I gave a talk not long ago at the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, and
afterward the paper's managing editor, Jane Healy '71, asked if I wanted
to see "the bridge."
The bridge, it turned out, was not a new Disney attraction or a
cross-Florida engineering marvel. It was a large command center, built
into the middle of the Sentinel's newsroom, where newspaper editors,
television news directors and online news producers worked side by side
to coordinate a nonstop, multimedia flow of information to consumers.
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Who's in Control?
Story by Judith Bair
Photography by John T. Consoli
Think family TV viewing is a passive pastime? Who holds the remote in
your household? Who selects the programs? What's mom doing while she's
watching TV? Where do the kids sit?
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Radio Waves
Story by Dianne Burch
When I was a young girl, our family's entertainment medium was the
radio. Dad favored those Saturday forays into the world of opera, with
Texaco's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. I can still see the Bakelite
table radio that sat in our kitchen and vividly recall the time I
"accidentally" dropped it, trying to see the little performers inside.
Imagine my disappointment in discovering only crystal tubes.
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So, you want to be a Reporter...
Story by Brenna McBride
Photography by John T. Consoli
New York Times reporter Jayson Blair '99 knows the reality. The reality
is what summons him from sleep on a Sunday morning and sends him on a
futile search for a parking spot in a crowded Puerto Rican neighborhood.
It is the day of the Puerto Rican Pride Parade, and on that morning an
old woman had wandered out of her apartment, stabbed a stranger in the
back, and walked away. Blair had been asked to provide background
information for another Times writer.
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