Quick Takes

  • The Village Voice reports that a subcontractor to McWane Corporation, the subject of a major investigative reporting series last year by the New York Times, Frontline ...
  • Helen Mirren talks with the New York Times about getting naked on screen.
  • NPR acknowledges in the Washington Post that it’s polling listeners about whether Bob Edwards’ departure from Morning Edition will affect their tuning in.
  • A telemarketing call goes awry for WVIZ.
  • Ira Glass toiled at humdrum radio stories for eight years before he showed any sign of developing a unique voice, he tells ...
  • An aggressive ad campaign touts WEIU, a tiny public TV station in eastern Illinois, as “your new choice for PBS.” The slogan ...
  • The PBS broadcast of Shroud of Christ?, presented April 7 on Secrets of the Dead, has drawn complaints from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of ...
  • The Washington Post tries adding some perspective to the reassignment of Bob Edwards, but makes little progress in untangling the PR web behind it. ...
  • Was Emma Goldman a fraud, a killer or a real revolutionary? PBS viewers won’t find the answer in tonight’s American Experience, writes a New York Times ...
  • Louis Schwartz, an attorney active in public broadcasting for three decades and a partner in Schwartz, Woods & Miller, died March 31. ...
  • WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., has received the largest donation in its history, a $250,000 bequest from late journalist and communications professional Ellen ...
  • An editorial cartoonist imagines mornings without Bob.
  • New BBC Chairman Michael Grade doesn’t have an easy choice of a man to fill the director general post, reports David Cox ...
  • The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that an anonymous “friend” of KCTS is lending the station $7 million to pay off its creditors, including PBS.
  • Listeners remain steamed about losing Bob Edwards, says NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin, and NPR has erred by not reporting more extensively on ...