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A push-start for three innovative media ideas
In case you missed this from earlier in the week, the McCormick Foundation funded three proposals from new media women entrepreneurs at $10,000 each so they can launch within a year. Here are the three plans:: ChickRx – Harvard MBA student Stacey Borden and partner Meghan Muntean will lead a team of women in launching…
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Respite from the media dog days of summer
Just when the summer sultry heat convinces you the future of media is the bleakest of deserts along comes something or someone that says otherwise. There’s Michael Van Popel, who at 17 started the Twitter breaking news service Breaking News Online. Now a mere 20, he’s built a media franchise and is coming out in…
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Recapping the “open government” agenda in the Tennessee Legislature now that lawmakers are safely home
The two biggest surprises from the just-ended legislative session were the unprecedented high number of bills affecting open records and meetings, public notices, and an assortment of other First Amendment issues and the failure in the Senate to close gun carry permit files. The 30 bills represented three times the norm for a single year…