This week we preview a conversation on who owns Black media. Plus, newsrooms earning trust with communities of color and remembering Rick Madden, who died 20 years ago today.
Thank you for honoring the memory of Rick Madden. I will always remember when Rick told me when I was a producer for the Smithsonian that our proposal for the Peabody award-winning radio documentary "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" was approved and an agreement would be forthcoming. CPB support and Rick's encouragement launched me into public media where I have worked for over 25 years. I am truly grateful.
Jacquie Gales Webb
VP of Radio for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
You have done a great job, Tim, of doing the impossible, which is to articulate the importance of Rick’s leadership for the public radio system. I respected him, I always wanted his opinion on ideas I had, and I was heartbroken when he died. Any success I have had in the field can be traced directly back to all I learned from Rick and the many projects he funded. I still miss him and remain so grateful for him. Thank you for this remembrance of a truly great man.
20 years! Rick was the guy who let Paul and me through the public radio door in the late 90's. He had this hairbrained scheme to bring in people from outside "the system" to give public radio a once-over. That was the "Territories Project" which turned out to be a PhD dissertation-length environmental scan of the media ecosystem - and where public radio fit in. Rick also set us up to spend a year with public radio - NHPR, Louisville Public Radio, and WFAE/WDAV. We worked on their digital media strategies - in 1999! It was public radio's introduction to us - and our emersion into public radio. That project still lives on the CPB website. Remembering Rick fondly - he was truly an interesting guy, unafraid to try new things. Thanks, Tim!
Thank you for honoring the memory of Rick Madden. I will always remember when Rick told me when I was a producer for the Smithsonian that our proposal for the Peabody award-winning radio documentary "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" was approved and an agreement would be forthcoming. CPB support and Rick's encouragement launched me into public media where I have worked for over 25 years. I am truly grateful.
Jacquie Gales Webb
VP of Radio for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
You have done a great job, Tim, of doing the impossible, which is to articulate the importance of Rick’s leadership for the public radio system. I respected him, I always wanted his opinion on ideas I had, and I was heartbroken when he died. Any success I have had in the field can be traced directly back to all I learned from Rick and the many projects he funded. I still miss him and remain so grateful for him. Thank you for this remembrance of a truly great man.
20 years! Rick was the guy who let Paul and me through the public radio door in the late 90's. He had this hairbrained scheme to bring in people from outside "the system" to give public radio a once-over. That was the "Territories Project" which turned out to be a PhD dissertation-length environmental scan of the media ecosystem - and where public radio fit in. Rick also set us up to spend a year with public radio - NHPR, Louisville Public Radio, and WFAE/WDAV. We worked on their digital media strategies - in 1999! It was public radio's introduction to us - and our emersion into public radio. That project still lives on the CPB website. Remembering Rick fondly - he was truly an interesting guy, unafraid to try new things. Thanks, Tim!
Rick as cute, also.