Quick Takes

  • The Palm Beach Post reports that the Florida Board of Education wants a $1 million cut from the proposed sale of WXEL-TV/FM.
  • Former KCRW commentator Sandra Tsing Loh weighs in on the Chris Douridas affair: “[I]f there is a silver lining for Douridas, it’s ...
  • PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler endorses viewers’ requests that PBS return Now to its original half-hour format, and agrees that programmers should evaluate the ...
  • NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin lays bare the “dibs” system by which the network’s programs claim interviews with authors and musicians. Scott Simon, ...
  • Former Pacifica host Marc Cooper delivers a tirade against his former employer and points out that Greg Guma, recently hired as the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Nearly all Poynter Institute staffers surveyed say they listen to NPR as part of their daily news diet.
  • “In the radio business, if someone’s not criticizing you for something, you’re probably not doing your job,” says Gerry Weston, who has ...
  • “[NPR’s leaders] still believe it is the responsibility of the journalist to focus the attention of the listener on issues that are ...
  • Does “a maze of twisty little roads, all alike” ring a bell? To some alert geeks, it did, and NPR science reporter ...
  • The Radio Research Consortium has commissioned Audience 2010, a study led by researchers George Bailey and David Giovannoni that seeks to understand ...
  • (Courtney and husband fined for La. contract)

    Louisiana Public Broadcasting Executive Director Beth Courtney and her husband paid a $10,000 fine after the state ethics board determined that TV ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...