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Radio exec gets probation
The Detroit Free Press reports that Michael Coleman, g.m. of WDET-FM in Detroit, was sentenced to two years’ probation June 22 for embezzling from ...Technology360: NPR vs. PBS web traffic
Dennis Haarsager uses Alexa to compare web traffic for NPR.org and PBS.org and finds them pretty close. But the website of New ...McCain amendment would help LPFM
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is sponsoring an amendment to a telecommunications bill (PDF) that would ease protections for full-power FM stations from ...Interview with Michele Norris
“I meet someone, and, after they figure out what I do, they tell me how much NPR means to them,” says All Things Considered ...The mysterious appeal of Garrison Keillor. By Sam Anderson
Slate‘s Sam Anderson analyzes at length the resolutely unstylish style of Garrison Keillor and dubs him “the shock jock of wholesomeness.”Van Cliburn opposes sale of Texas music station
Closing pubradio station KTPB will “devalue Kilgore College as an institution of higher learning,” pianist Van Cliburn wrote to the college trustees, ...PBS: pixilate that dirty mouth!
The Boston Globe reports on new PBS guidelines requiring producers to completely bleep compound swear words (such as “mother f*****!”) and visually blur the ...Dvorkin heads to CCJ
Jeffrey Dvorkin is leaving his post as NPR’s ombudsman to serve as executive director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists and the ...‘Jimmy Jimmy BoBo’ Lehrer Makes Birthday Party Newsworthy
The Washington Post reports that a three-year-old Minnesotan boy recently enjoyed a very special birthday party with, of all things, a NewsHour with Jim Lehrer theme. ...OTM interview about Public Insight Journalism
For the professional media, Public Insight Journalism is the way it can remain relevant [RealPlayer audio file], says Michael Skoler of Minnesota ...calendarlive.com: 800 WORDS – Laugh liberally
A Los Angeles Times writer examines the conservative’s distaste for A Prairie Home Companion. “With the arrival of Robert Altman’s new film ‘A Prairie Home Companion,’ ...NPR : Ultra Avant-Garde Radio
Hear what happens when an NPR producer processes the network’s programming through a Dada filter.Paid product placement said to be widespread
Here’s another chance for public broadcasters to demonstrate their trustworthiness … or not. Even Advertising Age says: “Something’s rotten with the state of media.” ...House committee restores $20 mil to CPB
The House Appropriations committee restored $20 million to CPB’s 2007 funding, but didn’t alter its proposals to eliminate $104.5 million in federal ...Atlas to exit PBS this month
Another change to the PBS executive ranks: Los Angeles-based Co-Chief Programmer Jacoba Atlas will leave her job at the end of the ...
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