About John Barth
John Barth lives in St. Louis, and is no stranger to Mizzou. He has just joined the advisory board of directors of the Columbia Missourian. And he earned his master's from the Missouri School of Journalism before a career that began in radio news reporting and now includes nearly every aspect of emerging Internet technology.
Barth was a vice president at Audible.com, the leading premium spoken-word web site, where he was in charge of the web site and original programming. He was the founding producer of public radio's Marketplace daily business update; news director at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia; and was general manager of news, politics and reference at America Online which, under his direction, became the most popular online news site. Earlier he also worked as a reporter for Business Week magazine and taught media and public affairs journalism at The George Washington University.
A Delaware native, John studied political science at the University of Delaware before coming to Mizzou for his masters.
Bill Densmore
2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellow
Bill Densmore is an expert on Internet information technologies and Internet-related business models. Most recently, he headed up The Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has been an editor/writer for the Associated Press, ComputerWorld Magazine, the Boston Globe and trade publications in business and law.
PRX: Online Marketplace for Radio Programming
John Barth, PRX's managing director and new Missourian board member, joined RJI for a “lunchstorm” discussion about the future of audio news and public affairs.
Oct. 22, 2009
Intro by Bill Densmore, 2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellow
Radio and newspapers used to claim defined times and spaces. But now we read print anytime we wish, on a screen. And increasingly the podcast encroaches on scheduled radio. Reading and listening endure, but their form and even their function may be shifting.
The Public Radio Exchange in Cambridge, Mass., is at the bleeding edge of understanding how the sounds of radio will shift in time via the Internet -- and how to pay for it. Will listeners subscribe to a single program, a story, or a virtual channel? Will they do so through their favorite radio station, or directly? These are some of the questions that PRX Managing Director John Barth and his colleagues are thinking about -- and beginning to engineer around.
Public Radio Exchange (www.prx.org) is an online marketplace for distribution, review and licensing of public radio programming. PRX also calls itself a growing social network and community of listeners, producers, and stations collaborating to reshape public radio.
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John Barth, "PRX: Online Marketplace for Radio Programming" - Part 1 |
John Barth, "PRX: Online Marketplace for Radio Programming" - Part 2 |
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John Barth, "PRX: Online Marketplace for Radio Programming" - Part 3 |
