Quick Takes

  • Maria Martin, executive producer of public radio’s Latino USA, is leaving the show as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. She says she’s leaving to ...
  • The MITRE Corp. has released its study of whether low-power FM stations can operate on third-adjacent channels to full-power stations. The Prometheus ...
  • San Francisco Chronicle critic Tim Goodman has some scathing words for PBS, which he says is “hopelessly broken.” President Pat Mitchell and her programmers ...
  • The Association of Independents in Radio has published an online version of its newsletter, Airspace–and this one is devoted exclusively to independent producing ...
  • The executive director of Pacifica says the network’s move back to Berkeley is “symbolic of Pacifica returning to its roots, returning to ...
  • Execs at San Francisco’s KQED are looking for ways to reduce expenses and may cut up to 40 jobs, reports the Contra Costa Times. ...
  • The press fails when it allows “the principle of objectivity to make us passive recipients of news, rather than aggressive analyzers and ...
  • The BBC is embroiled in “unusually nasty and high-stakes clashes” over its news coverage with political leaders in two countries–British Prime Minister ...
  • NPR’s political coverage should include more than just the Democratic front-runners, even third-party candidates such as Lyndon LaRouche, argues network ombud Jeffrey ...
  • Media Life ranked public radio’s Marketplace among its “Best of the Best.”
  • JJ Sutherland, creator of NPR’s upcoming midday newsmag Day to Day, discusses the show’s development at Transom.org.
  • KUSC-FM in Los Angeles has outsourced its underwriting sales to media behemoth Clear Channel, reports the Los Angeles Times.
  • Chicago Tribune critic Steve Johnson looks at what one year of competition from Louis Rukeyser on CNBC has done for Wall Street Week with Fortune and ...
  • Criticism of NPR’s partnership with Slate “sort of infuriated” staffers at the online mag, says editor Jacob Weisberg in Online Journalism Review.
  • Local people have organized a nonprofit to keep a public TV production facility going in Green Bay, Wis., after Wisconsin PTV closes ...