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Moyers and O’Reilly producer exchange words at media reform conference
At the National Conference for Media Reform last weekend in Minneapolis, O’Reilly Factor producer Porter Barry confronted keynote speaker Bill Moyers in ...Classical KUSC reaps audience gains
Recent audience gains for KUSC-FM in Los Angeles have boosted its weekly listenership to 525,800, bigger than all other public radio outlets ...It seemed like a good idea, but will PBS viewers agree?
“This could be one of those things where we slap our foreheads and say, ‘It seemed like a good idea at the ...Wente defends leadership of KWMU
Patty Wente tells the St. Louis Business Journal that she is considering her legal options after the University of Missouri-St. Louis ended her employment ...Exxon returns to PBS
Exxon Mobil is returning to PBS as a national sponsor, four years after the company ended its 32-year sponsorship of Masterpiece Theatre (see ...NPR/PRI-produced program on housing crisis a hit
Ira Glass’s Public Radio International program This American Life usually gets five to 10 comments per show, but after “Giant Pool of ...Four-day work week at WVPB
To help employees save money on gas, West Virgina Public Broadcasting’s Beaver station (WSWP-TV Grandview/Beckley) is experimenting with a four-day work week, ...Rose steps beyond public radio
After seven years as president of North Carolina Public Radio (WUNC-FM), the Raleigh News & Observer reports, Joan Siefert Rose is moving ...WHYY’s On Canvas is what it “should be doing”
WHYY’s new weekly arts show On Canvas, which premieres tonight on its digital arts channel, is “just the kind of thing the ...Gross advises: Listen even during the boring parts
Speaking at Columbia j-school’s commencement yesterday, Fresh Air host Terry Gross tells why she gets better answers in interviews if (a) she urges subjects ...WaPo on NPR’s ‘throwback’ quake coverage
The Washington Post approvingly surveys NPR’s earthquake coverage from China, which it describes as “a kind of throwback to an era when ...WXEL: back in play on Treasure Coast
The licensee of WXEL-FM/TV in Palm Beach, Fla., and New York’s WNET have dropped their 2005 agreement for WNET’s purchase of the ...No more volunteers on the phone at Wisconsin Public Radio
Citing concerns about identity theft, Wisconsin Public Radio has traded in its pledge drive volunteers for a hired call center, reports the ...NPR’s Garrels on Iraq: “The reaction comes later”
In a lecture at Northwestern University about covering the war in Iraq, NPR correspondent Anne Garrels described an “unlikely partnership” in Baghdad: ...NPR’s Raz picked as Nieman Fellow
NPR defense reporter Guy Raz was chosen to join Harvard University as a 2008-09 Nieman Fellow. Raz will use his fellowship to ...
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