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MEDIA BLOGGERS ASSOCIATION JOINS WITH NEWSWEEK TO LAUNCH 'THE RUCKUS,' A NEW GROUP POLITICS BLOG

THE RUCKUS FEATURES GUEST BLOGGERS FROM THE LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTER-PLUS KEY PRIMARY STATES

The Media Bloggers Association Aggregated Feed is Live on PBS.org web site.

The MBA and PBS have once again teamed up to provide an aggregated feed of live-blogging posts for the PBS All-American Forum hosted by Tavis Smiley. More than 40 bloggers, will be covering the action live from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. The feed can be found here

Media Bloggers Association to assist PBS in processing requests for media credentials from bloggers.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY, September 14, 2007 – PBS has set aside a limited number of media credentials for bloggers who wish to cover the upcoming "ALL AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL FORUMS ON PBS” hosted by Tavis Smiley, to be held September 27, 9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. ET at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. Candidates scheduled to appear next week are

MBA Newsletter - Vol. I No. 1 - Feburary 4, 2007

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

WGBH/Frontline & MBA Partner on "News War" Special

SPECIAL INVITE to FRONTLINE News War Screening / Panel Discussion at National Press Club

We are still sorting out logistics so we do not have a firm set of dates yet but make a note that the MBA will be holding an MBA Conference in Washington, DC in May. The model will be what we did at BlogNashville in May, 2005 The hope is that we will be running these conferences annually and not every two years.

If you would be interested to work on this event in some capacity please contact Robert Cox at rcox at mediabloggers dot org. We will be particular in need to any help people can provide with meeting spaces in DC (we plan on holding multiple events over a 3.5 day period), help with sponsorships, logistical support on the ground, technical support, etc.

The next MBA Board meeting will take place via teleconference at 8:00 PM ET on Wednesday February 21st.

Note: We have yet to schedule the work but we will be developing a blog for the MBA Board which will list all the Board members, provide contact information, provide the public agenda for the meeting, a public summary of the board meeting (as is standard practice for boards, we will not publish minutes of the board meetings so that all members feel comfortable speaking freely).

MBA Members will be in the DC area on February 12th may reserve a seat at a special video presentation and panel discussion at the National Press Club in conjunction with the premiere of the new FRONTLINE serues. The event is sponsored by PBS, FRONTLINE and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

RSVP to Robert Cox (rcox at mediabloggers dot org) on Monday, February 5th

DETAILS AS FOLLOWS:

The MBA has created a unique opportunity for MBA members to participate in a fascinating discussion of the upcoming FRONTLINE special "News War".
FRONTLINE is hosting an online forum for media bloggers and other electronic journalism professionals, whom they are asking to weigh in on the themes presented in "News War," the four-part FRONTLINE special coming Feb, 13, 20, & 27, and March 27 to PBS. They are most interested in MBA member bloggers answers to the questions, "What are the business models of the future?" and "How will we get news?" (Although all are welcome to answer any of the questions on the preview site.)

The big day has finally arrived. We have gotten all the members into the new database and are finally ready to begin the long journey towards putting the Media Bloggers Association on a paying basis.

HOW TO PAY YOUR ANNUAL MBA MEMBERSHIP DUES

What I need you to do is go to the MBA web site and login. You will see a PayPal button. You know what to do from there. Once you have paid your twenty-five bucks, you will get a receipt which you can print out and the payment will be noted in the membership database. After you have paid the PayPal logo will no longer be visible. And that's it.

The dealine announced last month to complete the clean up for the MBA Member database is fast upon us - tomorrow.

I've been sending emails to members for the past month. Those that have not responded have been sent increasingly frantic, obnoxoious, hysterical emails. So, sorry for that but I am going to be very unhappy to learn that we removed someone from MBA membership only because they did not read the emails we've been sending.

As noted in each of these emails - and in the announcements and posts last month - those current members who do not use the special link they've been sent to complete the new "membership profile" form on the new web site by January 15th, 2007 will be purged from our membership list and will no longer be members of the MBA.