Hi all - Folks from PBS's News Hour (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/) will be in SF on Thursday and they are very keen to shoot a segment with Wikipedia volunteers. The subject of the meeting/discussion relates to Chris Anderson's new book 'Free' - they're building off of that concept and exploring the biggest free projects, specifically why people edit, what drives them, and what they think about the free culture movement.
Diane Lincoln, a reporter with the News Hour is coordinating the shoot. The interviewer will be one of the News Hour personalities. They would like to shoot/interview a group of 3-4 SF volunteers either at our offices or close by, likely outdoors at South Park. At this stage we've tentatively booked 2:00pm in the afternoon of THursday June 25.
If you're interested in taking part in this you can reach out Diane directly (she's also CCed on this note) at DLincoln@newshour.org.
I will be involved in this, and we may have one other Wikimedia person involved in the interviews either at the same time or immediately afterwards.
Thanks!
I did a pre-interview interview with Dianne today on the telephone. She said she;'d call me wenesday to set up the interview. She got my name off the list somehow. I told her I'm available and have done news TV before.
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On Jun 22, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Jay Walsh wrote:
Hi all - Folks from PBS's News Hour (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/) will be in SF on Thursday and they are very keen to shoot a segment with Wikipedia volunteers. The subject of the meeting/discussion relates to Chris Anderson's new book 'Free' - they're building off of that concept and exploring the biggest free projects, specifically why people edit, what drives them, and what they think about the free culture movement.
Diane Lincoln, a reporter with the News Hour is coordinating the shoot. The interviewer will be one of the News Hour personalities. They would like to shoot/interview a group of 3-4 SF volunteers either at our offices or close by, likely outdoors at South Park. At this stage we've tentatively booked 2:00pm in the afternoon of THursday June 25.
If you're interested in taking part in this you can reach out Diane directly (she's also CCed on this note) at DLincoln@newshour.org.
I will be involved in this, and we may have one other Wikimedia person involved in the interviews either at the same time or immediately afterwards.
Thanks!
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Hey - thanks Frank, got your call as well. Appreciate you taking the time to reach out to her.
Best,
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