The BlogTalkRadio Blog

BlogTalkRadio and Pajamas Media Join Forces to Provide Interactive Broadcasting Platform for Citizen Journalists with “Pajamas Media Radio.”

BlogTalkRadio is pleased to announce a licensing and revenue sharing agreement with Pajamas Media, a citizen-publishing, journalist and blogger news aggregation site.

Pajamas Media is an online media company, provides coverage and thoughtful analysis and commentary of issues of the day through their network of over ninety bloggers in 47 countries around the world and through original stories, podcasts and videos.

The new agreement will unite citizen broadcasting and citizen journalism extending the reach of Pajama Media contributors with a new BlogTalkRadio channel called, “Pajamas Media Radio.” The new channel will provide Pajama Media contributors with the ability to host their own talk radio show, share their views and opinions and conduct live interactive discussions to complement their written commentary.

Roger L. Simon, CEO and co-founder of Pajamas Media said:

“BlogTalkRadio gives our correspondents, who are on the ground in 47 countries covering the news, a channel to collectively broadcast their views under one Pajamas Media Radio umbrella. We’re pleased to have entered this agreement. We look forward to extending these citizen-journalism networks as credible sources of information.”

Our own Alan Levy, CEO and co-founder of BlogTalkRadio commented:

“The BlogTalkRadio network is the perfect platform for Pajamas Media contributors to verbally express themselves. Pajama Media contributors now can host debates and panel discussions in a live, interactive public forum that cannot be duplicated in print.”

We’re pleased to tell you that since the company’s 2006 launch, thousands of hosts have broadcast more than 34,000 shows on this social radio network. That’s amazing. With Pajamas Media’s bloggers, the number of outstanding shows will continue to grow.

Katie is a war mother, a grandmother and a minister in the American Baptist Church. Katie and five others, including a nun, were recently jailed for peaceful anti-war protests.

White joins ePluribus Radio today at 11:30am ET to tell Adam Lambert and David Atkins her story of The Erie 6. On March 19, a group from the Erie Peace Initiative and nine members locked arms and knelt at the doors to the Erie courthouse. They were arrested after half an hour. They were fined $500, plus court costs. Six of them, The Erie 6, wouldn’t pay and went to jail.

Interestingly, two of White’s 10 children are in the armed services. An article on GoErie.com quotes White as saying:

“My debt to society is paid through active citizenship,” she said. “There are worse things, both in heaven and on Earth, than going to prison for that which I believe.”

Find out more about why they did it and what happens now. Join this discussion in the chat room and by calling in.

Mets’ 3B David Wright will join the MetsBlog Podcast on BlogTalkRadio today.

David Wright talks to Matthew Cerrone of MetsBlog.com at 11am ET on MetsBlog Podcast about the David Wright Foundation, including the 3rd Annual ‘Do the Wright Thing’ Gala in NYC on Nov. 15. They’ll also chat about being young and famous in New York and leading a veteran club.

Wright’s foundation website notes:

David is not one to leave his responsibilities on the field. He does all that he can to help the community and the fans…David took the initiative to create …a foundation that is capable of continuing to support important causes. The David Wright Foundation held its first event of December 16, 2005 at the New York Stock Exchange Member’s Club, bringing in over $100,000 for two Multiple Sclerosis (MS) centers.