Quick Takes

  • “Unsettling hours about the airborne evils that Americans have been told to await”–“Dirty Bombs,” airing tonight on PBS’s Nova, and “Bioterror: The Invisible ...
  • “A woman whose first child was born nine months and five days after her wedding recalls that the realization of ‘how easy ...
  • WHYY in Philadelphia upped Terry Gross’s salary from the $85,000 she made in 2001, reports the Inquirer. The paper also reports what hosts ...
  • WDET-FM in Detroit stopped its Web audio stream today because of new limits on how Internet broadcasters can program music.
  • A live chat on eating disorders gets underway at 2 p.m. ET today at washingtonpost.com. Author Marya Hornbacher, whose book “Wasted” chronicles ...
  • “I was always attracted to this part of the world and wanted to make some contribution in trying to bring Israelis and ...
  • The Prometheus Radio Project has posted an information sheet about translators in advance of next month’s filing window at the FCC.
  • Paste magazine covers triple-A and Americana music, with some emphasis given to noncommercial triple-A stations. Their site now features a profile of eclectic ...
  • The FCC has overturned a $7,000 fine levied against Portland’s KBOO for airing the sexually explicit song “Your Revolution” by rap artist ...
  • The city council in Whitesburg, Ky., also declined to endorse an state funding application from the Appalshop community media center–but not because ...
  • Marketplace host David Brancaccio discusses his show’s raison d’etre with the Boston Globe. (Via Romenesko.)
  • PBS and MTV air programs tonight on the threat of war with Iraq, Frontline‘s “The War Behind Closed Doors” and an MTV news ...
  • Fast Company named Susan Clampitt, g.m. of WAMU in Washington, D.C., one of its “Fast 50.”
  • NPR’s Steve Inskeep is a finalist for the 2003 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Shorenstein Center. (Via Romenesko.)
  • Public radio stations in New Hampshire and Vermont expect the FCC will soon decide on their application for a jointly owned classical ...