Comments on: Stephen Clark’s #Backchannel: Leveraging Twitter in Broadcast Journalism

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On The Backchannel | jacoBLOG — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:13:20 +0000

[...] approach. Stephen makes tweeting and reading the news sound easy, but the fact is that while “The Backchannel” has invigorated his career and his approach, it requires a great deal of focus and [...]

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By: Shannon Paul

Shannon Paul — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:23:08 +0000

Hi Stephen, I’ll get you the contact information for Sabina. :)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:42:49 +0000

Sabina…. you left me no contact information.

By: Sabina Bauer

Sabina Bauer — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:09:21 +0000

Hi Mr. Clark,

My grandson Kevin Bauer went to Walled high school with your daughter, I believe her name is Heather. Thought I’d let you know he is one of the students at NMU that met PRESIDENT OBAMA today. I was hoping something could be said about our local students who met the president on the news ….

His gradma is really proud of him …. he has an eye on politics … who knows.
This may be additional incentive for him.

Thank you for anything you can do to make this possible.

By: Jessica Martha

Jessica Martha — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:15:03 +0000

I was very happy for you, because i like to see people like who are up to something that can help future as well that can make ends meets. I like very in other ways round as a Journalist. I will like you to be my very good friend as well my adviser as father.

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dreambox 800 — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:56:49 +0000

I totally understand tat as a community, no matter where you live to have a voice and a channel to talk is a wonderful gift.

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Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:34:04 +0000

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By: Keith Burtis

Keith Burtis — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:02:57 +0000

Stephen, I think we are actually talking about two separate issues here. #1 being citizen journalism. The fact that you are embracing and enabling that is awesome. You get two huge thumbs up from me.
However, I personally don’t want to design my own shoes (as per the example above) and that is where I seem to have the issue here. You were sort of saying that the news delivers a lot of ‘bad news’. Which is 100% true… just a few minutes ago I was getting my son ready for daycare and a news preview came on. Their feature stories were three murders. YUK.
So I was getting the feeling that you were saying that if I “the consumer” wanted to see something different, more upbeat, happy and encouraging that I would need to seek that out myself and tell you about it. My issue is that if the news really wants to deliver ‘good news’ it should seek that out and feature it. That is after all your profession.
Realize, that I totally understand that this is all new and I think mainstream organizations recognizing the fact that there are tons of talented people out there passionate about one topic or another is a HUGE step forward. I guess I wish the news and mainstream organizations would change so that instead of putting people to bed at night and waking them in the morning with doom and gloom that they would do it with something uplifting and encouraging. I think the world would be a better place for it.
Shannon, thanks for opening up this dialogue.
-Keith (@KeithBurtis)