Year: 2006

  • Fellowships for pubradio reporters

    Fellowships galore for public radio reporters: a Knight Fellowship from Stanford University for Andrea Bernstein at WNYC in New York; a Knight-Wallace ...
  • New Realities — or the same old ones?

    Todd Mundt assesses this week’s New Realities forum for public radio halfway through and finds enough “mediocrity buttressed by self-satisfaction . . ...
  • The atmosphere of canned radio

    Laura Cantrell, a musician and a DJ on WFMU-FM in Jersey City, N.J., contemplates the art of conjuring a distinct atmopshere on ...
  • Rukeyser dies at 73

    Louis Rukeyser, 73, died Tuesday after a long struggle with a rare bone marrow cancer. The son of one of the first ...
  • The contextual ads that pbs.org began introducing in January will begin expanding onto more of its websites, Cindy Johanson tells paidcontent.org. “Once ...
  • Two of the San Francisco Bay Area’s five public TV stations — San Francisco’s KQED-TV/FM and KTEH– announced they are merging ...
  • Edtech expert Andy Carvin hosts PBS’s new blog for K-12 educators, learning.now. Carvin’s first column, posted today, challenges school districts to develop ...
  • Podcasting legal guide released

    The Berkman Center and the Stanford Center for Internet and Society have published an online legal guide to podcasting. Writes Lawrence Lessig ...
  • Kilgore College in Texas decided to sell its public radio station to a religious broadcaster in part because its audience growth had ...
  • The Washington Post‘s Rob Pegoraro reviews HD Radio: “Seeing this technology inch its way into the market is getting to be as frustrating as ...
  • The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports on the return of public radio’s American Routes to a damaged city and a new home there. “The question we’re all ...
  • “This thing called public radio is a club, and they’re not trying to let everybody in,” says Tavis Smiley in a Washington Post profile ...
  • Consultant Robert Paterson shares some thoughts about public radio’s New Realities forum, which takes place Monday and Tuesday in Washington, D.C. “For ...
  • Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media said yesterday it’s creating a new Center for Innovation in Journalism, which will further develop its Public ...
  • Mara Liasson, filling in this week as NPR’s Mixed Signals blogger, says she was “jolted” by a MasterCard ad — uh, underwriting ...