Author: Mike Janssen
Cocktails to honor Big Bird and friends? That’s the spirit
When public radio managers gathered for November’s Super-Regional Meeting in New Orleans, home to Bourbon Street and the drive-through daiquiri bar, NPR ...WNYC shares previously unreleased recordings of Martin Luther King Jr. interviews
New York’s WNYC has released for the first time recordings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. interviewed on several occasions in ...New York’s WQXR offers weekly opera show starting Jan. 19
New York Public Radio will launch an opera-focused radio show Jan. 19 on WQXR, its classical station in New York City, and ...Philadelphia’s WXPN converts alt-rock stream to singer-songwriter format
Philadelphia’s WXPN-FM has converted a long-running alternative-rock stream into XPN2 Singer-Songwriter Radio, the broadcaster announced last week. The new stream, which can ...Mullins exits The World as Werman steps up as full-time host
Dec. 31, 2012, marked the last day that Lisa Mullins, longtime host of PRI’s The World, held that position. On Jan. 1, reporter and ...Sendak remembrance pairs illustrations with Fresh Air clip
As part of its annual “The Lives They Lived” issue, a collection of obituaries for people who passed away during the previous ...NPR’s Carvin stands by Twitter coverage of Newtown shooting
Did NPR’s tweeter extraordinaire Andy Carvin go overboard during the media frenzy surrounding the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn.? Michael Wolff ...NPR, Frontline cited for 2013 duPont-Columbia Awards
Public media outlets were cited for six 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, announced today by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. NPR ...Transom aids producers with Donor Fund gifts
Transom.org has awarded small radio production grants from its Donor Fund. The online watering hole and how-to site for radio producers provided grants ...Austin’s KUT to sign on with new all-music station Jan. 2
KUT in Austin, Texas, will launch its all-music station, KUTX 98.9 FM, Jan. 2 and adopt an all-news format on 90.7 FM, ...NPR adds two journalists to new race, ethnicity and culture unit
NPR has added two journalists to its six-person race, ethnicity and culture unit backed by CPB and preparing for launch in the ...WNYC personalities perform Beck’s “Saint Dude”
In a new video, hosts at New York’s WNYC and others bring to life “Saint Dude.” The song is one of the ...Get a taste of Austin with your holiday music
What do the holidays sound like in Austin, Texas? Austin’s KUT-FM is answering that question with an “Austin-centric” stream of holiday music, ...The ‘ongoing process’ of diversity
Public radio stations trying to diversify their audiences, staffs and programming have found an increasingly active ally in NPR, whose leaders have ...Video: Delaware’s first homegrown public radio station celebrates launch
WDDE-FM signed on in August 2012, becoming the first public radio station based in the state of Delaware. Governor Jack Markell cut ...
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