Author: Tyler Falk
Tyler Falk covers public radio for Current. He has more than 10 years of digital journalism experience at outlets including Grist, The Atlantic Cities and SmartPlanet.
Political fact-checking website finds first pubmedia partner in California
The first-of-its-kind partnership launches this summer.By Tyler FalkMarch 4, 2015NPR extends contract for new underwriting voice
Jessica Hansen, NPR's new voice of its underwriting credits, will continue through, at least, June.By Tyler FalkMarch 2, 2015AIR announces new round of Localore projects, ‘Finding America’
AIR aims to observe and serve communities not being addressed by public media.By Tyler FalkMarch 2, 2015St. 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 ...By Tyler FalkFebruary 27, 2015Cephas Bowles, former CEO of New Jersey’s WBGO, dies at 62
Bowles was senior executive of WBGO-FM from 1993 to 2014.By Tyler FalkFebruary 25, 2015PodScanning: 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 ...By Tyler FalkFebruary 23, 2015Former 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.By Tyler FalkFebruary 23, 2015WNYC 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.By Tyler FalkFebruary 18, 2015‘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.By Tyler FalkFebruary 17, 2015Says You! host Richard Sher dies at 66
Sher created Says You! in 1996.By Tyler FalkFebruary 13, 2015Kathy 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 ...By Tyler FalkFebruary 12, 2015NPR 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.By Tyler FalkFebruary 10, 2015Andrew 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.By Tyler FalkFebruary 10, 2015Serial 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.By Tyler FalkFebruary 9, 2015WHYY 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.By Tyler FalkFebruary 9, 2015









