site that appears to be a blog written by someone in Nepal who has “liveblogged” what has amounted to a bloodless coup in that country earlier this month. You can read it at freenepal.blogspot.com. There are a few posts up now, starting from February 1, which […]

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Jason Clarke, editor of Moorelies.com and fellow Media Bloggers Association member has launched a new blog this week, Network Landscape. It’s pretty slick, if I do say so myself, and I’m looking forward to Jason’s expansion from all things Michael Moore into “citizen’s media, emerging technologies, entertainment, and content,” as he describes it.
Plus, you […]

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Just catching this now as I read up on what I’ve missed today. FOX News Radio’s Tony Snow has come out to say that he has colon cancer. More here at the Tony Snow Show website.
Thanks, James, for pointing this out. Well wishes go out to Snow and his family from me […]

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The Journalists Network informs about the accidental death of Diana Seale, an editor for the English edition of Kathimerini, a paper from Athens, Greece. Seale, 31, was mountain climbing in a group when they were caught in an avalanche.

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram reader advocate David House offered some insight on Sunday into what goes on “behind the scenes” at a newspaper to get any and all information and newsworthy items into the paper on any given day. In this case, the example is about readers who complained about the newspaper’s coverage of the […]

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