Author: Tyler Falk
Technicians’ union objects to NPR proposal to reduce job protections
The union supporting NPR’s engineers and audio technicians is pushing back against new contract proposals.NPR clarifies its code of ethics for acquired shows
NPR has updated its ethics handbook to clarify how it applies to hosts such as Diane Rehm, whose advocacy work prompted a ...PodScanning: NPR is building a podcast discovery tool
Learn more about NPR's soon-to-launch podcast discovery tool. Plus, more news from the world of public radio podcasting.NPR to update ethics code, define when personal becomes political for show hosts
NPR is clarifying ambiguities in its ethics code about the role of talk show hosts after a flap over Diane Rehm’s participation ...NPR’s new news chief will seek to boost partnerships with member stations
“The result we need is more robust local reporting for national audiences.”Susan Keese, journalist with Vermont Public Radio, dies at 67
Keese “went out of her way to find the human element of any story.”StoryCorps unveils app that records anyone’s story
StoryCorps releases an app that its founder calls “the biggest experiment since launching StoryCorps.”Baltimore paper questions underwriting practices at WYPR-FM
A lengthy cover story in Baltimore's City Paper said the station fails to distinguish between underwriting and editorial content.Diane Rehm will end right-to-die advocacy
After her husband's difficult death, Rehm helped raise funds for an organization that supports medically assisted suicide.NPR: ‘There will be more Invisibilia episodes’
NPR's plan for Invisibilia expected to be shared with station managers in late April.PodScanning: New podcasts take up issues of race and identity
Two new podcasts launch about issues of race at St. Louis Public Radio and Michigan Radio.Political fact-checking website finds first pubmedia partner in California
The first-of-its-kind partnership launches this summer.NPR extends contract for new underwriting voice
Jessica Hansen, NPR's new voice of its underwriting credits, will continue through, at least, June.AIR announces new round of Localore projects, ‘Finding America’
AIR aims to observe and serve communities not being addressed by public media.St. Louis Public Radio subpoena dropped
The circuit attorney for St. Louis will drop a subpoena that had sought audio and video recorded by station reporters during a ...
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