About the Groovy Photo: “RCA Vidicon television camera in Ithaca College Television Studio with Roy Colle & Warren Hickman, taken March 14, 1958.” From the C. Hadley Smith Photograph Collection, Ithaca College.
About the Original Intent of this Blog:
News is in the news. TV is internet is journalism is marketing is communication. How do we chart this confusing fusion? Here is a place for me to post most of the important stuff; it is a reference place to help us navigate the oceanic information that merges and converges each minute of each hour of each day.
Law is all pervasive. I’ll try and keep you alert of issues from media consolidation, network neutrality, copyright and intellectual property, social justice, landmark case law, free speech issues, civil liberties, and so on. It is a herculean task to keep pulse of how the law is continuously being carved and defined, argued, and ultimately is applied in our courts.
This is a utilitarian place that will archive library news, reports, and acquisitions information. I’m a librarian-news-junkie, not a journalist, so it is recycled news. I’ve berrypicked what catches my eye. Yet occasionally I’ll be tempted to spout my POV; it is a blog, after all. And I am an opinionated woman. Hope it helps keep you posted of “What’s new at the library?” and in media.
Yours truly,
– Cathy Michael, Ithaca, New York
Much of my news comes from trade publications and organizations supporting the education, law and media industries. I thank the writers and editors of the following source sites:
AdAge
AlterNet
American Libraries Direct
Berkman Center, Harvard U
Center for Social Media, American U
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia U
Dom’s Digital Daily Dozen
FAIR
FreePress
Inside Higher Ed
Journalism.org
Library Journal: Academic Newswire
MediaPost
Media Law Prof Blog
National Film Board of Canada
paidContent
Reporters Committee for the Freedom the Press
The Hollywood Reporter
SmartBrief on Leadership
UTNE Reader
Variety
VideoLib (listserv) (hosted by Berkeley’s Media Resource Center)
