Quick Takes

  • The Anchorage Press profiles community radio pioneer Jeremy Lansman.
  • Retired PBS newsman Robert MacNeil discusses the sanguinary political landscape in today’s San Franciso Chronicle, claiming, “Democrats want to see more blood ...
  • Beat reporters can be “secret weapons” for online news sites when they prepare FAQs, primers and other nondeadline pieces that web users ...
  • More coverage of KGNU-FM’s purchase of a Denver AM station in Rocky Mountain News, the Denver Business Journal and the (Boulder, Colo.) Daily Camera.
  • Development Exchange Inc. has posted an overview and white papers from May’s Public Radio Leadership Forum.
  • David Lieberman reports in USA Today the view of Wall Street analyst Tom Wolzien: cable networks won’t take much more audience from broadcasters unless ...
  • Community station KGNU-FM in Boulder, Colo., is paying $4.1 million for an AM station in nearby Denver.
  • North Dakota’s Prairie Public Television lost its transmitter near Devil’s Lake in an ice storm last May and hopes to restore it ...
  • Responding to a listener’s gripe, NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin supports reporting results from Olympic competitions as they come in. NPR reporter Howard ...
  • The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette examines the growth of WYEP-FM and the related tensions between funky eclecticism and buttoned-up professionalism.
  • The Cincinnati Enquirer explains why Robin Gehl, p.d. at all-classical WGUC-FM, is known as the “velvet steamroller.”
  • A former finance-office employee at WTTW in Chicago was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from the ...
  • American University defended the firing of Susan Clampitt in a response to the lawsuit filed by the former g.m. of WAMU-FM in ...
  • The Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher takes a quick look at the operating costs of D.C.-area public radio stations.
  • Wal-Mart is salving its public-relations wounds by buying underwriting credits on KCET (The Tavis Smiley Show) in addition to NPR, which has been running ...