IS IT LIVE OR IS IT MEMOREX?
From the desk of James Reel on Friday, October 30th 2009 at 8:12
The main reason I’ve hardly been blogging during the past few months is that I’m just too busy with other duties around here. At the beginning of summer, Arizona Public Media—suffering from the same budget crunch as the rest of the University of Arizona—had to lay off a few employees, including KUAT-FM’s afternoon announcer and its music director. Since the goal was to save money, those people’s work had to be taken on by employees who were already salaried, meaning, primarily, Bill Luckhardt and me ...
Read MoreINTERVIEW WITH THE VIOL MASTER
From the desk of James Reel on Monday, October 26th 2009 at 7:19
In case you missed my announcement in August, I’ve withdrawn from the Tucson Weekly. As I wrote in that column, “I’ve been contributing to the Weekly for 10 years, during much of which I’ve reviewed one to three plays in almost every issue, and after all this time, I want my weekends back.” It turns out that plenty of other diversions have filled my anticipated weekend vacuum, so I have yet to enjoy all the cocoon time I’d anticipated. Besides which, I’m still writing for a couple of magazines ...
Read MoreFTC BACKPEDALS
From the desk of James Reel on Tuesday, October 20th 2009 at 8:37
In other news, the Federal Trade Commission is now telling book bloggers (and presumably CD reviewers) not to worry about its new rules on freebies and disclosure. It would be nice if the agency could get its story straight.
Read MoreSECRETS FROM MEMBERSHIP CENTRAL
From the desk of James Reel on Tuesday, October 20th 2009 at 8:36
As you surely know by now, we’ve thrown ourselves into our autumn membership campaign. Coincidentally, last week Slate repeated an article in which June Thomas, after listening to campaigns on her New York City station, explained public radio's 10 most effective fundraising strategies. Read the article, listen to what we do, compare and contrast. And don’t forget to pledge.
Read MoreBEYOND PREACHING TO THE CHOIR
From the desk of James Reel on Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 9:13
We had a staff meeting yesterday at which senior staffers outlined Arizona Public Media’s growing use of social networking media. It’s great that we’re going to make a bigger push with Twitter and blogging and Facebook and such, but I’m not sure that some of us completely understand its potential ...
Read MoreI HAVE RETURNED AGAIN
From the desk of James Reel on Thursday, October 8th 2009 at 8:03
A long, long time ago I announced that I’d soon be resuming blogging. Obviously, I was being too optimistic ...
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