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Congrats To Demetria and David
June 6, 2008

Why isn’t Demetria Kalodimos on the air Thursday and Friday?
She’s in Miami, at the national Investigative Reporters and Editors Convention… where she’s being honored with a national IRE award certificate! Photojournalist David Sussman was her partner on the project.
She won one of the nation’s highest investigative reporting awards for a series of stories that revealed [...]

Vacation Edition: The Great Diaper Conspiracy
May 26, 2008

   Stocking up for our one-week getaway, I’ve finally clued in to one of the baby-related consumer product conspiracies - one that Mrs. News Director has apparently been keen to for some time:
   The great Diaper Barrons have figured it out: the consumer is willing to pay a certain acceptable price for a “package” of diapers. [...]

WSMV is on TWITTER and… we’re TWEETING!
May 11, 2008

   Yes, only in today’s short-attention span new-media world would this headline not be a joke.
   It’s not.
   Check out www.twitter.com. This is the next generation of social networking/info sharing.
   Basically, it’s a multiplatform “microblogging” site that delivers messages to a web application, web client, text messaging, e-mail, or any or all of the above.
   Because, [...]

Smoke Clearing: Fallout From Channel 4 I-Team Probe
May 7, 2008

Since State Rep. Joe McCord clearly declined opportunity to comment to WSMV before, during, and after the airing of our story, I thought I’d reprint this AP story, which contains his response.
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State Rep. Joe McCord acknowledges smoking in his office
Eds: UPDATES with details, reax.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — State Rep. Joe [...]

State Budget Cuts - Live Blog Coverage
May 7, 2008

Stay logged on for a good test of blogging real news in real time today.
Go to Cara Kumari’s Blog from the state capitol around 11 a.m.
The Governor will be laying out some details of how he’ll cut $500 million from the state budget, and which jobs are at stake.
Cara will blog details from the briefing [...]

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 [...]