Quick Takes

  • Common Cause picked up on today’s New Yorker article (see below), charging that CPB is now acting as “the agent of ideological interference” instead ...
  • A Philadelphia Inquirer columnist vents her frustration with the BBC Newshour, which some public radio stations carry. (Via Romenesko. Reg. req. Bugmenot.com is a useful tool ...
  • The right wing has stopped trying to kill PBS and is now seeking a larger voice in shaping it, writes media chronicler ...
  • First Broadcasting, a commercial radio group, is petitioning the FCC to change its procedures for licensing stations. Some of the changes, if ...
  • PBS President Pat Mitchell is one of three candidates for chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America named in a New York Times ...
  • Lori Robertson of American Journalism Review chews over threats to depth and innovation at NPR News as the network adds hours of news programming ...
  • After a year of operating a transmitter in Sacramento, San Francisco’s KQED has a weekly cume of just 19,000, while the local ...
  • Sounds like the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary is now in beta release, for pubcasters who want to try digital asset management. [Text ...
  • Does NPR have a liberal bias? Hardly, according to lefty media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. In its study of ...
  • “I intend to become much more of an advocate for public broadcasting than when I am on the air and seem to ...
  • Bob Edwards, back in D.C. in a break from his book tour, said NPR bosses didn’t give him the option of co-hosting ...
  • In the New York Daily News, WNYC talk show host Brian Lehrer relates a tale of being abruptly cut off during an interview with Meet ...
  • Continuing her 70-city tour, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman explained in a Washington Post online chat why she recently interviewed sources familiar with the Palestinian refugees’ ...
  • Bill McGinley, g.m. of WOI Radio in Ames, Iowa, tells the Ames Tribune that Iowa is nearing the point at which a statewide public ...
  • The Washington Post profiles Transom.org, which recently became the first stand-alone website to win a Peabody.