Archive for April, 2008

Clarksville ROCKS!
April 15, 2008

   Our opening season for our Surviving The Storm weather events went out in style in Clarksville.
   We were blown away at the size and enthusiasm out there. Rest of Middle Tennessee: consider that a challenge!
  We had more than 500 people, and boy, were they excited to be there. Big thanks to Andy and the gang at Austin Peay for [...]

What Are The Chances?
April 14, 2008

   Work in news for almost two decades and you see some strange things. Some odd bedfellows. Some insane probabilities.
   As someone who supervises newscasts, I have to ask myself: what are the chances of one news day containing two stories about people stuffed in trunks?
   We had the terrible story about a violent fight [...]

Channel 4 News Wins an Edward R. Murrow Award !!!
April 11, 2008

   I couldn’t be more proud of the Channel 4 I-Team, in this case, Demetria Kalodimos and David Sussman.
   We just learned that their 2007 investigation on secret dumping of radioactive waste at the Middle Point Landfill in Murfreesboro earned the I-Team a regional Edward R Murrow Award for investigative reporting.
   Our region encompasses Tennessee, [...]

Ok, Here’s How We Did It
April 11, 2008

   Our Channel 4 I-Team investigation focused on government employees, typically state employees, spending time - on your dime - playing around on the web.
   How do you track “personal” time on the web? And how do you know it came from state offices?
   We focused on Wikipedia, which, if you read blogs, you know [...]

Really Cool Web-Related Story Tonight at 6pm!!!!!!
April 10, 2008

   Web surfing and work collide tonight on Channel 4 News at 6 p.m.
   Reporter Jeremy Finley and Producer Don Mashburn of the Channel 4 I-Team have put together an interesting (and honestly, entertaining) investigation of public employees spending large amounts of time on the web.
   How do we know this? First, watch tonight at [...]

Better Late Than Never
April 10, 2008

   Dan Miller wears his old-schoolness like a badge of honor, and occasionally whacks me in the head with that badge. Truth be told, he’s the cutting edge on the WSMV staff when it comes to blogging. Dan Miller’s Notebook has been a crowd pleaser for years now, and the rest of us are just catching [...]