Author: Mike Janssen
With Jazz Night, WBGO and NPR Music will take fans into venues to listen, watch and chat
NPR and WBGO-FM in Newark, N.J., are teaming up to produce Jazz Night in America, a series of radio broadcasts paired with live, high-quality ...New WYZR brings jazz back to Pittsburgh area
Former staffers of Pittsburgh’s defunct WDUQ-FM have returned to the airwaves with WYZR, a jazz station that signed on Aug. 31 from ...Out of Africa, Thompkins returns to New Orleans home
After serving a stint as NPR's East Africa correspondent, Gwen Thompkins was ready to head in a different direction. WWNO gave her ...Atlanta jazz station hopes smoother sound catches on
Atlanta’s WCLK-FM, a jazz station licensed to Clark University, aims to double its audience share with a new approach to programming music ...With credits gone, NPR’s off-mike staffers get silent treatment
NPR ended the practice Aug. 30 of crediting the off-mike staff behind the scenes of its newsmagazines, citing evidence that the lists ...Ombud’s critique of NPR series prompts rebuke from top brass
“My finding is that the series was deeply flawed and should not have been aired as it was,” the ombudsman wrote. Top ...NPR’s Shapiro will report from London
NPR’s Ari Shapiro will end his stint covering the White House and head abroad in January to report from London, the network ...KUSC broadcasting classical show from Santa Monica beach
KUSC host Rich Capparela has taken his Friday show to the beach. Starting Aug. 23, the Los Angeles classical station personality Rich ...Knell’s departure prolongs churn in NPR presidency
The unexpected departure of President Gary Knell puts NPR in the all-too-familiar situation of looking once more for a leader.Uncertainty about marijuana’s status casts doubt on dispensary underwriting
Public radio stations are divided over whether to accept underwriting donations from what could be an up-and-coming source of income: marijuana dispensaries.Kentucky public radio stations evaluate advantages of working together
Leaders of Kentucky’s public radio stations are considering how they might collaborate and consolidate operations, with a goal of cutting costs and ...Alabama network will drop Public Radio International shows
Alabama Public Radio will eliminate Public Radio International shows from its schedule, dropping This American Life and The World, reports Tuscaloosanews.com. Director Elizabeth Brock said the ...Pacifica’s D.C. station in dire financial straits, says interim executive director
Pacifica station WPFW in Washington, D.C., is in “a pretty critical financial situation,” according to Summer Reese, interim executive director of the ...Madeleine Brand will host new midday show on KCRW
Former KPCC host Madeleine Brand, who left the Los Angeles station in September 2012, will host a new midday show on competitor ...After public broadcasting, David Giovannoni dives into audio’s long-lost past
Retiring from public radio finally afforded audience analyst David Giovannoni the time to turn his hobby, collecting antique phonographs and early sound ...
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