Jim Blue, the incoming anchor and news director of WFFT FOX 55, has set up a new weblog specific to his new post in Fort Wayne. He thanked the Toledo Free Press in his first and, so far, only post. In a recent Toledo Free Press story by Barrett Andrews, Mr. Blue spoke of the decline of traditional media and his goal for the new WFFT news operation :
“It’s going to be a different world. Print, broadcasting and the Web — we’ll all find a new natural order,” Blue said, explaining how newspapers are now posting video online, and television reporters are learning how to write in print format for Web publishing.
Blue was recently hired as the news director and primary anchor of WFFT FOX Fort Wayne in Fort Wayne, Ind.
“Our goal will be to meld the Web and on-air coverage into a unique source for local information,” he said.
Expectations of the media industry getting out of the current rut are unrealistic, he said.
“I think to expect to get out of it, or to return somehow to what was once the way it once was — that’s just not going to happen.”
From the Jim Blue Blog:
My thanks to the many folks who have offered their congratulations. It is truly an honor to be chosen to lead the first news startup in the country in months. I can’t even remember the last time a station anywhere in the US has put on a brand new news product.
I also must thank Michael Miller, the Editor in Chief at the Toledo Free Press for allowing me to write my column during the last several months. Michael is an amazing journalist who is re-defining print media in Toledo.
The story of my hiring has apparently broken in Fort Wayne. A fellow blogger took note of my experience shooting the first broadcast video of the wreck of the steamship Gen. Anthony Wayne in Lake Erie. The General Wayne connection with Fort Wayne was apparently too good to pass up.
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