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VIDEO: Wally Bowen of the Mountain Area Info Network

After a career in newspaper journalism and college public relations, Wally Bowen in the 1980s became an early pioneer in the field of media-literacy education. In the 1990s, he founded what has become Mountain Area Information Network, in Asheville, N.C., a non-profit online news service, low-power FM station and Internet Service Provider. In this one-hour interview with the Media Giraffe Project's Bill Densmore, Bowen explains the unique operation and why he's motivated to continue with it.

AUDIO: Wally Bowen of Mountain Area Information Network

It's hard for Wally Bowen to walk along the streets of downtown Asheville, N.C., without getting stopped by a listener, viewer, reader or political fellow traveler who has been touched by -- or volunteers for -- his Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN).

In the 1980s, Bowen left a job as a PR person for the University of North Carolina at Asheville and started a media-literacy advocacy group. In the 1990s he started one of the first-ever local online news services in MAIN. And now his not-profit operates a low-power FM station.

On April 2, 2008, Bowen talked with the Media Giraffe Project about his odyssey as a progressive media activist.  You can listen to streaming audio (60 minutes) by clicking on the carat on the bar below:

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VIDEO: Star Tribune editor describes "experience paper"

On Sept. 15, 2005, the Media Giraffe Project's Bill Densmore interviewed then-associate editor Nancy Barnes at the Minneapolis Star Tribune about the paper's involvement in a project lead by researchers at Northwestern University. The "Experience Paper" project sought to re-engineer the format and content of dalies to appeal to broader -- and particularly youth and ethnic -- reader groups. By 2007, Barnes had become the paper's editor. (TIME: 11 minutes)

AUDIO: Dave Mastio of BlogNetNews.com at Knight L.A. seminar

Dave Mastio's BlogNetNews.com helps aggregate local news blog feeds for regions throughout the United States for presentation on news and other websites. In this excerpt, Masio talks about his motivation for starting BlogNetNews.

Mastio was among panelists at a four-day seminar: "Best Practices: Editorial and Commentary in Cyberspace," presented by the Knight Digital Media Center of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in partnership with the National Conference of Editorial Writers. Approximately 30 editorial writers attended. Click on the carat on the bar below to launch streaming video, or DOWNLOAD AN MP3 PODCAST. Duration:3 minutes, 46 seconds / File Size:904.49 KB

AUDIO: NewWest.net's Courtney Lowery at Knight event in L.A.

Courtney Lowery, editor-in-chief of NewWest.net, a Missoula, Mont.-based regional and local online news resource for the American Rockies, describes how she and co-founder Jonathan Weber have reached profitability doing quality jouranalism.

Lowery was among panelists at a four-day seminar: "Best Practices: Editorial and Commentary in Cyberspace," presented by the Knight Digital Media Center of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in
partnership with the National Conference of Editorial Writers. Approximately 30 editorial writers attended.

AUDIO: GulfCoastNews.com founder Keith Burton

GulfCoastNews.com founder Keith Burton describes the Biloxi, Miss., website's emergence as an award-winning resource for post-Katrina victims and rebuilding an explains how he sustains the operation during a panel discussion in Los Angeles on March 2, 2008.

Burton was among panelists at a four-day seminar: "Best Practices: Editorial and Commentary in Cyberspace," presented by the Knight Digital Media Center of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in partnership with the National Conference of Editorial Writers. Approximately 30 editorial writers attended.

AUDIO: News-X Roadmaps from experts

This is audio of the panel, "News X Roadmaps," at the Georgia Tech Symposium on Computation and Journalism, Feb. 23, 2008. Panelists were Neil Budde, former editor in chief at Yahoo! News; Wally Dean, online/broadcast diretor of the Committee of Concerned Journalists; Jacob Kaplan-Moss of the Lawrence Journal-World; and Ramesh Jain, computer-science professor at the University of California, Irvine.

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(Duration: 1 hour, 54 minutes, 58 seconds File Size: 27.59 MB)

AUDIO: News-X Roadmaps from experts

This is audio of the panel, "News X Roadmaps," at the Georgia Tech Symposium on Computation and Journalism, Feb. 23, 2008. Panelists were Neil Budde, former editor in chief at Yahoo! News; Wally Dean, online/broadcast diretor of the Committee of Concerned Journalists; Jacob Kaplan-Moss of the Lawrence Journal-World; and Ramesh jain, computer-science professor at the University of California, Irvine.

AUDIO: Information mashups: Aggregation etc.

Caorl DiSalvo, Georgia Tech language, literature and communication professor, moderates a panel on "Information Mashups: Aggregation, Syndication and Web Services," on Sat., Feb. 23, 2008 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Panelists were Jon Brothers, CTO of the Sunlight Foundation; and Nate Nichols, creator of NewsAtSeven.com.

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AUDIO: Journalism workflow -- automation, productivity

Kristian Hammond, co-director of the Northwestern University computer-science deparment, moderates a panel on how to manage newsroom workflow. Panelists were Albert Hauptmann, systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University; Solana Larsen, co-managing editor of GlobalVoicesOnline.org; Carol Minton Moore, a one-time fourth-grade teacher and spokesman for the National Science Digital Library; and Rob Lamb, customer and partner development director at Clickability.com.

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