Cops and Bloggers Part II: The Dagger Double-Teams Ed Norris on WHFS

UPDATE: Did you listen in? Tell us what you thought about Cindy and Mark’s appearance on The Ed Norris Show!

Back by popular demand, The Dagger will venture into the WHFS 105.7 FreeFM studios Friday, April 18 for its second appearance on the Ed Norris Show.

This time around, exactly three months from our last appearance on the the Ed Norris Show, it will be Cindy and Mark representing The Dagger as part of the panel for the popular Friday news Roundtable discussion.

The Roundtable segment, which features former Baltimore City top cop, Maryland State Police Commissioner and convicted felon Ed Norris and super-producer Maynard rehashing the hottest stories of the week with Cindy and Mark of The Dagger, will air from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. during the show’s new afternoon drive-time radio slot. Continue reading Cops and Bloggers Part II: The Dagger Double-Teams Ed Norris on WHFS

Cops and Bloggers: The Dagger meets The Commish (POST-SHOW UPDATE)

UPDATE: Five hours ago I was sitting behind a microphone in a CBS Radio studio in Baltimore and now I’m sitting in front of a computer in my house in Jarrettsville. Having had sufficient time to process my morning radio segment on the Ed Norris Show on WHFS 105.7 FreeFM, here is how it all really went down.

First off, I got tons of support from friends and faithful Dagger readers. Here is a sampling of some of the emails pulled from The Dagger’s inbox, pre-show:

Email Guy: “I WANT TO MEET ED NORRIS…I HAVE FOLLOWED HIM SINCE HIS NYC DAYS..CAN YOU HOOK ME UP NEXT TIME YOU GO???”

Email Gal: “Did I read this correct? Are you going on the Ed Norris show?
Are you tripping? Psyche!”

Thanks for the inspiration and encouragement everybody.

Now on to the show. Continue reading Cops and Bloggers: The Dagger meets The Commish (POST-SHOW UPDATE)

Citizen Reports - Welcome to the future of Journalism

We are happy to announce a new feature to our site, a forum we are calling Citizen Reports. This newest extension of The Dagger aims to bring more relevant news, information and discussion to you by opening up the reporting to those who are most interested and impacted directly by the issues - you.

The future of journalism is on the Internet and will involve the integration of multimedia elements (words, photographs, audio and video), reported and relayed in real time around the clock - 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

New Journalism will also rely heavily on the participation of citizen reporters. These are the everyday men and women who are armed with cameras, cell phones and laptops, but more importantly their eyes and ears and minds, as they go about their daily lives. Turn on the television news any night of the week and look at how many of the pictures and videos are taken by passing observers. These are the new journalists. Unpaid citizens volunteering to pass on information relevant to themselves and their neighbors.

Continue reading Citizen Reports - Welcome to the future of Journalism

Welcome Back to the Future

Greetings, you’ve just stepped into DaggerPress v1.0 beta (The Dagger 2.0). Now if you’d kindly scrape it off the bottom of your shoe, we’d like you to come in and introduce yourself to the new face of journalism - original, unbiased, immediate, interactive and, best of all, free.

Though it may disappoint some to hear, to paraphrase Twain, reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. Sure, we may have started and certainly helped perpetuate rumors regarding the death of The Dagger , but that was only because we had to be certain we were killing off any lingering hint of traditional media stagnation.

We have chosen a domain (www.daggerpress.com) and a host that will free us from the shackles of working under someone else’s system. We have moved to a platform over which we have complete control. We have joined in valuable new partnerships with people and entities who share the same vision. We have put time, effort and love into this vision.

We have done all this because we firmly believe the future of journalism is on the Internet and that such a future involves a never-before-seen level of interaction and participation among writer, reporter and reader. We all see what is happening in the world around us - our planet, our country, our backyard. We are all citizen journalists and via The Dagger and its powerful new tools, we are all now empowered to report, relate and discuss those things most important to us.

And to members of the traditional media, you’ve misunderstood our positions. You think that we’re locked in your world, that it’s your game. We feel that is incorrect. We’re not locked in here with you. YOU are locked in here with US.

Long gone are such archaic terms and practices as the news cycle, the deadline day and the morning edition. We are here, we are now, we are The Dagger.