Author: Karen Everhart
Karen Everhart is managing editor and interim executive director of Current, supervising the editorial and business teams, freelance contributors, designers and student interns. As a reporter and senior editor over two decades, she covered every major beat — public TV, CPB, public radio and the evolution of public media's digital service strategies. After her promotion to managing editor in 2012, she helped lead Current's transition to digital-first publishing. Karen was appointed interim E.D. in April 2025.
Foundations withdraw their option on WDUQ
The Pittsburgh foundations that bought a 60-day option on the sale of WDUQ last month have withdrawn their nascent bid for the ...June 10, 2010Funders buy time for rethinking in WDUQ sale talks
When Duquesne University declined to accept bids for WDUQ-FM by its staff and supporters, an alliance of Pittsburgh foundations stepped in to ...May 17, 2010Radio nets and PBS propose ‘public media platform’ based on API
Remember when policymakers referred to the Internet as the “information superhighway?” The analogy is being adapted to describe an NPR-proposed “public media platform” ...March 1, 2010Radio nets and PBS propose ‘public media platform’ based on API
... National Public Radio requested CPB aid to begin technical and business planning of a shared web platform with American Public Media, ...March 1, 2010Shared reporting planned for Ohio Basin ecosystem
If any news subject lends itself to coverage by multistation collaborations, it’s the environment of places like the Ohio River Valley, a ...February 8, 2010Going to news has been done, but going up against WBUR …
Boston’s public radio landscape shifted Dec. 1 when WGBH moved all of its classical music programming to WCRB 99.5 FM and adopted ...December 14, 2009‘Journalism in the raw’ distinguishes ‘The Takeaway’
Live interviews, news sound bites and talk segments featuring voices of people who are living the news are essential elements of the ...September 8, 2009Los Angeles: Radio Bilingüe has target but no channel
With backing from CPB, Radio Bilingüe is beginning to develop and test programming for a new multiplatform public media outlet to launch ...July 20, 2009Florida dean pushes to cut expenses, gets pushback about blurred roles
Dean Wright has asked his outside advisors to cut costs by consolidating management of its two commercial and three public stations—creating a ...July 6, 2009Two showcases to be webcast live from nonCOMM today
WXPN in Philadelphia will broadcast live from two music showcases during day two of nonCOMMvention, the annual conference for pubradio’s Triple A ...May 29, 2009New iPhone apps in the works for NPR
NPR will launch a news-focused iPhone application in July and plans another release for its online music service by September, according to ...May 28, 2009Planet Money grew ‘organically’ from ‘A Giant Pool of Money’
In this Q&A, Karen Everhart talks with This American Life producer Alex Blumberg and NPR reporter Adam Davidson.May 11, 2009WYPR faulted by CPB Inspector General
After a special review of WYPR-FM in Baltimore, CPB’s Inspector General reported March 20 that the station violated the terms of its ...April 7, 2009NPR cuts deeper as forecast darkens
In a new round of budget-cutting, NPR has reduced salaries and benefits for its officers and is proposing that union employees accept ...March 30, 2009Schiller: ‘No reason for NPR to go it alone’ on the Web
An often touted and tabled proposal to recast public radio’s web presence as a combination of content from NPR and its member ...February 2, 2009