“I guess once Rukeyser left, it was inevitable.” That’s what Douglas Gomery, a professor and media economist at the University of Maryland, ...
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March 25, 2005
Major unions of BBC workers say they’ll take a strike vote April 4 if management cuts jobs as threatened, BBC News reported. ...
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March 25, 2005
Did NPR overreact in terminating its relationship with longtime freelance arts reporter David D’Arcy after his controversial December piece exploring the fate ...
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March 21, 2005
Employees’ unions fear the BBC will lose up to 6,000 jobs overall, the Guardian reported. The latest round of cuts, to be specified ...
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March 19, 2005
Union leaders say they’ll fight massive layoffs at the BBC, Edinburgh’s Scotsman reported. The BBC is expected to announce a second wave of ...
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March 19, 2005
The FCC announced changes to its low-power FM service yesterday and asked for feedback on other possible tweaks. (Release and order, both ...
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March 18, 2005
Anti-quack crusader James Randi criticizes Diane Rehm and public TV stations for featuring Deepak Chopra, Dr. Christiane Northrup and a psychic.
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March 18, 2005
MJ Bear, former head of online at NPR, has co-authored a study of media coverage of the Iraq War. It found that ...
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March 18, 2005
“Twenty-four hours at KBOO reveals what potential listeners will find at Portland’s noncommercial community radio station: the bizarre, the political and, in ...
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March 17, 2005
“Topics about the arts, the environment, or identity politics seem overrepresented, while stories about business seem underrepresented,” writes a conservative columnist of ...
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March 17, 2005
“To get any information at all from the Bush administration is a triumph, for it has become the all-time champion of information ...
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March 17, 2005
Tom Church, founder of the Radio Research Consortium, died over the weekend at the age of 61.
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March 16, 2005
Chicago Public Radio plans to make its primary signal all-news and program two additional stations with music, reports the Sun-Times.
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March 16, 2005
The Department of Education published a request for proposals for the Ready to Learn program. The department’s new priorities for the next ...
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March 16, 2005
Jacques Pepin tells the Hartford Courant his marriage survived because they put his 30-by-22-foot kitchen (and sometime TV studio) in a ...