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AUDIO: Mizell Stewart on managing newsroom change

Mizell Stewart III, editor of the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press, runs through his advice for how to change newsroom culture in this 58-minute talk to the Mid-America Press Institute in St. Louis on Feb. 13, 2010. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch the audio stream, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. 
 

AUDIO: Rochester, N.Y., provides tutorial on audio editing for the web at NENPA

 Will Yurman, prize-winning photographer at the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, runs through his bag of tricks on audio gathering and editing during this breakout session at the New England Newspaper & Press Association annual meeting in Boston on Feb. 5, 2010.

Audio gathering and editing is at the core of any good multimedia project, says Yurman. Whether it be a simple podcast, or a full-length video documentary nothing is as important as quality sound. Yurman also presented sessions on video gathering and editing (not taped).  Click on the carat on the left of the bar below to launch the audio stream, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. 
 

AUDIO: Retaining reporters and free-lancers

Tim Kane, executive editor of Turley Publications Inc., and media lawyer Robert Bertsche run a panel at the New England Newspaper & Press Association convention in Boston on Feb. 5, 2010, "From Full-time to Freelance: Has Cost Cutting Provided More Freedom with Writers and Photographers?"

Today, use of more freelancers versus full-timers is becoming the norm as cost-cutting continues in the newspaper industry. Hear how this transition is impacting copyright law, deadlines, copy-editing systems, beat structures and coverage.

Panelists with Kane and Bertsche were Tracey Rauh Solomon, of the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune and Ed Domaingue, of the Manchester Union Leader.

AUDIO: The art of digital and online photography

Nashua Telegraph photo editor Don Himsel provided a tutorial on digital and online photography at the New England Newspaper & Press Association annual meeting in Boston on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Here's the unedited audio of that session.

AUDIO: Bill Grueskin: What's the value of news on the web?

Some U.S. news organizations will move to start blocking aggregators like Newser from pointing to their web sites, according to Bill Grueskin, who left a senior editing position at The Wall Street Journal to become a professor and academic-affairs dean at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In this Feb. 4, 2010, talk to the Midwest Newspaper Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, Grueskin outlines key changes in news resulting from web and mobile digital delivery. It's been atomized, measured, re-aggregated, socialized and democratized.

Grueskin calls Newser an example of a "pernicious, troubling trend," in which aggregators with a few editors scrape content from news-producing website, and using perceived legal interpretations of copyright "fair use," make money by putting advertisements around short snippets of that news.

Grueskin also says the Kindle device marketed by Amazon Inc. is a useful reading experience. But, he says, "the problem with Kindle is Amazon owns the relationship with the customer." Listen to his talk below, which begins a few minutes into the tape and runs about an hour with Q&A from an audience of about 125 Midwest publishers, editors and executives. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to listen to thaudio of Grueskin's talk, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.

AUDIO: Front Porch Forum: Where private online chat thrives

Michael Wood-Lewis took undergraduate computer science and graduate business degrees, added a dash of career experience running non-profits, and then formed Front Porch Forum, in Burlington, Vt. Now the service has expanded to dozens of communities throughout Chittenden County.

In this 30-minute interview with the Media Giraffe Project's Bill Densmore, conducted at a Bennington, Vt., restaurant on Jan. 28, 2010, Wood-Lewis explains why he started FPF, why it's a for-profit, and why its more than 12,000 users use it, how he makes a living, and how he could see FPF expanding elsewhere.