NPR has tried to make it easier for listeners to offer feedback but still has work to do, says Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin ...
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October 5, 2005
“Whenever I’m not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is what would Murrow have done? What ...
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October 5, 2005
“Beyond investigations, we must lay out a program for a new governance of PBS, one that is safely shielded from partisan hatchets,” ...
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October 5, 2005
Marc Steiner has stepped down as executive v.p. for broadcast and production at WYPR-FM in Baltimore, reports the City Paper. Anonymous sources cite friction ...
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October 4, 2005
A blogger and Bob Edwards fan reports that NPR barred Daniel Schorr from appearing on Edwards’ XM Satellite Radio show.
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October 4, 2005
The Third Coast International Audio Festival has announced the winners of its annual radio documentary competition (but not the particular awards they ...
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October 4, 2005
City weeklies often disdain the local public TV station, but not Nashville City Paper, which commented on the departure of Steve Bass, ...
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October 4, 2005
It’s time to dump CPB and create a funding system independent of politics, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) suggests. The liberal ...
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October 4, 2005
Public Radio International will distribute Here and Now, a midday news program produced by WBUR-FM in Boston. The show airs on 40 stations.
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September 28, 2005
The Boston Globe profiles Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s On Point: “Fans praise Ashbrook’s interruptions, his injection of urgency, his tendency to summarize guests’ points in ...
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September 28, 2005
NTIA announced $21.4 million in Public Telecommunications Facilities Program grants yesterday, more than half for public TV digital conversion. Projects will bring ...
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September 27, 2005
Bruce Drake will step down Sept. 30 as NPR’s v.p. of news. He will move on to help launch the network’s Local ...
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September 21, 2005
A coalition of media reform groups called on CPB to completely open its board meetings, the best parts of which are generally ...
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September 17, 2005
Blogger Rex Sorgatz has temporarily stopped selling T-shirts that say “A Prairie Ho Companion” after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Garrison Keillor’s ...
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September 14, 2005
“Tune in for a crash course in the sounds your favorite record store clerk was grooving to, like, two years ago,” says ...