Quick Takes

  • CPB President Kathleen Cox hired a top FCC exec, Ken Ferree [his CPB bio], to fill her old job. The former Media ...
  • From the recent meeting of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers: The writer for OC Weekly has seen too much of PBS star ...
  • An American University project wants to develop best rights practices for producers. Profs. Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi found filmmakers frustrated and ...
  • The recording industry aided preservation efforts by public TV’s Great Performances and public radio’s American Routes and Beale Street Caravan. The producers were among this year’s recipients of ...
  • Christopher Lydon is returning to the radio with Open Source, a co-production with the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. PRI will distribute. Lydon hosted ...
  • “[W]e could be much more effective if we would just get better at asking listeners to give based purely on value,” says ...
  • Nearly half of distance-learning courses used by K-12 schools are given by college-level institutions, says a major U.S. Department of Education study ...
  • A different pro-family lobby–this time the Family Pride Coalition of gay parents–is raising a ruckus, calling a “virtual rally” on Thursday, March ...
  • “We think as a family it’s important to understand the world and all the people in it,” says a parent who turned ...
  • “NPR does a pretty good job, but it seems to delight in its own culture more than is absolutely necessary,” said NPR ...
  • “I don’t think anyone should ever get over the way this country was founded — on not just liberty but also the ...
  • “[W]hat the classical fade-out tells us more than anything is that the ‘custodians of public taste’ have left the building, ” writes ...
  • Public TV is the subject, not the medium, for a five-day seminar for journalists at UC Berkeley, May 1-6. The Western Knight ...
  • Perhaps prompted by the Buster fuss or a slow news day, George F. Will joins a gathering pro-marketplace chorus on the right: ...
  • Tod Maffin lays out his vision of “vertical listening,” which he also mentioned in our recent article about podcasting. Meanwhile, KCRW-FM launched ...