Quick Takes

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