Tag: nonprofit

• Roots Town Radio goes silent after internal struggles

  This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Oct. 28, 2014. A little more than six weeks after it went on the air, Charleston’s first community radio station is nothing but static. The community radio station collapsed in a heap of dysfunction. Burr Beard, 95.7 FM WXDB’s vice-president and station manager, moved […]

  zackharold

  October 28, 2014

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  Burr Beard, Charleston, community radio, Dawn Warner, entertainment writing, feature writing, local music, longform, low power FM, music journalism, narrative journalism, nonfiction, nonprofit, radio, West Virginia, WXDB

• Friends keep jazz musician’s memory alive with nonprofit group

  This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on June 19, 2014. Bryan Boyd remembers everything about the last gig he played with Derick Kirk. Boyd had booked a gig at Soho’s at the Capitol Market and asked Kirk to come along and play keyboards. He showed up looking white as a sheet, […]

  zackharold

  September 1, 2014

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  entertainment writing, feature writing, jazz, longform, music journalism, musicians, narrative journalism, nonfiction, nonprofit, scholarship, West Virginia