Author: Mike Janssen
Dana Davis Rehm to leave NPR due to restructuring
Dana Davis Rehm, NPR’s senior v.p. of marketing, communications and external relations, will leave the network May 6 due to a reorganization ...NPR will move production of Weekend ATC to L.A.
NPR announced today that this summer it will move production of Weekend All Things Considered to NPR West, its production center based in Culver ...WXXI broadens reach in seven-year partnership with commercial FM
WXXI and WDKX in Rochester, N.Y., are very different stations serving very different audiences — and that’s a big reason that their ...NPR targets younger listeners with four-city “radiotypes” campaign
NPR has launched a three-month multimedia marketing campaign that aims to increase audience for stations in four markets around the country. The campaign ...Former executive director of Oregon’s JPR sues over dismissal
The former executive director of Oregon’s Jefferson Public Radio has filed a lawsuit against Southern Oregon University and the Oregon University System ...PRX brings ‘mood ring’ of Eastern Europe’s millennial generation to public radio
With Generation Putin: Young People and Change in the Former Soviet Union, a new hourlong public radio special, Public Radio Exchange and producers from ...Houston station boosts security as DJ faces identity theft charge
A volunteer DJ has been charged with stealing donors’ credit card information from a Houston radio station and using it to make ...At 90, pubradio pioneer upholds a literary tradition
Decades ago, Karl Schmidt occupied himself by staging elaborate award-winning works of theater for radio broadcast. At 90, he’s still weaving compelling ...Last chance to participate in Current’s 2013 Reader Survey
Dear Readers, I wanted to take a moment to remind you about Current’s Reader Survey. Not that long ago, Current Newspaper and Current.org ...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 ...
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