In the spirit of news eminences such as Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, KQED has been your television and radio source for accurate, factual, local, national, and world news for more than 55 years. However, we are now finding that newsrooms are shrinking and meaningful content is vanishing, replaced with sound bites, often "… full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." So today we are very proud to announce a new, not-for-profit collaborative news initiative that will focus on local topics that are increasingly underserved. San Francisco business leader Warren Hellman spearheads this brave new venture; joining KQED is the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, as well as our print distribution partner, The New York Times.
The News Project plans to debut in early 2010. As one of the most sophisticated markets in the world, the Bay Area deserves a robust multi-platform news service. The new service is intended to feature original content produced by the professional journalists of the Bay Area News Project, as well as the journalists of the KQED Radio newsroom. It will be distributed online, mobile, and through other media platforms, so no matter how you choose to get your news, we’ll be your go-to source. Read more, then tell us what you think. We welcome your thoughts and feedback.
as i do every morning i loaded in my npr player to get the day started right. i was pleasantly surprised with my hometown station branding. i do send a lot of npr links because i heart them so. i assume they grabbed my local station from that. sorry wnyc, i still donate to the q.
feat of the day: getting published on kqed. snail mail pal kristin invited me to work on a mixtape with her a while back. i think it might have been mentioned back when i worked there. we bonded over our love of scandies. a possible future post we dreamed about. flash forward a year later, and i'm hit up for a mix on handclaps. we drafted it out via email and finalized in person (kinda sorta) when i was home last month. please make comments on mixtape. it makes kristin and me happy. that's excitement on both coasts to create one HUGE imaginary handclap.
best winter activity: ice skating. it's holiday time and that means skating for shar. TONY recently came out with a list of rinks in nyc. i've only hit one about 5 times and that would be the free one at bryant park. a girl's got skates and it's cheap. i've been dying to hit the wollman rinks in central and prospect parks since last winter. also, the new south street seaport sounds good too. i have to sharpen my skates, but who's down for some icy goodness?
reason to be inspired: kristi yamaguchi. she's from the bay and who doesn't love a good wholesome figure skater. no tonya harding or oksana baiul nonsense, just pure figure skating at its bestest. she's not bad on the dance floor either. anyhoot, here she is interviewed by my pal yoon for a kqed extra special.
Dear Sharock,
