Email pioneer Aaron Barnhart interviewed in 1996

Of all the interviews I’ve conducted, none have influenced my career more than this 1996 sit-down (archive.org/de...) with Aaron Barnhart (www.primetimer...) , whose Late Show News newsletter pioneered the email news biz.
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Listen to us discuss his model for how, in my words, “a lot of us in this profession will … do our work in the future” and you’ll hear the siren call that two years later would draw me from radio to the internet (www.meyersonst...) -and, not much later, to lead the Chicago Tribune’s email program (www.meyersonst...) .
Decades later, Barnhart’s work inspired the launch of Chicago Public Square (www.poynter.or...) .
First aired June 23, 1996, this show remains great and relevant listening, and it spotlights Aaron as one of the internet’s early visionaries.
Also: A cool time-capsule about the state of late-night TV in 1996.
Listen here (archive.org/de...) .
If you like this, check out more of my conversations with thought-leaders through the years on this website (www.meyersonstr...) , in Apple Music (itunes.apple.c...) , on Spotify (open.spotify.c...) , via your favorite podcast player (feeds.feedburne...) and at Chicago Public Square (www.chicagopub...) .