Recent shuffling of staff at Boston’s WBUR included halving the news staff at WRNI, its Rhode Island station, according to the Providence Phoenix.

New radio episodes of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series debut this month on BBC Radio 4. Meanwhile, production is underway ...

Westword looks at the competition KGNU could face in Denver from Air America, which Clear Channel is now piping into the city.

Garrison Keillor breathes fire in In These Times. “Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous,” he ...

NPR’s coverage of the lead-up to the Iraq war was mostly balanced, but Morning Edition interviews were soft and the domestic angle was neglected, ...

The anti-Kerry Swift Boat smear was “dishonest in the extreme,” writes journalism observer Jay Rosen, but the mainstream press is stunned to ...

With mainstream media folks tut-tutting about Fox and bloggers bringing viewpoint into news reporting, Poynter Institute’s Geneva Overholser, herself a mainstream journalist ...

A would-be broadcaster in Indiana is exploiting a little-used FCC rule in an effort to share airtime with unwilling educational stations, reports ...

CPB has brought back Peggy O’Brien as senior v.p., educational programming and services. In 1994-2000, she headed CPB’s earliest Ready to Learn ...

Members of Azerbaijan’s parliament and its national TV and radio council left last week to study public TV in the United States, Baku Today ...

The New York Times reports on the tensions stations feel about competing against NPR for major donors, and against satellite radio for listeners.

Clear Channel is distributing programming from liberal network Air America in five cities, reports the New York Times. Though public radio could lose listeners ...

In the Boston Globe‘s take on PBS’s Friday-night pundit zone, hard-core lefties and righties alike accuse pubTV of kissing up to Congress. PBS still ...

Forbes lists the salaries of some highly paid public TV execs. (Last item.)

CorpWatch.org reports the commercial TV networks have reduced convention coverage to about 18 hours this year, about 10 percent of its total ...