Two of the Grey Lady’s greatest voices graced BlogTalkRadio yesterday; one with a titter-worthy Twitter tale, the other enraged by enslavement of the fair sex in South Asia.
Interviewed on Zane Safrit, New York Times personal-technology columnist David Pogue recalled his ironic road from social-media critic to social-media convert.
“Interestingly, I didn’t start on Twitter. [...]

Here’s a newsflash you don’t stumble across much these days: Old-school media isn’t going the way of hoop skirts, gas lamps and horse-drawn carriages anytime soon.
In fact, it’s poised to thrive in our ever-engulfing digital age.
So say media gurus from both sides of the equation who spoke today in Manhattan at “Don’t Write Them Off: [...]

Unabashed John F. Kennedy fan though she is, Helen Thomas is less than thrilled with the current incarnation of Camelot.
Interviewed on the Judy Joy Jones Show, the Godmother of White House correspondents - who has covered every Oval Office occupant since JFK - doesn’t hesitate to opine on America’s commanders-in-chief.
When host Judy Joy Jones [...]

The Los Angeles Press Club has named BlogTalkRadio’s own Ted Johnson Blogger of the Year.
But we can’t say it came as a surpise to us; we’ve been a fan of the Varierty managing editor’s incisive writing ever since he joined the network last year.
Ted was honrored for his Wilshire & Washington blog, which “highlights the [...]

Jon Parrett, host of Hip Talk Radio was right: BlogTalkRadio is addictive.
And NBC News correspondent “PC Mike” Wendland seems to agree.
On this week’s edition of his package for NBC television affiliates nationwide, Mike reviews BlogTalkRadio, giving it two thumbs up.
“I’m hooked,” the veteran tech reporter says.
“Built-in audience-building tools to Twitter and Facebook and social-media sites [...]

Sadly, not a week goes by these days without news of some vener- able newspaper filing for bankruptcy, slashing editorial staff, moving exclusively to cyberspace or dying outright.
From the Boston Globe to the Chicago Tribune to the Seattle Post Intelligencer to the Rocky Mountain News to the Christian Science Monitor it seems the entire industry [...]

In October 2008, WNET.ORG’s Worldfocus traveled to eastern Congo as fighting in the decade-long civil war there - which has been called the deadliest conflict since World War II - intensified.
The crew was comprised of correspondent Michael J. Kavanagh and cameraman and producer Taylor Krauss.
Two months later, Worldfocus anchor Martin Savidge would take to [...]

Democratic though it may be, social media can still breed petty jealousies.
Case in point: John Roberts, who gives fellow CNN news- man Rick Sanchez a good ribbing this week.
Interviewed on Morning Media Menu, John and his American Morning co-anchor Kiran Chetry discuss their show’s newly-launched Facebook and Twitter applications with host Steve Krakauer.
“How many people [...]

If you weren’t already convinced that online radio – in addition to being the wave of the future – is a force to be reckoned with, take a gander at these quotes from Rush Limbaugh’s February 20 terrestrial radio show:
“There’s a blog out there called mediabistro.com, TVNewser and so forth. And the TV people [...]

The former cartoonist for the Village Voice, Jules Feiffer talks with Mr. Media Bob Andelman this morning about his soon to be released hardcover book “Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips (1956-1966).”
The book will be released on June 9 by Fantagraphics Books, and Jules is excited to tell his fans what’s in store on BlogTalkRadio.
Editor [...]