The nation’s capital will pick up a new commercial news/talk station that’s described in The Washington Post as “NPR on caffeine.” The Post, in fact, ...

Broadcast technicians represented by NABET Local 31 voted to reject “best and final” contract proposals offered separately by PBS and NPR. To ...

By the end of 2006, WGBH aims to raise $40 million for its new headquarters under construction in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood, according ...

Public Radio International named Alisa Miller its new president. Miller formerly served as senior v.p. of PRI’s content wing and joined the ...

Looking back to a Sept. 30 segment on PBS’s Now, correspondent Maria Hinojosa did “some good work” providing insights into FEMA’s post-Katrina ...

A New York Times feature contrasts next week’s PBS doc, Country Boys, with predictable accounts of the poverty cycle. “Everyone wants things ...

Seven listeners have sued Detroit pubradio station WDET for fraud, claiming they were tricked into pledging for a music-oriented station in October ...

StoryCorps, the oral history project launched by pubradio producer David Isay, has announced 2006 stops for its two traveling audio studios. One ...

The bones of former Masterpiece Theater host Alistair Cooke were illegally sold after his death, reports the New York Times. “At this point, we’re just reeling,” ...

NPR’s reporting is less liberal than critics charge, and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer hews close to the political center, according to a forthcoming ...

“I believe NPR relies too much on think tanks in general and on conservative think tanks in particular — especially when it ...

The format change at Detroit’s WDET-FM is “a very risky move,” says former General Manager Caryn Mathes in the Detroit Metro Times.

PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler faults producers of Now for their handling of a Nov. 18 field report about wages paid to Latino electricians ...

Meanwhile, CPB Ombudsman Ken Bode faults Getler for being too easy on PBS and producers of Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories in Getler’s Dec. ...

Students at Swarthmore College and pubradio veteran Marty Goldensohn are producing War News Radio, a show about Iraq reported entirely from stateside. “We thought ...