Tag: Perry Michael Simon

You have an opinion on what’s happening? Good for you. Turns out everyone has an opinion, and this time it’s going to be very...

Give it up already. “It” is the fight to “save” AM radio. I thought we’d determined that AM radio would continue its decline and...

The reporting should anticipate what a reader or listener is going to want to know and serve that up in the initial reporting.

You can argue about the reasons we got here, but we’re here, and maybe it was inevitable.

We don’t know what the future will bring, or if we have a future to worry about, but we thought we were videotaping and collecting everything in news and culture and it turns out we don’t know if we can see every Bugs Bunny cartoon.

People say they want balance, but they really want their news to reinforce their own beliefs.

What do you have to lose? You're in an industry in what seems like a perpetual tailspin.

The glamour of the Woodward and Bernstein days (or the Walter Cronkite days, or the Ernie Pyle days) is long gone. If you’re just starting out, no, you don’t want to be a reporter.

How do you define local news? More to the point, how does the rest of the public define local news? I don’t propose that we...

If your audience expects you to be talking about the news, and you’re not, the listeners will learn that they won’t always get what they come to you to get.