Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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And this is what still remains exciting about podcasting: the format has prompted a reconsideration of what we can expect from radio.
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Tags: format, podcasting, podcasts, radio, Web. 2.0
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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This year posed a strongly economic undercurrent to the Oscar's traditional nostalgia.
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Republican and anti-choice ultrasound bills and laws have justifiably come under fire for being physically invasive, but what they say about women as audiences and as citizens is every bit as disturbing.
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Tags: active audiences, audiences, feminism, Republican Party, third person effect, ultrasounds
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Finding the feminism in media studies can sometimes mean finding feminism in ourselves and enacting our own agency to make change, no matter how small it may seem.
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Feminism is not just an approach one might take. It's kind of the point.
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I’m going to say this up front: I’m a music snob, and I hate the very idea of the Grammy Awards. If you’re looking for dispassionate analysis, stop reading now.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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The Screen Actors Guild Awards are a bit of an oddity among the standard awards shows. They don’t have the glamour of the Oscars–though perhaps they do have a higher concentration of movie stars–and following so closely after the Golden Globes, their revelry appears more in the realm of office party than gala event....
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Tags: film, Hollywood, industry, Martin Scorsese, Screen Actors Guild, television
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Broadcast over Jersey City’s listener-supported radio station WFMU, The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling is what happens when many of commercial radio’s most noxious elements—bizarre callers, comedy routines, running gags, and irascible hosts—transform and coalesce into a singularly entertaining program perfectly calibrated for cult attraction.
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Tags: Best Show, comedy, internet, radio, WFMU
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The first in our series on awards shows, Matthew Connolly recaps the Golden Globes and considers the duality of their popular function.
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Tags: Academy Awards, awards shows, Golden Globes
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Your #1 source for Lions Gate news returns with ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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On Radio is a new Antenna column dedicated to contemporary radio programming and other issues surrounding the medium in all its forms. Here, in the series' first entry, Andrew Bottomley offers a critical appreciation of the radio feature Radiolab.
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Tags: All Things Considered, documentary, Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, John Biewen, journalism, MacArthur Foundation, NPR, Public Radio Exchange, radio, Radiolab, Robert Krulwich, This American Life, WNYC
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