Way back in 2005, I appeared in a panel discussion on blogging at the Festival of the Book in Missoula. Others on the panel were John Clayton, of Red Lodge, and Patia Stephens and Courtney Lowery, both of Missoula.
Courtney, now Lowery Cowgill, was then working for NewWest, a pioneer in digital journalism. The site, alas, did not survive, but while it lasted Courtney was its animating spirt and consistently its best writer.
She is now working on a farm, raising children and somehow serving as managing editor of PBS MediaShift, in which role she conducted an email interview with me about Last Best News. The result was posted this morning. In addition to my long-winded ramblings, it includes an introduction by Courtney that I swear to God I did not bribe her to write.
Anyway, it tells you everything about Last Best News that you could ever conceivably want to know. If you were wondering what PBS MediaShift is, well, it’s something about which everyone involved in digital journalism should be acutely aware and deeply informed.
Unless you are relatively new to the digital biz and are still so swamped that you don’t even read books anymore, which you used to dearly love to do, much less have time to be familiar with things like the PBS MediaShift. So, yes, I know next to nothing about PBS MediaShift except that I hope to spend more time there in the future.
In the meantime, I can only thank Courtney and her colleagues for allowing me to go on and on (and on and on) about this venture of mine.
