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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
KQED’s Man in Sacramento John Myers is saying that California’s constitutional amendment movement is “on the ropes” these days:
“The political campaign organized to convene a constitutional convention in California is, in the words of a top campaign official, “pausing” its efforts to get the measure on the November ballot.“
It seems that these putative conventioneers would be in great shape if somebody just handed over a spare million or four:
“Campaign chief John Grubb tells KQED that they are ‘hoping there are some angels out there’… State campaign finance records show the group has raised less than $500,000 so far; one source said today the campaign probably needs an additional $4 million to get the measures qualified.”
This issue was the flavor of the month just a few short months ago, in’nt it?
Tune into the KQED FM 88.5 or 89.3 this afternoon at 5:00 or 5:30 PM for the post mortem.
Tags: 2010, ballot, california, Constitutional Convention, Cy Musiker, election, initiative, John Grubb, John Myers, kqed
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Elements of our Bay Area News Project, that grand alliance of old money and young blood, recently headed across the Bay Bridge to meet up with the kids from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
This meet-and-greet happened a couple of weeks back but the BANP is crowing about it today, so head over and check it out, why don’t you?
Look, it’s brand-new BANP EIC Jonathan Weber and CEO Lisa Frazier at North Gate Hall sharing a few brewskis with the J students:
TwitPic via jrue, aka Jeremy Rue, multimedia training instructor for the Knight Digital Media Center and a lecturer for the Carnegie-Knight program News21
Do you fret over* these students becoming “slaves” or something? You may be richer and older than they, but they’re smarter than you - try to keep that in mind when pondering such matters. These 20-somethings will do fine - they’ll manage to get by, with or without the BANP.
Bon courage, BANP et etudiants.
*Absence of pay-wall duly noted. Isn’t it ironic, dont’cha think?
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
The Bay Area News Project, that grand alliance of old money and young blood, will soon make its debut.
Savor two bits of news released just now:
1. “The Bay Area News Project appoints Lisa Frazier as C.E.O and Jonathan Weber as Editor-In-Chief“ (but maybe you already knew about that, of course), und;
2.“The Bay Area News Project to supply news content for Bay Area sections of The New York Times“
O.K. then. Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together?
[UPDATE: The SFWeekly's young Joe Eskenazi just grilled the principals of the BANP just now - his report.]
So the new CEO will be Lisa Frazier, the very same woman who was in charge of the hunt for a CEO? Yes, Lisa. Is the water warm enough? We’ll soon find out.
That’s today’s news. Expect good things…
The Bay Area News Project to Supply News Content for Bay Area Sections of the New York Times
The Bay Area News Project, a new non-profit media organization, and The New York Times announced today that the two organizations are moving forward with a content collaboration. Under the agreement, Bay Area News Project journalists will provide branded news to The New York Times for its San Francisco Bay Area editions on Friday and Sunday.
The New York Times’s Bay Area section was launched in October 2009 and currently features editorial coverage written by The Times’s San Francisco news bureau and other contributors.
“This agreement with the Bay Area News Project is another big step for The Times toward two goals: helping meet the demand for the highest quality local reporting in places around the country where it is getting harder to come by, and finding ways to collaborate with trusted providers to get that job done,” said Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times.
“Our aim is to roll out expanded local reports in several key markets around the country, working with local journalists and news organizations in a collaborative way,” said Scott Heekin-Canedy, president and general manager of The New York Times. The Times has a similar arrangement in Chicago with the nonprofit Chicago News Cooperative. “This approach is designed to enhance the print experience for readers and strengthen our subscriber retention,” Mr. Heekin-Canedy said.
In related news, The Bay Area News Project also announced its new C.E.O. Lisa Frazier and Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Weber. The News Project’s publicly-supported and stand-alone newsroom will consist of at least 15 journalists during the new media outlet’s first year. In addition to providing content to The New York Times, the News Project is developing a Web site and other platforms that will provide original reporting on a wide range of Bay Area civic and community issues.
“We believe that Jonathan Weber, a talented journalist with a world of rich experience, will build a team that can provide a superior local report for readers of The Times in the Bay Area,” Mr. Keller said. “And our agreement with the Bay Area News Project assures that his newsroom will be strictly independent, apolitical and uninfluenced by the generous donors who are making this effort possible.”
Mr. Weber, former co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Industry Standard and former reporter and editor for the LA Times, said: “We’re looking forward to working with one of the world’s leading editorial brands to deliver hard-hitting news and in-depth editorial coverage focused on the San Francisco Bay Area – one of the most intellectually curious, innovative and industrious areas of the country.”
“We are excited to start producing content about the Bay Area for the Bay Area, published in The New York Times,” said Bay Area News Project C.E.O. Lisa Frazier. “Our print collaboration with The Times assists our sustainability model, and extends the reach of our content in the Bay Area. I am appreciative of Tom Carley, Bill Keller and the rest of their teams for all of their support over the last few months as we got the News Project up and running. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.”
The Hellman Family Foundation has provided initial seed funding for the Bay Area News Project; other support has come from the Knight Foundation and community members interested in funding quality journalism for the Bay Area. Investment banking firm Greenhill & Co., law firm Jones Day, and philanthropic advisory firm Hirsch & Associates, LLC have advised Warren Hellman and his working group on the formation of the entity.
About the Bay Area News Project
The Bay Area News Project is a publicly supported news organization focused on providing high-quality, original coverage of Bay Area civic and community news. The locally produced, professional news organization plans to leverage broad collaborations and new digital technologies to provide Bay Area news that reflects the region’s dynamic social and cultural diversity. Coverage will include government and public policy, education, the arts and cultural affairs, the environment, and neighborhood news. The News Project is currently a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, a 501(c)(3) organization that enables individuals and groups, working together, to create and invest in projects that benefit the public.
For more information, please visit www.bayareanewsproject.org.
The other shoe drop after the jump.
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Like these guys.
It would take forever to make it up the stairs to the top of controversial landmark Sutro Tower, so a swaying elevator car is the preferred method.
Click to expand to get a closer look at a sunnier, more colorful San Francisco:
Take the tour.
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
The Bay Area News Project, that grand alliance of old money and young blood, is showing signs of life in 2010. Today’s news from Neil Henry, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley:
“The Bay Area News Project is alive and well and ready to start business. The first board meeting will be conducted next week. We have secured an outstanding CEO and an extraordinary editor in chief whose names will be announced later this month.”
[Huggy Bear Mode: On] Word on the street is that the CEO with the half-million-dollar(!)-per-year pay package will be Lisa Frazier, [formerly?] a partner at McKinsey & Company, you know, that consulting firm famous for giving bad advice to the consequently dead SwissAir.
[Huggy Bear Mode: Off] So let’s see here, the BANP’s initial endowment from belov’d billionaire F. Warren Hellman is just $5 million, right? So they’re going to spend 10% of that on one person’s salary for one year? Is this, in the parlance of the day, a sustainable journey?
Oh, what’s that, BANP? You all are going to get more millions from more billionaires soon?
“And once it gets up and running, the backers plan to appeal to other philanthropists to get it past phase two.”
O.K. fine.
(Let me tell you about phase two. Back in ‘44, Hitler ordered his Sixth Panzer Army to fight from Germany to Antwerp, despite the fact that it only had enough fuel to make it a third of the way. Once phase one was up and running, phase two was to simply capture heavily-guarded Allied fuel depots(!) along the way in order gas up to move on to phase three. The Battle of the Bulge didn’t exactly work out that way, needless to say.)
There’s no question Lisa the chemical engineer / MBA is a smart cookie, but the question is exactly what is she going to do for all that dough? Make deals and raise a ton money? All right, BANP, it certainly looks like you’re striving to be a big player. You all are swinging for the bleachers, huh?
In other news, Jonathan Weber will become Editor-in-Chief and KQED will not become a “founding partner” in this enterprise.
Bon Courage, BANP.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
This is it – years of competition betwixt the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the SF Weekly will culminate at a free-for-all tomorrow morning in the Thunderdome that is the recording studio of KQED-FM.
KQED Forum host Michael Krasney will play the role of Aunty Entity (seeing as how Tina Turner is unavailable). Expect the bout to begin at 9:00 AM, Friday, January 8th, 2010 on 88.5 FM and online.
It’s on - Friday, Friday, Friday!
Two Alt-Weeklies Enter, One Alt-Weekly Leaves
UPDATE: On It Goes…
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Let’s see here, the TasteTV Network is going to put on the “TASTY Awards Show” at the Sundance Kabuki in Japantown on Thursday, January 14th, 2010. It will be:
“…the most exciting and prestigious event ever to celebrate food and fashion programs on television, in film, and online.”
O.K. then. But why food and fashion together?
“The viewer appetite and response to food and style programs has surged over recent years, making them some of the highest watched video content. The TASTY AWARDS spotlight the year’s best achievements in food and fashion programs on television, in film, and on the web.”
All right, now I’m on the trolley. But who’s going to be the draw? Well it’ll be hosted by Zane Lamprey, who will introduce to the crowd:
Tyler Florence (Food Network), Joanne Weir (PBS), G. Garvin (TV One), Tanya Holland (Food Network), Leslie Sbrocco (PBS), Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV), Marcy Smothers (Radio), Novella Carpenter (Author), Anita Chu (Author), Dominique Crenn (Food Network – Next Iron Chef)), Brian Solis (New Media Guru), Marissa Churchill (Bravo, Top Chef)
OMG, it’s Tyler!
He’ll be there. And who could get awards whether they show up or not? Well, for starters, how about toothy Giada De Laurentiis?
You can’t beat that. And there’ll be some VIP after-party at the New People Building down the street. Are you all a Twitter yet? (NB: They”ll have lots o’ chocolate.)
The deets, after the jump.
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Not that you’d really be able to tell, though. Sutro Tower Inc. has just finished a project that had some of the digital TV broadcast antennas (not “antennae” – that plural term is only used for bugs in our silly English language) gaining a higher altitude.
Not much howver, maybe a seven-percent increase, max. Does that make a big difference? No, not for most people, but at least STI is trying.
Here’s the antenna of KPIX-TV (OMG, that’s the home of Eye on Blogs – big ups, Brittney Gilbert!) a way up top, like 1700 feet above sea level. Now Channel 5 is as high as possible:
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The Future is Now, and what’s labeled “CURRENT” is history:
From this:
To this:
Well, they were still wrapping the KPIX, KRON, KTVU antenna assembly, but you get the idea.
So it looks like we’re all set with the Great Digital TV Conversion of 2009. As long as Sutro Tower doesn’t get hit by a shooting star….
…we’ll be all right.
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
San Francisco’s famous Sutro Tower (owned by Sutro Tower, Inc., the buyer-offer and $hutter-upperof San Francisco’s mid-town NIMBYs) has a new look for Fall.
Here’s Before (a way back in August 2009)…
…und jetzt After, the way it looks these days (when being buzzed by a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 NG heading to El Lay, camera right, see it?)
Click to expand
Très chic! Non?
Now, she’s all set for the next meteor shower:
Courage.
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009
F. Warren Hellman’s Bay Area News Project announcement has been raising a few hackles the past few days. The San Francisco Chronicle frets that a possible KQEDNYTimesUC BerkeleyHellman joint could “threaten the remaining local news industry” and Robert Gammon at the East Bay Express is saying the project “threatens bay area journalism.” Uh oh.
Our new media overlord, Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman:
Be sure to read the insane Gammon bit to see what he thinks constitutes ”slave labor.” You see, the UC Berkeley students won’t get paid, so that amounts to slave labor – they’ll be just like the workers of Mittelwerk who were forced to manufacture missiles underground during World War II. Or something like that.
Who will free the slave laborers of UC Berkeley’s current MissionLoc@l and the future Bay Area News Project? Is it even necessary to save them?
We should have more reporters! More media! More, I say! Hang those who talk of less!
Check it all out at the Twitter, the Facebook and KQED Forum:
Host: Dave Iverson
Guests:
- Carl Hall, local representative of the California Media Workers Guild, the union representing the San Francisco Chronicle’s newsroom and commercial departments
- Jeff Clarke, president and CEO of KQED/Northern California Public Broadcasting
- Neil Henry, professor and dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and author books including “American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media”
- Noelle Leca, chair of the board of directors of KQED/Northern California Public Broadcasting
- Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and co-author of “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”
Good luck BANP!
Cheer up newsie, help is on the way.
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