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Take a video tour of NPR’s election studio
NPR’s Andy Carvin offers a video tour of NPR’s election studio.Was ethanol industry’s rebuke of “Frontline” warranted?
The ethanol industry’s overreaction to “Heat,” a Frontline doc about climate change that aired this week, says “a great deal about the nervous ...Future of soirees uncertain at Nevada station
Don’t count on schmoozing with a glass of wine in hand if you drop in at a Vegas PBS event. Members of ...‘Contenders’ looks at ground-breaking presidential candidates from the past
In Contenders, a five-part series concluding on today’s All Things Considered, producers Joe Richman and Samara Freeman profile some of the most ...Nominations sought for pubradio Makers Quest
The first phase of Public Radio Makers Quest 2.0, a CPB-backed grant program for audio-centric experiments with new media, is off and ...“Did PBS Bury an Expose on Torture?”
In a posting on The Daily Beast, the new website from former New Yorker editor Tina Brown, Scott Horton wonders whether PBS’s ...PDs weigh in on strategies for pubradio audience growth
Thoughtcast explores ideas for reinventing public radio for a more diverse audience in this piece, reported by host Jenny Attiyeh at last ...Takeaway gets play in Seattle
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer interviews John Hockenberry about his new morning drive-time series The Takeaway, now airing on KXOT in Tacoma and KSER ...Political message from Lake Wobegon
Prairie Home Companion‘s Garrison Keillor dissects the righteous reform message of the Republican presidential ticket for Salon. Here’s a snippet: “In school, ...Erstling leaving APTS for CPB
Mark Erstling, currently the acting president of APTS, has been named senior v.p. of system development and media strategy at CPB. In ...Vowell explains the ideals of Puritanism
“She sounded unlike anyone else on the radio . . . which is what you want,” says This American Life‘s Ira Glass ...Lutman to helm St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Sarah Lutman is leaving Minnesota Public Radio to become president of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Lutman, who currently serves on SPCO’s ...Vocalo gets MacArthur grant
The Chicago Tribune reports that Chicago Public Radio will get a $1 million grant over three years from the MacArthur Foundation in support of ...Three new CPB Board members, one gets a new term; Halpern doesn’t
Democratic senators may have ended, perhaps temporarily, Republican member Cheryl Halpern‘s stint on the CPB Board. The Senate yesterday confirmed the three ...Bresnahan will head to Seattle
KCTS-TV in Seattle has hired Maurice “Moss” Bresnahan as its president, according to South Carolina’s TheState.com. Bresnahan has served as president of ...
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