Quick Takes

  • Hiring former Baltimore Sun editor Bill Marimow as a managing editor will help NPR do “the kind of reporting that sets the agenda, gets ...
  • Since CBS aired Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain show in 1967 “no one, not even public television, has put the performance on the ...
  • NPR hired William K. Marimow as an additional managing editor, a new position. Marimow edited the Baltimore Sun until January, when the paper’s publisher ...
  • James Randi, the magician and debunker of paranormal hoaxes, observes on his website that public TV stations “are featuring both Dr. Wayne ...
  • Leslie Cagan, former chair of Pacifica’s interim national board, urged an audience at a March 12 meeting to abandon “the ugly and ...
  • Peter Troxell, former g.m. of KUSP-FM in Santa Cruz, Calif., died of cancer March 17. His son kept a moving weblog about ...
  • The Associated Press looks at competition between public radio and religious broadcasters for spectrum, with a recent Marylan dispute as an example.
  • APTS goes public with a release about its digital-only proposal, suggesting that public TV could relinquish analog channels ahead of time in ...
  • National Journal‘s William Powers devotes a column to Brian Lamb’s C-SPAN, the media wallflower now celebrating its 25th anniversary. He describes C-SPAN’s singular ability ...
  • Former PBS and CPB programmer Jennifer Lawson will head Howard University’s WHUT in Washington, D.C., the Washington Post reported. The station, which has long ...
  • NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin revisits Sandra Tsing Loh’s cancellation, urging his network to cover the story: “Public radio in general — and ...
  • Dan Reed, p.d. at WFPK-FM in Louisville, Ky., will move to the same job at WTMD-FM in Towson, Md., reports the Louisville Eccentric Observer.
  • More coverage of the Loh flap from the Los Angeles Times (reg. req.), Time (in a column by Loh herself) and Google News.
  • Chuck Niles, a renowned Los Angeles jazz deejay who called KKJZ-FM home since 1990, died yesterday at the age of 76, reports ...
  • Ruth Seymour, KCRW g.m., admitted fault today and invited Sandra Tsing Loh to return to the air, but Loh declined.