Media Watch

Women Sports Reporters Can't Catch A Break

It’s 2009. Why are women still being treated like this?

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New Members Of St. Louis Media Halls Of Fame

New members of the St. Louis Print Hall of Fame:
Gerald Boyd
Martha Gellhorn
Bill Mauldin
Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.,
William Woo
The five new members were nominees receiving the most votes as cast by the St. Louis chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

New members of the TV Hall of Fame:
Charles Bohn
Jim Bolen
Dick Deeken
Bob Garger
Art Holliday
Russ Mitchell
St. Louis area members of the local NATAS chapter voted on TV Hall of Fame members.

Tina Brown: Media Will Flourish In Digital Forest

"It's most difficult, I think, for the people who are in their 50s who are part of a big media organization where they've spent most of their lives. They see it all changing around them and there isn't time for them to make the adjustment, or they fear making it."

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Whom Can We Trust Now?

Cronkite was a white man in a tie, with a calm, reassuring voice, and he could have talked us into almost anything, if he wanted to. But his legacy is a paradox: We trusted him to teach us to trust less.

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Young Listeners Tune Out Radio In Search For New Music

Commercial radio is far down the source list for finding new music. Where precisely does radio rank? Somewhere between irrelevant and are-you-kidding-me.

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Urban Sports-Talk Radio Comes St. Louis

Longtime St. Louis radio host Richard "Onion'' Horton, who is well known for discussing racial issues, leads things off.

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Former CBS Anchor 'Uncle Walter' Cronkite Dead At 92

Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman known as "Uncle Walter" for his easygoing, measured delivery and "the most trusted man in America" for his rectitude and gravitas, has died, CBS reported Friday.

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Why News Sites Shouldn't Plan To Charge Users

Lionel Barber, the editor of the Financial Times, has gone out on a limb and predicted that "almost all" news sites will be charging for access to their content within a year.

Almost all? Really? Seriously? I'll have whatever he's smoking.

Rams' Roundtable On The Radio

As the St. Louis Rams begin training camp and preparations for their upcoming 2009-2010 season, 101 ESPN announces that the radio station will be hosting a series of special “Rams Roundtable” shows.

"History Detectives" Stop In St. Louis

The PBS series History Detectives, comes to St. Louis in an episode that airs on KETC/Channel 9 on Monday, July 27 at 9:00 p.m. (rebroadcast July 29 at 2:00 a.m. and August 2 at 4:00 p.m.) to find out why President Millard Fillmore signed a pardon for an American Indian in 1851.