Quick Takes

  • It’s not dead yet: MetaFilter thread about NPR’s “new” linking policy.
  • NPR technicians will vote Aug. 12 on a new union contract, the product of six months of negotiations. The National Association of ...
  • Of the networks, PBS had the most news Emmy nominations this year, Reuters reports on Yahoo.com.
  • Showtime cable network will docu-dramatize the saga of preteen reporters LeAlan and Lloyd Newman—Chicago kids who teamed with pubradio’s David Isay and ...
  • Radio World profiles technology at KUSC in Los Angeles and covers NPR’s recent reorganizing of its cultural programming departments.
  • Frontline producer Ofra Bikel recently spoke with NPR about the importance of media access to prisoners. (RealAudio.) Another Frontliner, Lowell Bergman, tells MSNBC.com that ...
  • Frontline won the Television Critics Association‘s news and information award this year, Zap2It.com reported.
  • After trying for seven years, Pittsburgh’s WQED won FCC approval July 18 to sell its second public TV channel and raise money to ...
  • Don’t stick your mic in the turtle’s butt. That and other bits of advice from NPR reporter John Burnett are intended for ...
  • The new hosts of Wall Street Week lack the stage presence and rigor of Louis Rukeyser, even though the veteran host’s delivery on CNBC ...
  • Chicago’s WBEZ might assume management of Loyola University’s WLUW, according to a Sun-Times report.
  • Sesame Street plans to introduce an HIV-positive Muppet character to the cast of its South African program and is discussing a similar move in ...
  • Folks at the community weblog MetaFilter are discussing the NPR anthrax story muddle, with a Fox News report as a starting point.
  • A Pennsylvania court sentenced appraiser/dealer Russell Pritchard to a year in jail and repayment of $830K defrauded through his appearances on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow, ...
  • At July 10’s House hearing, NPR President Kevin Klose offered his personal and professional apology to the Traditional Values Coalition for a ...