Author: Tyler Falk
Cephas Bowles, former CEO of New Jersey’s WBGO, dies at 62
Bowles was senior executive of WBGO-FM from 1993 to 2014.PodScanning: Highlighting new podcasts and industry news
In this new column, we’ll feature new podcasts popping up in the public media space or produced by pubmedia alums and news ...Former Nashville radio station finds new life as low-power FM
A forthcoming low-power FM station in Nashville, Tenn., aims to revive the spirit of a Vanderbilt University student-run station.WNYC loses content v.p. Chris Bannon to podcasting company Midroll
The opportunity to grow a podcasting audience for a company that’s producing some of his favorite shows appealed to Bannon.‘Soul is just right there’ for the winner of NPR’s Tiny Desk contest
NPR received nearly 7,000 submissions for its Tiny Desk Concert contest.Says You! host Richard Sher dies at 66
Sher created Says You! in 1996.Kathy Rogers, Houston Public Media’s ‘Hat Lady,’ dies
“The Hat Lady,” as Rogers was known, began her career in public media in 1998 at KUHF-FM, now part of Houston Public ...NPR making changes to voice of underwriting credits
NPR is moving announcer Sabrina Farhi out of her "primary" role reading its sponsorship credits, according to an email to member stations.Andrew Patner, arts critic for Chicago’s WFMT, dies at 55
Patner was a longtime critic-at-large for WFMT in Chicago and host of the station's show Critical Thinking.Serial subject granted appeal
Adnan Syed, the subject of the podcast, has a chance to overturn his life sentence for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend.WHYY awarded grant to archive 38 years of Fresh Air
Around 8,000 episodes of Fresh Air will be made available to the public in 2016.St. Louis Public Radio mulls response to subpoena
St. Louis Public Radio received a subpoena Jan. 29 from the St. Louis circuit attorney for “all raw and aired video and ...NPR aims to raise profile of its podcasts with new directory
NPR has a revamped, mobile-friendly hub for podcasts. But it isn't done improving its podcast technology.KUT preps ambitious newsmag ‘Texas Standard’
Inside a new hourlong weekday newsmag from the Austin, Texas, broadcaster.Donald Mullally, former NPR Board chair, dies at 77
"Mullally's early vision for a symbiotic relationship between NPR and its member stations remains a pivotal turning point for the nonprofit media ...
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