In the March 2009 issue of TALKERS magazine, they launched a new feature titled “The Frontier Fifty: A Selection of Outstanding Talk Media Webcasters.” It was an alphabetical list of 50 talk “acts” consisting of a wide variety of hosts, teams and shows representing a cross-section of the important pioneering work taking place in the burgeoning world of internet talk media.
The publication of such an “editorial staff’s choice” in TALKERS magazine marks another evolutionary milestone as, together, we experience the fascinating transition between the AM/FM/VHF/UHF (“terrestrial”) domination of pop culture during the second half of the 20th century and the emerging internet media’s (“stickless”) reign over the first half of the 21st –– already a decade underway.
Click here to see the 2010 list (hosted at Talkers.com)
Click here to read the online version of the accompanying article.
Perspectives on Domestic Violence – A PodJockey Documentary by Dr. Renée Kohanski
Liz Claiborne, Inc. and TALKERS magazine presented their sixth annual radio row designed to raise public consciousness about domestic violence. Titled “It’s Time to Talk Day,” the ambitious event was held on December 3, 2009 at the midtown Manhattan fashion showroom at Liz Claiborne’s corporate headquarters. The event consisted of more than 20 radio talk show hosts and new media journalists gathered to interview a daylong parade of public officials, celebrities, victims, and experts recruited to discuss domestic violence.
Dr. Renée Kohanski, a noted forensic psychiatrist and talk broadcaster, participated as a representative of PodJockey and the Talk Radio news Service. The following podcast documentary is a comprehensive overview of Dr. Kohanski’s interviews conducted throughout that day.
Along with the statements of respected professionals, Dr. Kohanski offers her own insights into the insidious societal plague that is domestic violence.
Listen as TALKERS magazine publisher Michael Harrison facilitates a discussion about KVI, Seattle – the station many point to as the first all-conservative talker. Featuring programmer Brian Jennings, KGO and KSFO OM Jack Swanson, former KVI GM Shannon Sweatte, KVI host Kirby Wilbur, former KVI OM Casey Keating, former KVI ND Dick Curtis, KOMO talk host John Carlson and TALKERS managing editor Kevin Casey.
Since its inception in 1990, the broadcasting industry trade magazine Talkers has participated in varied projects bringing a diverse array of leading radio talk show hosts to political, military and social hot spots around the world to familiarize the medium’s practitioners with first-hand details about complex topics often overlooked or simply glossed over by the mainstream media.
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An award-winning audio documentary* based on the book Through the Eye of the Storm (Chelsea Green, 2006), by Talk Radio News Service military correspondent Cholene Espinoza. This extraordinary program features sound collected in the streets, in stores, in churches and on one occasion, a government-erected wooden-framed Tent City.
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Talk hosts visit Israel
Podjockey.com to present documentaries chronicling
latest America’s Voices in Israel mission
By Michael Harrison
TALKERSMAGAZINE
Publisher
NEW YORK – We just returned from Israel and my head is spinning with exhilaration and information. For the third time in two years, TALKERS magazine teamed up with America’s Voices in Israel to organize a talk radio tour of the dynamic Middle Eastern democracy for an intensive fact-finding mission. Each of these journeys has been an invaluable growth experience with this latest adventure pinning the meter in terms of sheer, intense productivity.
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The Birthplace of the Father of Monotheism
According to the Bible, the Torah and the Qur’an, he was born in a place called Ur of the Chaldees. His father, Terah, was a manufacturer of idols, of gods. Apparently, this did not sit well with his son…
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Talkers publisher Michael Harrison standing in front of an Ashkelon house
hit the day before by a Hamas Qassam rocket.
Michael Harrison, in the parking lot behind the police station, holding a
Hamas Qassam rocket that landed in Sderot, Israel.
Michael Harrison standing on the hillside overlooking the Gaza Strip where
most of the world media observed the military operations taking place
just a few kilometers below.
Michael Harrison standing in the blown out living room of an elderly woman’s
house hit by a Hamas Qassam rocket in the south Israel city of Sderot.
Michael Harrison standing next to a sewer pipe bomb shelter in Nitzan, a temporary mobile home resettlement of the Israelis who were forced to
leave Gaza during the disengagement of 2005. Now they face rockets
launched from their former home neighborhoods.
Michael Harrison with Mayor David Bouskila of Sderot at IDF Headquarters
in the heavily targeted city.
IDF reserve officer, Irit Atsmon; Talkers publisher, Michael Harrison;
America’s Voices in Israel director, Fern Oppenheim;
Air America talk show host, Lionel;
and IDF reserve officer (and well known American playwrite/screenwriter/author), Dan Gordon
at the IDF Media Center in Sderot.
Talkers publisher Michael Harrison; Ashkelon Mayor Benny Vankin;
Air America talk show host Lionel; and America’s Voices in Israel director
Fern Oppenheim at the Ashkelon Municipality Underground Headquarters
in Ashkelon.
