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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...
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Rick 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...
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Rick 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...
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Rick 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...
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Rick 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...
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Bill 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...
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Rick 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...
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Nfocus 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...
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Rick 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...
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Rick 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...
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IdeaFestival 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....
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Friday 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,...
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Who’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...
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Slow 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...
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Remembering 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...
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Graceship: 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...
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Power 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...
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C-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...
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JCPS 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...
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Press 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...
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