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A journalist for
more than 25 years, I'm a specialist in media and
politics.
I've written since 1992 for the top media trade
magazines, including TV Technology,
Multichannel News , Electronic Media,
Interactive Week, Broadcast Engineering, Video Age,
Publisher's Weekly, and others. I currently write the
"American Watch" column for Euromedia and
"American View" column for
Advanced-Television.com, both in the United
Kingdom. I'm again contributing to TV
Technology.
I was a syndicated correspondent for European Press
Network (EPN) until it folded last April. With the media
trades in a slump since 2001, I've covered state and
local politics for the Colorado Statesman and
The Aurora-Sun Sentinel. I'm also an occasional
radio correspondent for the regional NPR program, Thin
Air.
I'm the author of Financial Opportunities in
Educational Television (Financial Times M&T,
London, 1998), and Global Sense, updating Tom
Paine's Common Sense. (Media Visions, Denver, 2002
ebook, 2003 print book).
I've written news, features and columns for local to
international newspapers and magazines, publishing by now
about a thousand articles and essays since 1976. My
specialties are interactive TV and politics. My beats
over the years include education, transportation,
environment, health, film & live entertainment, and
personalities.
I entered journalism in 1976 as a cub reporter and
later columnist for The Aurora Sun, where I'm now
writing again (full circle). Lessons at the Sun
led to work as capitol stringer for the Longmont
Times-Call and Loveland Herald. I was among
the original writers for Westword, from the first
edition onward into the Eighties. I later served
as the managing editor for the Denver edition of
Colorado Daily, which led to editing the Denver
Downtowner and writing a popular Denver politics
column. The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain
News have both published my articles and essays, as
has San Diego Union and other papers, like Italy's
Il Mondo. Magazine credits include the first
edition of Colorado Expressions, the first edition
of Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, Colorado Woman,
The Denver Magazine, American Humane, Scholastic,
plus in-flight magazines for airlines in North and
South America.
My work in electronic media began in the late Sixties
as the newscaster and then news director for college
station KASF. I reported award-winning cultural affairs
stories for Voice of America in 1986. Today I'm a radio
correspondent for the regional Thin Air program
broadcast by National Public Radio stations in the Rocky
Mountains.
I began writing about the media itself in the early
Eighties as the film reviewer for Audience.
I later was managing editor of Cablevision. As
I left grad school, I started writing for the pioneering
faxletter Print Daily. I then reunited with
Cablevision as a freelancer in 1992, and
interactive media has been my focus ever since.
Freelance trade magazine
credits include:
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Advanced-Television.com
(UK)
Broadband Week
Broadcast Engineering
Cable
(UK)
Cablevision
Cable World
Cable Engineering Digest (CED)
Convergence
Electronic Media
Euromedia
Extra Extra - Extra Tech
Interactive Jumpstart
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Interactive Week
Internet Week
Kagan Euromedia
(UK)
Multichannel News (US,
Int'l)
Multimedia Monitor
NAB Daily
Print Daily
Publisher's Weekly
Spectrum
TV Technology
Video Age International
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and others...
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My research aims at gaining a gestalt before writing.
I've broken my fair share of news stories,with my print
and radio reports earning writing awards from the
Colorado Authors League (I'm a past president, and just
finished another term on the board).
For more info, please try any search engine using "Ken
Freed" as your keyword. I'm not Ken Freed the realtor or
educator in the Midwest, but the rest is likely me.
I'm open to freelance assignments. Stories on "big
picture" issues excite me most, especially when I can
include a global interactivity angle.
If you're an editor who can benefit from my
freelance services,
kindly send
an email. Have passport, will travel light.
