Quick Takes

  • Peter Sellars’ production of The Children of Herakles, covered in today’s New York Times, features contributions from public radio’s Christopher Lydon. Lydon is working on a ...
  • Vin Scelsa, pioneer of freeform radio and a host on public station WFUV in New York, is taking his show’s stream and ...
  • The Baltimore Sun profiles Murray Horwitz, formerly head of cultural programming at NPR and now in charge of the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre ...
  • WNYC-AM/FM in New York might be looking for a new home, reports the New York Daily News.
  • Fort Collins, Colo., will get a new community radio station this year, but KRFC is still looking for a studio and a ...
  • The New York Times profiles comic Harry Shearer and his public radio program “Le Show,” produced at KCRW in Santa Monica. Says KCRW General ...
  • The MacArthur Foundation gave NPR a $14 million grant, the largest in the network’s history.
  • The Virginia Public Broadcasting Board imposed 15 percent across-the-board funding cuts to the state’s public TV stations, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
  • The New York Times starts a series of three reports today on the toll of unsafe working conditions at McWane Inc., a U.S. manufacturer ...
  • WTTW drops its biweekly newspaper City Talk and cuts 23 jobs, reports the Chicago Tribune.
  • The latest Eastern Public Radio Newsletter is online.
  • The Association of Independents in Radio has started a series of live chats with producers and other folks in radio. The next ...
  • Media watchdog Norman Solomon gives NPR and Cokie Roberts “P.U.-litzer Prizes” for misreporting in 2002.
  • NPR Intern Tells All! Well, some. The Washington Monthly‘s Brian Montopoli scrutinizes the fustiness he hears in NPR’s “boomer-friendly” tone.
  • Knowing Poe, a new educational website produced by Maryland Public Television, features 10 interactive activities on the life and literature of Edgar Allan Poe. ...