Chris Douridas, a host on KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, was arrested last week on suspicion of drugging and trying to kidnap a ...

Will Oprah come to Masterpiece Theatre‘s rescue? A Reuters story suggests that PBS will ask Harpo, Oprah Winfrey’s production company, to sponsor ...

A former freelancer for NPR has filed a lawsuit against the Museum of Modern Art alleging that the museum got him fired ...

Gerry Weston is stepping down as president of the Public Radio Partnership in Louisville under pressure from the nonprofit’s board, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal.

NPR has named Ted Koppel a senior news analyst and hired ABC’s Michel Martin (bio) to host a daily two-hour public affairs ...

Peruse WFMU’s extensive collection of velvet paintings (featuring the likenesses of Zell Miller, Osama Bin Laden and JonBenet Ramsey, among others) in ...

A major AM news station’s switch to FM in the nation’s capital is “a direct attack” on the city’s public radio stations, ...

NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin says some of his network’s breaking coverage of the West Virginia mine disaster showed “a lack of sensitivity ...

News about angry pubradio listeners’ lawsuit against Detroit’s WDET made the New York Times today. Seven station members on Dec. 19 sued ...

“Fairness and balance, Mr. Brancaccio, keep it in mind.” CPB Ombudsman Ken Bode chastises Now‘s host for lobbing “softball questions” at Craig McDonald ...

Professionals from the fields of public radio and the performing arts will meet in New York this month for the Music & ...

“[W]ho wouldn’t love a big, friendly, stoned (and “energetic”) tree sloth and all his singing, dancing buddies?,” asks Blogging Baby, in a ...

Slate‘s Andy Bowers (formerly of NPR) picks podcasts of the year, including a couple from the world of public radio.

U.K. residents (but not the rest of us) can now download 80 notable packages of news footage from the BBC archives, the ...

WFMU’s blog cites rumors that the FCC will open a five-day filing window for noncommercial educational stations within six months. But communications ...