Quick Takes
New blog lifts the hood on NPR.org
NPR launched Inside NPR.org, a blog, similar to advance blogs used to shape new programs such as The Bryant Park Project, that ...Getler: WW cover-up is worse than the crime
Washington Week made an apparently innocent slip-of-the-tongue much worse by erasing it from the program’s transcript, writes PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler. On ...University of Georgia buys TV station near Athens as journalism lab
At a time when educational institutions are more likely to be spinning off broadcast stations, the University of Georgia has bought a ...Two local shows cancelled as Jones departs WBEZ
Chicago Public Radio programming v.p. Ron Jones exits for “a new adventure” as the station cuts two local programs, Hello Beautiful and ...Ira Glass on Limbaugh: “That is some chops”
Rush Limbaugh, Premiere Radio Networks’ $400 million man, is profiled in the July 6 New York Times Magazine, published a few days ...PBS launches teachers’ social site
PBS launched PBS Teachers Connect, a new area of its PBS Teachers site that will allow member educators to start discussions and ...VP debate Ifill’s ‘toughest assignment’
That’s what the Washington Week host told PBS’s Engage blog this week. Ifill was the most recent subject of the social media ...KETC launches mortgage crisis resource project
KETC in St. Louis has launched Facing the Mortgage Crisis, created in partnership with CPB. The multimedia project–which includes a partnership with ...NPR, eight stations honored with Murrows; Bob Edwards wins first for satellite radio
NPR News, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and XM Satellite Radio’s Bob Edwards Show are winners of 2008 Edward R. Murrow Awards for radio ...Enhanced web resource for radio programmers
Public Radio Program Directors unveiled its redesigned website today. Upgrades include an improved search function, a knowledge base of tricks of the ...Akron licensee’s new name harks waaaaay back
PBS 45 & 49, a public TV station covering northeast Ohio, including Akron, Canton, Cleveland and Youngstown, will reach back into the ...Signs point to financial crisis at Pacifica
Pacifica’s KPFT-FM in Houston has taken several steps to respond to what are being called “potentially crippling financial situations” throughout the network. ...KOCE observes 35th anniversary
On the occasion of its 35th anniversary, KOCE-TV in Orange County, Calif., is considering how it can add to its local coverage, ...Takeaway producers search for new, interactive approaches
Fast Company focuses on the startup of public radio’s The Takeaway, which hinged on a collaborative effort with the design school at Stanford University. An observation: ...Streaming video of streaming lava
Want to see what molten lava looks like underwater, as it advances toward you on the ocean floor? WNET gives top priority ...
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