Quick Takes

  • The Miami Herald has agreed to produce news segments for the city’s WLRN-FM, reports the Herald.
  • “What he reminds me of is that quirky, kind of odd friend you had in high school but never wanted to admit ...
  • Police arrested Minnesota Public Radio talk show host Katherine Lanpher April 12 on suspicion of drunken driving and leaving the scene of ...
  • The FCC has given public TV stations an extra six months to simulcast half of their analog programming on their digital channels. ...
  • Tom Shales blasts commercial coverage of the Iraqi war while praising PBS’s Bill Moyers and NPR’s Bob Edwards in his TelevisionWeek column.
  • Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen talks with The Rake. “[W]hen I hear Ira Glass at public radio conventions sort of light into the audience saying, ‘You’ve ...
  • NPR’s Carl Kasell will marry psychotherapist Mary Ann Foster May 24, reports the Washington Post. Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! host Peter Sagal ...
  • NPR’s Anne Garrels tells colleague Susan Stamberg that, after Iraq, she might not cover another war. “I can’t do it to my ...
  • Amy Goodman in Newsday on her work as host of Democracy Now!: “I have what most journalists look for — independence.”
  • NPR’s Bob Edwards shared some forthright opinions with a Kentucky audience earlier this month. “The rise of cable TV and the Internet ...
  • All Things Considered host Michele Norris tells Journalismjobs.com that producing the show each day “is a miracle on the order of loaves and fishes.”
  • NPR’s Steve Inskeep tells The Washington Post Magazine about his experiences covering war. “I miss going to Fresh Fields and buying cat food,” he ...
  • WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill and a local group of critics recently met to discuss the station’s news fare, which came under fire ...
  • Burnie Clark, president of Seattle’s KCTS for 16 years, resigned abruptly Thursday, before publication of a Seattle Times series on problems at the station. ...
  • The Poynter Institute profiles Michele Norris, new host of NPR’s All Things Considered.