Selasa, 10 September 2013

The Digital Daily from CyberJournalist.net

The Digital Daily from CyberJournalist.net

A Quest to Save AM Before It’s Lost in the Static

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 07:11 AM PDT

A Quest to Save AM Before It's Lost in the Static:

The digital age is killing AM radio, an American institution that brought the nation fireside chats, Casey Kasem's Top 40 and scratchy broadcasts of the World Series. Long surpassed by FM and more recently cast aside by satellite radio and Pandora, AM is now under siege from a new threat: rising interference from smartphones and consumer electronics that reduce many AM stations to little more than static. Its audience has sunk to historical lows.

"An oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to the..."

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 06:05 AM PDT

"An oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to the present For most of the 20th century"

- Nieman Journalism Lab
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