Year: 2006

  • What is public media?

    After attending the Beyond Broadcast conference, Dennis Haarsager considers the nature of public media and says “a bright line definition” probably won’t ...
  • Story Booth (is not equal to) StoryCorps

    Public radio’s StoryCorps is taking pains to distance itself from the “Story Booth,” a promotional tool launched by the JetBlue airline. It ...
  • KILI hopes to return to the air

    KILI-FM, a Native station in Pine Ridge, S.D., hopes to get back on the air with emergency government funding after lightning hit ...
  • House appropriators, apparently unsatisified with Smithsonian regents’ response to House leaders’ concerns about the controversial Showtime programming deal, yesterday cut $15 million ...
  • Rukeyser remembered

    Washington Post business columnist Jerry Knight points up the differences between the iconic, pun-cracking Louis Rukeyser, recently-deceased original host of Maryland Public ...
  • Dennis Haarsager receives 2006 PRRO Award

    Public Radio’s Regional Organizations gave their 2006 PRRO Award to Dennis Harsaager, associate v.p. and g.m. of educational telecommunications and technology at ...
  • Sutton on New Realities

    “One of my takeaways from the New Realities forum is that we simply haven’t organized our thinking to effectively deal with the ...
  • Cast and creators discuss PHC movie

    “It’s very simple and it’s very complicated at the same time,” says Meryl Streep of the new film adaptation of A Prairie Home Companion, ...
  • Podcast with NPR’s John Hendren

    Talking Communications presents a podcast interview with John Hendren, NPR’s Pentagon correspondent, who discusses his experiences reporting from Iraq.
  • NPR blog a “work in progress”

    Answering a reader’s complaint, NPR’s Ken Rudin says the network’s newish blog is “not seen by anyone here as a ‘by the ...
  • Smithsonian-Showtime deal spurs legislative response

    A House funding committee yesterday moved to cut Smithsonian salaries and expense accounts by $5 million and limit the institute’s “ability to ...
  • CPB responds to November IG report

    Have a few hours to kill and a love for pubcasting inside baseball? The CPB Board released its 70-page response to a ...
  • Times-Picayune feature on WWOZ

    “I think Katrina firmly entrenched WWOZ as the keeper of the groove,” says dj Black Mold in a Times-Picayune feature on the New ...
  • CPB board adopts new governance policies

    The CPB Board adopted new governance policies and approved changes to others earlier this week as part of its ongoing effort to ...
  • Sandy Tolan’s “Lemon Tree”

    Independent public radio producer Sandy Tolan’s new book, The Lemon Tree, has been published by Bloomsbury USA. The book explores the relationship between an ...