Knoxnews’ Talid Magdy recorded one of my favorite musicians, Tim O’ Brien, at a recent WDVX Blue Plate show. O’Brien has a new CD out, Chicken and Egg. This video is of him doing “Suzanna,” which is on the CD....

I’ll be on George Korda’s “State Your Case” radio show form 1-3 (eastern) today. The show is on Newstalk 98.7 FM and is streamed on the web. From, 1-2, I’ll be talking about near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news....

With nearly all news organizations struggling to keep up with the up-to-the-minute news cycle and to remain profitable in the process, Americans’ low trust in newspapers and television news presents a critical barrier to success. The Pew report asserts that...

Linda Nguyen, who graduates from the University of Tennessee at the end of the fall semester, and April Alexander, who will graduate from Hampton University in the spring, were a great pair of interns with our online editorial group this...

Below are a few links I pulled together for a pizza lunch (and I wonder why so many accepted the calendar invite) at the News Sentinel today on “Brand Me” for journalists. Personal branding and the use of Social Media...

Something has gone amok with the PubliTweet widget and it has been removed.

Long-time Knoxville radio news broadcaster Dave Foulk has built up 4,229 friends on his Facebook page. Maybe Foulk personally knows over 4,000 people and counts them as friends; I kind of doubt it. They were there for another reason. They...

Congrats to the Knight-Batten Innovation Award winners! All 30 ideas look exceptional.