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Friday / IU / photo / podcast — Comments Off on Welcome to your weekend
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Feb 18

Welcome to your weekend

I went into the studio first thing this morning and recorded this.

And I walked out of the audio booth and down the hall some 75 feet, let’s say and immediately into the television studio, where I produced an oral history. And that somehow ran until about lunch.

So I had a quick bowl of noodles at a place called Noodles, with The Yankee, which has the benefit of being right across the street and, usually, pretty good lunch fare. And they are quick, which is good.

After lunch it was right back into the studio where I worked with some students from the newspaper who are wanting to do movie reviews. This reporter is creating some no-doubt award-winning content and I am watching her in the viewfinder and trying not to giggle at her movie review:

She did two takes and decided she had what she wanted for this trial run episode. And after that I was down to the little this and that parts of the day, the tidying up the desk for the weekend, part of the day, and the answering all of the many emails part of the day.

On Fridays you can get all of that into one part of your day, if you are suitably motivated.

And then it was home, home to sit and read and pet the cat and enjoy doing nothing for a little while. The problem is, you could get used to that, so I ended up straightening up my office a tiny bit and doing some laundry and thinking up new projects and plotting out the weekend and, now, here we are. I’m sort of caught up on things, for a change. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do about that. Any thoughts?

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IU / journalism / podcast / Thursday / video — Comments Off on All about shows
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Feb 18

All about shows

There are a lot of things I like about my little show. I hope there are things other people like too, but it is good that I like some things about it since I’m, you know, doing it. One of the things is that I can get students involved. Today’s guest is my third student in the last few weeks, which is great.

The other thing I like is that these shows, because I leave the topics up to the guests, vary widely. So here’s Dominick Jean, who is the news editor of the campus paper, and he’s talking about gerrymandering.

Another thing that I like is that when sorta semi-apologized for this topic I got to tell him he should never apologize for his interests. And then he gave me what was, I thought, a really nice conversation. So check that out.

Some other things students have done this week:

They did the sports show tonight, and the other two on Tuesday. They’re all works in progress, and they’re all coming along at varying speeds. There was to be a third show on Tuesday, but it was overcome by underwhelming events. These things will happen. Tomorrow another group of IUSTV students is in rehearsal for a new late night show. And on Sunday the station is producing a concert.

So let’s count: four studio shows a week (one isn’t included above because it is for air on Sunday), a twice-monthly campus government show, a brand new late night show, a new concert series in conjunction with the campus radio station. And that doesn’t include covering something like a dozen sports they’re covering on campus and around the conference. Student media, man, they are getting some stuff done.

I may just turn in that paragraph at the end of the year.

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Friday / IU / podcast / Twitter — Comments Off on That day which starts the thing toward which everyone is working
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Jan 18

That day which starts the thing toward which everyone is working

Sometimes you get to know people and you come to realize that they’re going to do just fine and the world is liable to turn out just fine when they are one day running the show. And I typically meet people preparing to go into some media field or another. And I spend a little more time around the news people, of course. And they can be pretty squared away folks, which is always nice. And today I got to interview one of those people.

Carley Lanich aspires to be an investigative reporter. This semester she’s the editor-in-chief of her campus newspaper. And today we talked about some of the coverage being done by her peers at Michigan State. It’s a pretty smart conversation:

And if you’ll excuse me:

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IU / photo / podcast / Wednesday — Comments Off on A national news reporter joins our little program
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Jan 18

A national news reporter joins our little program

Sometimes I have to give a tour of our building and so I talk about the journalism and the sports media and the research area and all of our cool classroom technology and so on. And then sometimes there’s a great flier up. Like this one which is up this week, that would let me tell someone more about the video game programs:

Come to college! Play games!

I wonder how hard a sell that on parents. But once they get here, they have a really great setup, and some incredibly talented peers. Someone is down in the game lab as I’m writing this and they’re making some impossibly cool game. It’s another one of those worlds that most of us don’t understand. Then they’ll launch the beginning of a career or create another gaming success and all of us will think “Well why didn’t I come up with that?” while we download it or go buy it or whatever you do your video game purchases these days.

They should come up with a cool little easter egg to drop in the background shots, so we all know when we run across an IU developer.

NBC correspondent Chris Pollone joined the podcast today. He’s a good get, and this is a pretty great story he’s talking about. A reporter found, perhaps, what is thought to be the last ship to deliver slaves into the United States.

Chris will be back on the show next week, too. And tomorrow, we may really hit the big time. And I have now shifted all of the latest episodes to Podbean for hosting purposes. It just seemed a good time to up the game a little bit. Now I just need to get the thing syndicated to streaming sites.

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IU / photo / podcast / Tuesday — Comments Off on We are one famous house
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Jan 18

We are one famous house

The Yankee and I recorded an episode of my show today. We played it all cool, because it seemed the best approach considering the subject matter. Anyway, the ultimate goal has been reached. We are famous on the Internet:

That’s what we tell Allie, The Black Cat, when we take her picture. She is famous on the Internet:

Of course she’s more famous than both of us put together. Cats and the Internet, after all.

Why, it is entirely possible that the entire agenda of domesticated catdom has been aiming to this moment. Cats knew they should be famous and so they have spent generations buttering us up for the inevitable day that we would create something they could use.

And also, head scratches.

But it begs an important question. They have what they want, now what?

We had a speaker in the building tonight. I spent the night going from the studio to the commons listening to television shows our news crew were producing and Jamie Kalven, who has won a Polk and a Ridenhour Courage award.

And here’s the reason, you should always take the time to listen to people who are passionate about their subject matter. Kalven has that, in spades, for his journalism and what it means to our communities. And so he talked about the importance of what journalism students should set out to do. Truth, authority, power, the man, all of that remains.

“The danger,” he was saying as I took this picture near the end of his visit, “is that we make concessions of our own freedom.”

This is the story Jamie Kalven was talking about.

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