Quick Takes

  • Susan Stamberg offers Katie Couric ten tidbits of anchoring advice. No. 6: “Combing one’s hair was never a priority here, and I ...
  • NPR’s Juan Williams told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News that “these kids don’t know anything” in reference to Los Angeles students protesting ...
  • McSweeney’s presents “A Rejected Submission to NPR’s ‘This I Believe.'” Money line: “But then you realize your bat does, in fact, suck.”
  • PBS’s winners in the 65th annual Peabody Awards include documentaries presented by American Experience, P.O.V. and American Masters. Also: the international co-productions of Bleak House, recently broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre, ...
  • The New York Times might sell its stake in the Discovery Times channel, a joint venture with Discovery Communications, the New York ...
  • Wired explores the podcasting predicament: Pubradio wants to embrace convenient new platforms, but will giving content away for free hurt the bottom ...
  • Greg Guma, the new executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, reported to the network’s board last month about the big issues he’s ...
  • BJ Liederman, who composed the Morning Edition theme music, shares the little-known lyrics to the ditty.
  • Authorities in the Russian republic of Dagestan have been questioning Kelly McEvers, a public radio freelancer, and have asked her not to ...
  • Garrison Keillor has contributed his voice to a British Honda ad.
  • “The radio station’s motto is ‘Because there’s always more to the story,'” writes the Washingtonian‘s Harry Jaffe about the new commercial news station, ...
  • FolkAlley from Ohio’s WKSU-FM, “unlike most digital stations, feels like radio — it has intelligent, welcoming DJs who clearly know and love ...
  • NPR’s Brenda Wilson shared this remembrance of the late Kathy McAnally, a public radio freelancer who died March 24.
  • At NPR’s blog, Robert Smith is sizing up the competition: the new Washington Post radio station that launched this morning. “You want to take ...
  • “National Public Radio recently issued a testy note to Boston Acoustics, complaining about reception problems with a radio NPR had bought in ...