The WELL: inkwell.vue.277: Angie Coiro, On The Air

#168: Angie (coiro) Mon 31 Jul 06 18:25

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:25:00 PDT

Oh, definitely. Just as there's a business section of the paper every day, as opposed to the occasional, crisis-centered union story, with carefully "balanced" input from labor and management.

For you Mother Jones readers - our revamped website has been launched, at motherjones.com. The creative souls there are eager for feedback, so give it a test drive and pass along any constructive criticism. "Why doesn't Pat Buchanan have a regular column with you guys" doesn't count! [Read entire topic]

#167: Paul B. Israel (pauli) Sun 30 Jul 06 13:38

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:38:00 PDT

Angie I have been followin the discussion with interest. My comment was more a commentary on the degraded state of American political discourse in which unions can be called special interests whose money would taint public broadcasting while corporate funding somehow is just good corporate citizenship. [Read entire topic]

#166: Angie (coiro) Sat 29 Jul 06 17:07

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:07:00 PDT

Thanks for that, Pam!

Paul, have you read back? We've been consistenty discussing corporations as special interests, and how to accept their funding without kowtowing to their editorial preferences. [Read entire topic]

#165: Paul B. Israel (pauli) Sat 29 Jul 06 15:38

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:38:00 PDT

Funny how unions are special interests and large corporations aren't. [Read entire topic]

#164: Pamela Calvert (plainspeech) Fri 28 Jul 06 19:17

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:17:00 PDT

A day late and a dollar short, the perpetual condition of an independent doc producer...

In response to Karen's question, the main problem with taking cash money from non-profits to do media that is of interest to them is that 99% of these projects are conceived as, or become, promotional videos for the work of that particular agency, a "sponsored project" to publicize their staff and programs. Non-profits need to account for their expenses to their own funders, and very few would be able to justify how a doc that isn't about them would be worth the significant investment of resources that could otherwise be spent on more direct program support. So in that sense it's not particularly ideological.

However in one conspicuous case non-profits with deep pockets and fewer spending restrictions are routinely redlined by PBS (not sure about NPR but I'd bet it comes up there too), and that's labor unions. Any producer who wants their work to see the light of day on PBS will not be able to take a nickel from a union, it's pretty much automatically kicked back as a "conflict of interest." (Would that they were similarly stringent about Wall Street Week.)

So the bottom line is that most independent doc work ends up being paid for by a handful of foundations. Gotta go write another grant now... [Read entire topic]

#163: Hal Royaltey (hal) Wed 26 Jul 06 14:15

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:15:00 PDT

Angie, Ed, huge thanks to both of you for an fascinating couple of weeks. I'm happy to hear that Angie will continue to check in here occasionally. Of course, the conversation can carry on for as long as we like, so if anyone has something to add, please do so.

Thanks again! [Read entire topic]

#162: Angie (coiro) Wed 26 Jul 06 14:07

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:07:00 PDT

Yep! It'll feel good to do that for a change. [Read entire topic]

#161: Gail Williams (gail) Wed 26 Jul 06 14:01

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:01:00 PDT

Will you take call-ins? [Read entire topic]

#160: Angie (coiro) Wed 26 Jul 06 12:45

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:45:00 PDT

Thanks, ceder.

Today's our official last day in this interview. But I'll be hanging out for a while - I usually check out what's happening in this conference anyway.

If any of you are unfamiliar with my on-air style, here's a chance to catch it. I'm sitting in for Willie Brown tomorrow on San Francisco's Air America affiliate, KQKE - the Quake. 7am to 9:30am, 960 on the AM dial, and live online.

Ought to be interesting! - it's been well over a year now since I've done anything live but a very brief guest shot on the air. Wonder if I still got it. [Read entire topic]

#159: Teleological dyslexic (ceder) Tue 25 Jul 06 16:44

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:44:00 PDT

Generic for use in the most situations: to build strong organizations without compromising their commitment to social goals, for example, would require the nonprofit to make organizational capacity a means to social ends. To do this use management processes to support quality improvements--not just those that enhance appeal to funders--and to enhance responsiveness to clients.

The same theme can be used for all nonprofit objectives. The book I meantioned uses for-profit organization management techniques to improve nonprofit impact. [Read entire topic]