After Wisconsin: ‘Taking the Pulse of the Labor Beat’

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7172/lydersen_elk_and_early_take_the_pulse_of_the_labor_beat/

Monday Apr 11, 2011 12:06 pm

By Joe Macaré

Mike Elk, Kari Lydersen and Steve Early, joined by John Nichols of The Nation, assess the state of labor journalism at the National Conference on Media Reform

Video: http://www.livestream.com/freespeechtv/share?clipId=flv_6e9596ca-589b-4112-8be4-8961590f9dfb&utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=ui-share&utm_campaign=freespeechtv&utm_content=freespeechtv

At this past weekend's National Conference for Media Reform in Boston, three regular contributors to Working In These Times joined Granville Williams from the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and John Nichols of The Nation for one of the conference’s most timely and well-received panels. Conference attendees from around the country—many of them unionists, some probably nursing hangovers—gathered Sunday morning to hear some of the country's most prominent labor journalists "take the pulse of the labor beat."

Watch the video above, which was broadcasted live on satellite TV by our friends at Free Speech TV, to hear Kari Lydersen talk about the 2009 Republic Windows & Doors occupation that she covered in her book Revolt On Goose Island; Mike Elk complain that too many editors (and progressives) find labor struggles boring; and Steve Early describe American unions’ self-inflicted PR wounds.

FULL story at link.