A Fine Export: Used to be the Courier-Journal was a fertile training ground for journalists who went on to become national newsmen. There’s no better example than Howard Fineman, who had the political and environmental beat here in the late 1970s, when the paper truly covered the entire state. Now, he’s best known as Newseek’s […]

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Looks like Louisville can get pretty fired up for the Presidential Race. I was tied up with baseball practice and the Mayor’s Cup quick recall competition, but Jake was all over the Obama event on Market Street. Really. Dozens of photos, and a complete recounting of who was there. Go see.
Later in the afternoon, when […]

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Let’s talk, for a moment, about our friends at Insight Communications.
Before the bashing begins, let me say that I’ve generally been pretty happy with my service - landline phone, cable and broadband. Pricey, but I’m running a business here and the service has been dependable. That’s what’s important.
Last Friday, though, things began to break down. […]

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Haha so, funny story, we still need to hire a creative and capable advertising executive to grow our media sales team.
Could that be you? Would you relish the opportunity to work with some very sexy and powerful bloggers and politico/media types?
We’re obviously a flourishing media operation with trillions of dedicated readers per day so […]

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Over at Social Media Explorer, Jason Falls has taken a long, hard look at the C-J’s new website.  He’s impressed with all the social media tools, but wait a minute. There’s no strategy to build a social media community there. Or so Jason says.
He’s got a problem with the strategy, not the nifty tools. If […]

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Every Democrat with a hundred bucks to throw away on bad food and expensive, watered-down alcohol will be on-hand for the annual Wendell Ford Dinner in Louisville this evening.
We’ll be there. Will you?
If so, introduce yourself to us during the reception or stop by our table to say hello. That’s the best way […]

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Haha so, funny story, we need to hire a creative and capable advertising executive to grow our media sales team.
Could that be you? Would you relish the opportunity to work with some very sexy and powerful bloggers and politico/media types?
We’re obviously a flourishing media operation with trillions of dedicated readers per day so it’ll […]

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It’s not often that we gloat or pat ourselves on the back (okay, at least publicly… cause you know our egos are giant in private situations). So it’s only appropriate that we do so on a slow news day.
Thanks to our advertisers who have included: Bluegrass Freedom Fund, Bryan S. Bush, Draft Horne, […]

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Politically inclined? Go read Daniel Solzman’s interview with Bruce Lunsford.
Bruce has changed his tune (okay, Achim Bergmann and his communications team changed their tune) and are now saying Bruce took a long, hard look at the U.S. Senate race. The previous bit, which Bruce said on-camera, was that he decided to run overnight […]

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Apron-Clad Celebs: The V.V. will be in attendance tonight at the 40th Annual Celebrity Dinner Party, hosted by Denny Crum, at the Olmsted. Money goes to Cystic Fibrosis. Coach Crum took the hosting duties over a few years back from the late, great Pee Wee Reese. Usually there’s a few local TV stars in aprons […]

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Here’s our semi-official introduction to our newest project: ‘Ville Voice Eats. We know food and dining is one topic that everyone is interested in — so we developed a new site dedicated to all things culinary. Our editor knows his way around a kitchen: Steve Coomes began his career in some of the city’s fine […]

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Just Blah-ging: I think what really surprises me is that the Courier-Journal published this letter in its entirety. Though he lives in my zip code, I don’t know John Finley or why he’s so anti-blog. When I  looked him up in White Pages, I learned he’s 65+. Maybe he’s got a quota of letters he […]

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We’ve come across a minor scoop in the local restaurant industry, and thought it would be a good time to give you loyal readers a little tease on something that’s coming very soon to your local blogsphere.
For the last month or so, our good friend Steve Coomes has been listening to what’s going on around […]

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We just got word that our friends at LEO will try this blogging thing again when it launches a new blog — General Sense of Outrage — with tomorrow’s print issue.
It’s quite the New Year’s resolution for the local alt-weekly.
If you remember the previous effort — The Lip — you win a prize for paying […]

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That gang of bureaucrats known as the NCAA has come up with a live blogging policy for its championships. It ought to be good. It’s taken six months to come up with it. That’s how long it’s been since the controversy started during U of L’s championship run in baseball. If you remember, the V.V. […]

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Over at Page One, Jake has a story of interest to anyone following the Kentucky blogosphere. We’re not going to make this a Bluegrass Report obit, but suffice it to say that it marks the end of an era in media. We’re happy to take up the slack. Here’s the start of the story:
Mark Nickolas […]

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Angie Fenton, the Courier-Journal’s Buzz columnist, is building a bit of a mini-media empire around celebrity news, Since October she’s been doing thrice-weekly live reports at WAVE — 5:30 and 7:00 on Thursday, and 6:00 a.m. on Friday. She says the TV work is a new challenge that originated in an unlikely way. When the […]

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Several months back, I started subscribing to Sports Illustrated for one reason — I didn’t want to miss any of Rick Reilly’s columns on the back page of the magazine. As a writer, I’m a believer that you’ve got to be a writing fan, that you’ve got to find writers that you like, and keep […]

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Thousands upon thousands of people have closely followed an incident involving WHAS11 and Page One/The ‘Ville Voice over alleged copyright infringement. (Yes, we’re surprised by the sheer numbers.) On October 25th someone at WHAS11 wrongly filed a complaint with YouTube which resulted in the removal of video excerpts our media operation was using […]

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Think somebody over at KFC needs something else to do?
The Louisville corporation sent out a letter to comedian/politician Stephen Colbert this afternoon — offering Colbert the KFC presidency. No word on whether Colbert’s show will take the bait — but it’s generated plenty of publicity in the blogsphere. Here’s a link to the letter […]

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