Rick Redding: Kentucky’s new dropout law will be costly, ineffective
Starting in 2017, 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds will be violating the law if they don’t show up at school. If you’re a fan of education and of a smarter populace in general, you probably think that the...
View ArticleRick Redding: Local media defend ‘Breaking News’ as WDRB bans the term
WRDB-TV’s Bill Lamb is getting a lot of mileage from a promotion the station started in June. Basically, Lamb is marketing the fact that it’s not marketing its product like everybody else. No hype, no...
View ArticleRick Redding: Mandy Connell moves on
After three years, Mandy Connell is leaving her job as the morning talk show host at WHAS Radio to work early mornings (5 a.m. to 9 a.m.) at KHOW Radio in Denver. Connell joins a talk radio station...
View ArticleRick Redding: More top Courier-Journal talent out the door
I’ve written plenty of stories about the decline of the local daily newspaper. This one illustrates how more talent is walking out the door at Sixth and Broadway, and how a Gannett strategy is failing...
View ArticleRick Redding: Brendan McCarthy sees public radio’s new investigative...
It didn’t take long for Brendan McCarthy’s resume to rise to the top during Louisville Public Media’s national search for a director of its new Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. McCarthy has...
View ArticleBill Lamb: WDRB will be ‘dominant digital address in the market’ as paper...
It is one thing to proclaim that you’re going to be “the dominant digital address” in the market, but it’s quite another to put money and resources behind such an ambitious goal. But that’s exactly...
View ArticleRick Redding: 2013 will be remembered as year newspapers faded in Louisville
(Editor’s note: Terry Boyd also contributed to this post.) News consumers, you are driving a world of changes in the way we stay informed. We can argue all day about whether these changes are good for...
View ArticleNfocus facing financial pressure, too, but hires social scene diva Angie...
At NFocus Louisville, the struggles of being a print publication in an Internet-based world are constant. Like LEO Weekly, its sister publication under the umbrella of Nashville-based SouthComm, NFocus...
View ArticleRick Redding: What’s next as Adam Lefkoe’s career goes viral?
There’s not much glamour in doing a local Sunday night sportscast. WHAS-TV’s Adam Lefkoe, who has this task every week, realizes as much. But at nearly every station in the United States, guys like...
View ArticleRick Redding: The CJ strikes back, hires WSJ digital trailblazer Neil Budde
When we last left this media soap opera, everyone was jumping ship at Sixth and Broadway. They were leaving the place where, for most of my lifetime, making it in journalism meant you got hired at the...
View ArticleIdeaFestival preview: Chris Bliss juggles humor and communication – and it’s...
There may be plenty of ways to get people thinking in new ways, but Chris Bliss prefers doing it with humor. “Humor disarms people’s defenses, and helps people accept new ideas,” he told me in a Sept....
View ArticleFriday at IdeaFestival #IF13: Former BF CMO Kris Sirchio leading...
(Editor’s note: “The Purpose-Driven Brand” presentation is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Fri., Sept. 27 at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, part of IdeaFestival.) In today’s business climate,...
View ArticleWho’s got Klout? A social-media measuring stick for local reporters
Today’s member of the media has a whole different set of priorities and duties. And keeping score is a lot more complicated. Remember the days when all print reporters had to do was knock out a few...
View ArticleSlow journalism: Louisville Public Media, WDRB in no rush to dominate local...
My immediate reaction after 90 minutes of listening to chiefs of news operations at WDRB and Louisville Public Media is this — that’s nice work if you can get it. The local Society of Professional...
View ArticleRemembering Hugh Haynie: Nostalgic exhibit showcases cartoons
No one who grew up in in this town during the last decades of the 20th century is unaware of Hugh Haynie, whose 10,000 editorial cartoons printed in the Courier-Journal for nearly four decades both...
View ArticleGraceship: Emily Gimmel’s got a brand new bag
Emily Gimmel says she hasn’t really changed careers, even though her long workdays now consist of fretting over product shipments from China and hanging out at her Butchertown Market office with...
View ArticlePower of We: International ‘We Day’ movement inspires Louisville kids to...
Craig Kielburger was just 12 years old when he recruited a dozen classmates in Ontario, Canada, to see if they could help kids on the other side of the globe. That was in 1995, and now Kielburger...
View ArticleC-J executive editor Neil Budde talks digital, expanding local news,...
Neil Budde has gotten comfortable in his fourth-floor office at The Courier-Journal. After nearly three months, Budde says he’s gotten re-acquainted with his old colleagues (he worked at the C-J from...
View ArticleJCPS officials investigating the posting of inappropriate photos of students...
Jefferson County Public Schools officials are investigating an incident that could involve multiple students and schools. An unknown number of female JCPS high school students were victimized when...
View ArticlePress release journalism: Mediocre media coverage of downtown violence
Terry Meiners is not a journalist. His afternoon radio show on WHAS 84-AM consists of skits with “the Beasman” about UK basketball and interviews with politicians, filling space between news and...
View ArticleWHAS-11′s Joe Arnold talks local politics on new Saturday morning show
Joe Arnold represents a vanishing breed in TV news — a reporter covering politics, almost exclusively. Back in the day, every station had a political reporter who followed the ins and outs of local and...
View ArticleNews anchor Claudia Coffey not talking about sudden exit from WHAS-TV
On March 27, she nabbed an interview with a victim of the Waterfront Park violence and anchored WHAS-TV’s 4 p.m. newscast. And then she was gone. Claudia Coffey isn’t talking about why she’s no longer...
View ArticleAaron Yarmuth talks about plans to lead LEO in a new direction, announces...
Longtime LEO Weekly readers fondly remember those John Yarmuth Father’s Day columns about his relationship with his son, Aaron. Now Aaron Yarmuth is all grown up, and he’s bought the paper his father...
View ArticleMindless TV or public service?: ‘Deadbeat’ takes viewers inside local child...
The launch of a new local television program may strike you as yet another attempt to appeal to the worst of America’s lurid curiosity about people exhibiting bad behavior in public. Alternatively, it...
View ArticleLocal podcast, ‘The Rusty Satellite Show,’ talks to 100 of Louisville’s most...
When I started a podcast last June, I thought it would be fun to interview some locals who had interesting stories to tell. I called it The Rusty Satellite Show, insisted that my theme music was Paul...
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