tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250073912008-08-04T11:57:42.843-07:00Dale Hobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944539078439445007noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25007391.post-21424112530909555552007-05-25T10:27:00.000-07:002007-05-25T10:51:03.161-07:00

When I started at the station in 1980, we had a community advisory board that met about six times a year, at our studios. Everyone lived within a half-hour drive of Canton. Times have indeed changed. A few years ago, we did an experiment with a virtual community advisory board--via email. Now, we're ready to get serious about the "virtual" concept--we'd like to build a community advisory board on

Ellen Roccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833147333535690586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25007391.post-1169833264057770222007-01-26T08:27:00.000-08:002007-01-30T12:36:42.983-08:00

Neighbors, I open this North Country Public Radio blog after months of station conversation about finding a place for neighbors across the region--and beyond--to talk to each other about public radio, about community issues, about the natural or political worlds we live in, about art or about family and friends doing interesting work. It's a shared blog. Members of the station staff will post

Ellen Roccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05833147333535690586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25007391.post-1162959270183167852006-11-07T20:13:00.000-08:002007-01-27T12:43:51.463-08:00

So, I’ve been following NPR’s coverage of the House and Senate elections all evening, watching and listening to some of this country’s finest journalists keep our listeners up to speed on election returns and informed about the trends and issues underpinning those returns. Talking just now with Joe Matazzoni, who heads NPR’s on-line coverage, and Ken Stern, who is NPR’s CEO. Both of them, along

Dale Hobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944539078439445007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25007391.post-1162954830166296102006-11-07T18:59:00.000-08:002006-11-07T19:06:51.490-08:00

Spent the last hour in the NPR control room watching co-directors Julia Buckley and Bob Boylen lead the crew through their paces. Bob is directing the on-air action, with hand signals and voice cues (via headsets) to the coverage hosts, Robert Siegel and Linda Werthheimer. Julia manages the action from out in the field, reporters filing from locations across the country, and from the studio,

Dale Hobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944539078439445007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25007391.post-1162952899603985682006-11-07T18:27:00.000-08:002006-11-28T11:49:47.066-08:00

As some of the polling places close on the east coast, results coming in fast and furious. I’ve been leaning over the shoulder of Joe Matazzoni, executive producer for NPR’s on-line election night coverage. Joe and Maria Godoy, on-line producer, are entering race results as they are called by NPR news analysts. Joe and Maria are both particularly proud of the deeply expanded on-line election

Dale Hobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944539078439445007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25007391.post-1162948748620726552006-11-07T17:18:00.000-08:002006-11-07T19:08:39.430-08:00

It’s raining in DC tonight but the town is hopping. Here at NPR, all kinds of activity from staff, of course, and from special visitors. It’s NPR Board week, so a number of us are observing the election night coverage in Studio 4A. What does the studio look like? A large warehouse of a room, wide open, with Robert Siegel and guests set up on a platform in the center of the room. Maps and charts

Dale Hobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944539078439445007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25007391.post-1162946042102767562006-11-07T16:33:00.000-08:002006-11-07T16:34:02.116-08:00

Just as NCPR gears up for the evening's coverage of regional elections, NPR is buzzing and getting ready to bring results from around the country. I'm stationed in Studio 4A, election coverage-central. I've received a copy of the 12 page Election Night 2006 game-plan for NPR News staff. I just asked Jay Kernis, VP for Programming at NPR, what would set NPR's coverage apart from every other

Dale Hobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944539078439445007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25007391.post-1162837578417388002006-11-06T10:18:00.000-08:002006-11-07T07:05:38.153-08:00

NCPR Station Manager Ellen Rocco will be in Washington DC this Election Day, attending a meeting of the National Public Radio Board. She will take up camp in the NPR newsroom for election night coverage, and will be sending out regular reports from behind the curtain at this major media newsroom. Who does what? How does it feel? What are folks saying off-air? Drop by this page throughout the

Dale Hobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944539078439445007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25007391.post-1143665248204825162006-11-01T12:46:00.000-08:002006-12-20T22:24:37.380-08:00

The NCPR staff is just the right size (fewer than 20) to self-organize at a family or big-band level, as opposed to forming a bureaucratic utopian community. That would make Ellen Rocco, station manager, NPR board member, and host of The Blue Note, our blues queen. The largest section of "the band" is the news gang, cajoled along by news director Martha Foley, who co-hosts the morning news

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