The Palm Beach Post reports that the Florida Board of Education wants a $1 million cut from the proposed sale of WXEL-TV/FM.
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January 27, 2006
Former KCRW commentator Sandra Tsing Loh weighs in on the Chris Douridas affair: “[I]f there is a silver lining for Douridas, it’s ...
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January 26, 2006
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler endorses viewers’ requests that PBS return Now to its original half-hour format, and agrees that programmers should evaluate the ...
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January 26, 2006
NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin lays bare the “dibs” system by which the network’s programs claim interviews with authors and musicians. Scott Simon, ...
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January 24, 2006
Former Pacifica host Marc Cooper delivers a tirade against his former employer and points out that Greg Guma, recently hired as the ...
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January 24, 2006
Showtime has ordered six episodes of a television version of public radio’s This American Life to air this fall at the earliest. The new ...
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January 23, 2006
The Boston Globe profiles Gather.com, the blogging and social-networking website backed by the parent company of Minnesota Public Radio. “We think of Gather as ...
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January 23, 2006
Nearly all Poynter Institute staffers surveyed say they listen to NPR as part of their daily news diet.
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January 20, 2006
“In the radio business, if someone’s not criticizing you for something, you’re probably not doing your job,” says Gerry Weston, who has ...
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January 20, 2006
“[NPR’s leaders] still believe it is the responsibility of the journalist to focus the attention of the listener on issues that are ...
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January 20, 2006
Does “a maze of twisty little roads, all alike” ring a bell? To some alert geeks, it did, and NPR science reporter ...
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January 19, 2006
The Radio Research Consortium has commissioned Audience 2010, a study led by researchers George Bailey and David Giovannoni that seeks to understand ...
Louisiana Public Broadcasting Executive Director Beth Courtney and her husband paid a $10,000 fine after the state ethics board determined that TV ...
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January 19, 2006
Greg Guma, co-founder of the Vermont Guardian, will become executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, left-of-center operator of five pubradio stations [Pacifica website], the Guardian ...
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January 17, 2006
A co-host of War News Radio on Swarthmore College’s public radio station discussed the show on public radio’s The World last week. (Link launches Windows Media ...