Quick Takes
John Barth on New Realities
John Barth, managing director of the Public Radio Exchange, shares his thoughts and concerns about the public radio’s recent New Realities National ...More churn at Kentucky’s Public Radio Partnership
The interim president of the Public Radio Partnership in Louisville, Ky., will step down June 30, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal. Bob Irvine cited “disappointments ...What is public media?
After attending the Beyond Broadcast conference, Dennis Haarsager considers the nature of public media and says “a bright line definition” probably won’t ...Story Booth (is not equal to) StoryCorps
Public radio’s StoryCorps is taking pains to distance itself from the “Story Booth,” a promotional tool launched by the JetBlue airline. It ...KILI hopes to return to the air
KILI-FM, a Native station in Pine Ridge, S.D., hopes to get back on the air with emergency government funding after lightning hit ...Rukeyser remembered
Washington Post business columnist Jerry Knight points up the differences between the iconic, pun-cracking Louis Rukeyser, recently-deceased original host of Maryland Public ...Dennis Haarsager receives 2006 PRRO Award
Public Radio’s Regional Organizations gave their 2006 PRRO Award to Dennis Harsaager, associate v.p. and g.m. of educational telecommunications and technology at ...Sutton on New Realities
“One of my takeaways from the New Realities forum is that we simply haven’t organized our thinking to effectively deal with the ...Cast and creators discuss PHC movie
“It’s very simple and it’s very complicated at the same time,” says Meryl Streep of the new film adaptation of A Prairie Home Companion, ...Podcast with NPR’s John Hendren
Talking Communications presents a podcast interview with John Hendren, NPR’s Pentagon correspondent, who discusses his experiences reporting from Iraq.NPR blog a “work in progress”
Answering a reader’s complaint, NPR’s Ken Rudin says the network’s newish blog is “not seen by anyone here as a ‘by the ...Smithsonian-Showtime deal spurs legislative response
A House funding committee yesterday moved to cut Smithsonian salaries and expense accounts by $5 million and limit the institute’s “ability to ...CPB responds to November IG report
Have a few hours to kill and a love for pubcasting inside baseball? The CPB Board released its 70-page response to a ...Times-Picayune feature on WWOZ
“I think Katrina firmly entrenched WWOZ as the keeper of the groove,” says dj Black Mold in a Times-Picayune feature on the New ...
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