Will Shortz, puzzlemaster for NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, has the hottest mind of the New York Times‘ male staffers, according to Gawker readers.
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July 26, 2005
Columnist Robert Novak reports on the “surprising relationships” that weren’t disclosed during the July 11 Senate hearing on public broadcasting, which he ...
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July 26, 2005
The Chicago Sun-Times goes behind the scenes with Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!, which recently switched to live tapings before an audience. “[W]e ...
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July 25, 2005
In the New York Times, This American Life host Ira Glass expresses mixed reactions about the show’s recent experiments with television.
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July 25, 2005
An executive council seeking the director of the new Iowa Public Radio network is looking for a candidate with “Midwestern cultural competency,” ...
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July 25, 2005
Producer Jay Allison offers stations tips for creating interstitial content on their airwaves, including “Sonic IDs”.
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July 25, 2005
The New York Times looks at Open Source, the new show from Christopher Lydon: “Because of the program’s interactive component, its benchmark of success might be ...
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July 25, 2005
The New York Times drops in on the set of A Prairie Home Companion The Movie. “All of us understand and respond to the fact that ...
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July 25, 2005
Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen shares recipes for fried sage leaves and deep-fried okra with the New York Times Magazine.
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July 24, 2005
A Harvard professor laments the cancellation of WBUR’s The Connection: “While a growing audience is desirable, that should not be the chief criterion for ...
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July 20, 2005
CPB’s redesigned website includes detailed results from opinion polls that measured public perceptions of bias in pubcasting programs in 2002 and 2003. ...
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July 19, 2005
CPB denied funding to Theory of Everything, reports host Benjamen Walker, who adds that it might be “the beginning of the end for the ...
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July 18, 2005
“Something fishy is going on at PBS,” says Candorville.
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July 18, 2005
Boston’s WBUR will cancel The Connection and move On Point into the vacated morning time slot, reports the Boston Globe. A Globe columnist praises the changes at WBUR and ...
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July 18, 2005
The New York Times reviews two recently published histories of public radio: “Although the two books share a lot, they are separated by a ...