Programs/Content
How Baltimore public radio covered the protests
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WEAA and WYPR tried to make the most of their limited staffs and resources.
Quick Takes
WNYC teams with The New Yorker on new radio show and podcast
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The weekly hourlong show will be “built around The New Yorker’s award-winning writers, artists, and editors.”
Podcasting
San Diego’s KPBS seeks pitches for new podcasts
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The station is taking a well-tested approach to developing new podcasts: asking its audience for ideas.
Programs/Content
Behind NPR’s decision to remove its branding from a Latino USA episode
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Network execs determined that the episode failed to meet editorial standards.
Obituaries
Don Quayle, NPR’s first president, dies at 84
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Quayle’s vision for NPR was to provide “excellence and diversity to noncommercial radio.”
Tech
Public Media Platform aims to expand reach with new tools
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The system developed for digital content distribution hopes to increase adoption among stations.
People
Bill Deputy, former NPR audio engineer, dies at 58
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“He understood how sound can create pictures — pictures as vivid as any painting, as clear as any photo.”
Podcasting
PodScanning: A longtime indie producer starts a podcast
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Scott Carrier has a new podcast, plus podcasting news in public media.
System/Policy
What’s new for stations under the latest webcasting royalties agreement
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The new deal means increased reporting for some stations.
NPR
NPR, technicians’ union agree on contract
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The new contract drops several proposals opposed by the union.
People
Bob Parlocha, jazz radio host, dies at 76
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Parlocha hosted Jazz With Bob Parlocha, syndicated by the WFMT Radio Network in Chicago.
Programs/Content
Technicians’ union objects to NPR proposal to reduce job protections
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The union supporting NPR’s engineers and audio technicians is pushing back against new contract proposals.
Ethics
NPR clarifies its code of ethics for acquired shows
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NPR has updated its ethics handbook to clarify how it applies to hosts such as Diane Rehm, whose advocacy work prompted a review.
Podcasting
PodScanning: NPR is building a podcast discovery tool
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Learn more about NPR’s soon-to-launch podcast discovery tool. Plus, more news from the world of public radio podcasting.
Ethics
NPR to update ethics code, define when personal becomes political for show hosts
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NPR is clarifying ambiguities in its ethics code about the role of talk show hosts after a flap over Diane Rehm’s participation in fundraising activities for a right-to-die organization.
People
NPR’s new news chief will seek to boost partnerships with member stations
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“The result we need is more robust local reporting for national audiences.”
People
Susan Keese, journalist with Vermont Public Radio, dies at 67
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Keese “went out of her way to find the human element of any story.”
Tech
StoryCorps unveils app that records anyone’s story
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StoryCorps releases an app that its founder calls “the biggest experiment since launching StoryCorps.”
Quick Takes
Baltimore paper questions underwriting practices at WYPR-FM
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A lengthy cover story in Baltimore’s City Paper said the station fails to distinguish between underwriting and editorial content.
Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm will end right-to-die advocacy
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After her husband’s difficult death, Rehm helped raise funds for an organization that supports medically assisted suicide.