The brave new world of open source programming: why it pays to give it away. Also, regional broadcasting worked in the Arab world, but failed in Africa. Can Latin America pull it off?
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This week, journalism's most mysterious anonymous source, Deep Throat, revealed himself to be former G-man W. Mark Felt. Media portrayals have cast him, alternatively, as a crusader driven by affection for the Bureau or a disaffected bureaucrat with an axe to grind. Bob reflects on the media's final installment of ...
Deep Dealings
And so an end to the quest for the true identity of the shadowy figure with a penchant for parking garages and an eye for potted plants. But Slate.com senior writer Tim Noah says, knowing what he knows now, that there was never a level playing field in the Deep ...
Latin Beat
A new media project is underway in South America. Frustrated by years of U.S.-centric TV news, the creators of Telesur say the network will present Latin American news from a Latin American perspective. They also say they'll be editorially independent, even if they depend on Venezuela and other governments for ...
Africa Unplugged
Five years ago, some media investors saw a big opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa. With the help of the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC), they created TV Africa, a pan-African entertainment and education network. But a mere three years later, the plug was pulled on TV Africa. Brooke talks to ...
Shaping Reality
It's clear that pan-Arab satellite channels have had a huge impact on Middle Eastern politics. But American University assistant professor Marwan Kraidy says it's not just the explicitly political programming that's contributing to political upheaval. It's entertainment programming too. Kraidy tells Brooke about one example - the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation ...
Darknet
For every move that media industries have taken to protect their copyrights, there has been an equal and opposite countermove by consumers. In Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation, J.D. Lasica explores the realm in which so-called pirates operate - slicing, dicing, and sharing media to their hearts' content. ...
Press Potlatch
At any given hour, the BBC's website is the most visited news site in the world. So it was quite a surprise when the organization announced last month that it's relinquishing some control of its online content in order to harness some of the energy of internet innovation. The only ...
Feedback Loop
Last month, Infinity Broadcasting gave its listeners control of the airwaves, at least on one money-losing AM station in San Francisco. It renamed the station KYOU, and switched its format to amateur-submitted podcasts. KYOU calls it "open source" radio. Meantime, in another part of the broadcast universe, Christopher Lydon is ...
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