Author: Tyler Falk
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 ...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 ...
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