The former General Manager of WKRN writes:

I’m constantly asked if I miss being a GM.  My answer is I miss the people but not the job.  My last three years at the station were a time of tumultuous change. 

Michael Rosenblum introduced the VJ concept to the newsroom, we invited local bloggers into the station to peek behind the curtains and offered them classes on shooting and editing video.  We created

Nashville is Talking, and hired a local blogger to run it.  This was followed by the creation of a Volunteer Voters our political blog and another talented blogger hired. All in all there were some 23 station blogs at WKRN. 

My days are in the web now.  That sense of wonder, creativity and making it up as we go along that was once a staple of local broadcasting has departed for the internet and I decided to tag along.    

Read the rest here.

 H/T: Brittney Gilbert