Newsplex Head: Why Aren’t USA Newpapers Investing in Future?
Bill Densmore, who attended the Next Newsroom conference at Duke Unversity, provides this introduction to a video he shot at Duke:
Randy Covington spent a career in print reportering and TV news management. Now he heads the IFRA Newsplex, a state-of-the-art training facility at the University of South Carolina. Covington says the users of the facility are mostly not U.S. news organizations. In this five-minute video interview with Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project, he explains why.
Here is the five-minute video:
April 7th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
[...] Speaking of which, Leonard Witt of the Public Journalism Network (http://pjnet.org) blogged about the Next Newsroom conference last week at Duke University. Witt posted a terrific video interview by Bill Densmore with Randy Covington, who leads the IFRA Newsplex at the University of South Carolina. See the video here: http://pjnet.org/post/1765/ [...]