Flash Journalism

	Case Study 4
	CBC Radio 3

URL:http://www.cbcradio3.ca/

Interview Date:May 12, 2004

Location:Vancouver

Interview Subject:Rob McLaughlin, Executive Producer

“You shouldn’t be saying, ‘Look at that cool Flash,’ because that’s not what this is about. This about people’s art, people’s stories.”

—Rob McLaughlin

Within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a group of about twenty-five people is known as “Radio 3.” They run a few award-winning Web sites and an overnight nationwide radio program on Saturdays. This is not your granddad’s CBC (whether or not your granddad is Canadian); everything Radio 3 does is woven together with new music, and your granddad probably wouldn’t like most of it.

Among the Web sites, there is one—at the eponymous domain ...