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AUDIO: Explaining the L3C -- a new lease for newspapers?

Jennifer Towery and Robert Lang are an unlikely alliance. Towery: A young editor from DeKalb, Ill., and union president at a chain-owned daily in Peoria. Lang: a retired costmetics manfacturer from Westchester County, N.Y. But each shares a desire to find a new structure for corporate America. Lang originated the idea of the "L3C" -- a low-profit, limited-liability corporation which is now recognized by at least seven states. Towery wants to turn the Peoria Journal Star's ownership over to to its employees and readers. Both attended the Midwest Newspaper Summit in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sept. 17-18, 2009. They explain their common purpose in an interview with the Media Giraffe Project's Bill Densmore. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch an audio stream, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. ( Duration:12 minutes, 17 seconds File Size:2.95 MB)

You can also view a PDF-formatted slide show presented by Towery in Dubuque.

AUDIO: Morphing from non-profit to for-profit: ChiTown Daily News

 

Jeff Dougherty,  (see Media Giraffe profile) founder of the local online news community ChiTown Daily News, describes in a Sept. 19, 2009 interview with the Media Giraffe Project's Bill Densmore why ChiTown has gone dormant. Its staff plans to reconsititute as a for-profit public-affairs website and news organization.  To stream the audio of the interview, click on the carat to the left of the bar below, or you can download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. (Runtime: 7:35 minutes; 1.8 MB)  

Citizens linked with video and web: NeighborMedia

Cambridge (Mass.) Community Television (CCTV) the public-education-government access service for cable-television subscribers in the Boston suburb, is managing "Neighbor Media." Neighbor Media is an effort to bring six-to-nine volunteer "citizen journalists" on board CCTV's web and video services as contributors. It's funded by J-Lab at American University. In this 21-minute audio podcast, Media Giraffe Project writing intern Seth Kershner interviews Colin Rhinesmith, who runs the Neighbor Media project for CCTV. The interview was conducted Jan. 6, 2009.  You can launch an audio stream by clicking on the carat in the bar below, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.

Duration: 22 minutes, 19 seconds
File Size: 5.36 MB