Quick Takes

  • NPR’s decision to reassign Bob Edwards followed sound corporate strategy–and that’s a good thing, writes Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post. “If you don’t ...
  • Last week’s Frontline doc on President Bush’s born-again faith “appears to be a balanced look at the impact of faith on politics,” cautiously ...
  • Louis Rukeyser, longtime host of Wall Street programs on public TV, has taken leave from TV for health reasons, the Baltimore Sun reported. Doctors ...
  • Philadelphia’s WRTI-FM will use digital radio technology to offer two channels–full-time jazz and classical streams–on its one frequency. (PDF of a Philadelphia Inquirer article.)
  • More on Bob Edwards and his last day as host of Morning Edition, via Google News.
  • NPR has created a tribute page to Bob Edwards, who leaves Morning Edition today.
  • The Agriculture Department has named a second round of rural public TV stations awarded DTV conversion aid. Eighteen stations received $14 million, ...
  • In a Star Tribune op-ed, chairs of Minnesota Public Radio’s corporate boards explain and defend the network’s unorthodox use of funds from for-profit sister ...
  • In its early days, KQED was “boiling with ideas,” says an old timer in the San Francisco Chronicle‘s series marking the station’s 50th anniversary ...
  • It’s Bob Edwards’ final week on Morning Edition, and articles in Newsday and the Washington Post highlight the impending change. NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin addresses the persisting ...
  • In case you can’t remember what cicadas sound like, the University of Michigan offers audio files along with close-up photos and detailed ...
  • Not waiting until Morning Edition‘s 25th anniversary to reassign host Bob Edwards made NPR executives looked as if “we didn’t care about Bob,” says ...
  • A Japanese company will sponsor a British knight’s series on American innovators. WGBH says Olympus backed Sir Harold Evans’ They Made America, on PBS ...
  • Tom Silva of This Old House explains why America is losing its home-repair mojo in Boston Globe Magazine.
  • Some NPR listeners thought Don Gonyea, the network’s White House reporter, was rude to the President last week. Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin says ...