Tag: Perry Michael Simon

I’m proud that I got to work on some unusual radio projects and the early stages of podcasting, but today we’re at the same things-gotta-change position as we were back then, only worse.

There’s plenty of reasons to feel optimistic about radio’s future. Did you know that?

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.