Quick Takes
Taking his cues from those bushy brows
Fred Newman, who does all those cool sound effects for A Prairie Home Companion, is pretty in sync with host Garrison Keillor, he tells ...Upcoming symposium to continue examination of local news flow
Loris Ann Taylor, executive director of Native Public Media, appears in one of a dozen videos on the Information Stories website, which ...KQED now sharing content with local print outlets and Huffington Post
KQED is embarking on two new collaborations, with Networked Journalism and the Huffington Post. It’s the first pubcasting organization to join the Networked ...Man who threatened ATC hosts gets 46 months in prison
John Crosby, who plead guilty in April to sending violent threats to two NPR hosts through the network’s website, was sentenced on ...Norman Lear Award goes to Latino Public Broadcasting
Latino Public Broadcasting was honored with the prestigious Norman Lear Award at the 26th Annual Imagen Awards gala on Aug 12 at ...Dyson’s popularity triggers discussion among African-American TV news journalists
Michael Eric Dyson, a Georgetown University professor and ordained minister with his own pubradio show from WEAA in Baltimore, scored high ratings ...Public broadcasting in Canada facing challenges at age 75
The public Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is approaching its 75th anniversary. “The old dilemma — how to create original Canadian shows when it ...Documents submitted to FCC reveal KUSF sale details
Reporter Jennifer Waits continues her deep dive via Radio Survivor into the Federal Communication Commission’s look at the controversial sale of student ...Pubmedia “too focused on a narrow demographic,” Ikeda says
Ken Ikeda, co-managing director of Public Media Company (PMC), says he is “deeply, deeply concerned” that public media is not connecting with ...Lickteig taking helm at Weekend All Things Considered
Steve Lickteig is returning to NPR after executive producing The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM, according to NPR. Lickteig takes over as e.p. ...KIXE’s Smith resigns after one year as general manager
Philip Smith, g.m. of KIXE in Redding, Calif., has resigned after a year in the job. Board member Marlene Grant confirmed to ...NCME director praises KLRU interactive pledge drive
“In public media, it’s getting more and more difficult to distinguish among content, engagement and fundraising. And that’s exactly as it should ...SiriusXM trying end-run around SoundExchange
Billboard.biz is reporting that SiriusXM Radio is attempting to directly license music from record labels, bypassing SoundExchange, the nonprofit performance rights organization. ...Smiley alleges snub from President Obama
PBS talk-show host and social activist Tavis Smiley is creating a buzz today (Aug. 11) with comments on C-SPAN about his professional ...Latest print issue of SF Public Press hits the streets
The fourth print edition of the SF Public Press is out, a news collaboration of several nonprofit organizations including KQED, KALW-FM and ...
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