Broadcast news hosts using sentence fragments. A Chicago Tribune article takes note of this increasingly popular trend, which has at times swept up a ...

Microsoft expects Slate, its online magazine, will be sold by the end of the year, reports the Online Journalism Review. Media reports have named the ...

Pacifica has hired Roy Campanella II as g.m. of KPFA in Berkeley, Calif. The Internet Movie Database details Campanella’s television career, which ...

Public radio stations in Minnesota not affiliated with Minnesota Public Radio have launched a marketing campaign to distance themselves from the megacaster, ...

Boston University has concluded its investigation of WBUR-FM and found merit in some of the allegations leveled against the station and its ...

Sarah Vowell, whose voice can be heard in the new Pixar blockbuster The Incredibles, discusses her role with the Hollywood Reporter. “[I]t’s a nice thing to ...

NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin raises questions about the ties between the network’s Day to Day and Slate in light of the Microsoft-owned mag’s announcement that ...

FCC Auction 37 began Nov. 3. You can follow it at this FCC site (follow the link to “Bidding System and Results”—the ...

Citing declines in traditional revenue sources, KERA-TV/FM in Dallas announced job cuts and schedule changes that trim $1.1 million from its budget, ...

NPR has combined its operations and engineering departments and promoted longtime employee David Argentieri as their senior director, reports Radio World.

Congressmen from Hawaii have asked the FCC to expedite approval of a Hawaii Public Radio transmitter that would serve Maui, reports Pacific Business News.

“Focus requires discipline and, in this case, a painful choice.” The New York Times is restructuring its TV unit and shuttering its production facility ...

Two keynote speeches from a recent production workshop held by American Public Media’s Classical Music Initiative are online.

NPR has hired David Folkenflik, media reporter at the Baltimore Sun, reports the Baltimore Business Journal (second item). (More in the Baltimore City Paper. Via Romenesko).

This winter, director Robert Altman will begin shooting a film version of A Prairie Home Companion, reports the St. Paul Pioneer Press. (Reg. req.) More in ...