Quick Takes

  • Online petitioners are urging NPR to fire reporter Nancy Marshall after she reported that only 10,000 protestors marched against war in Iraq ...
  • “PBS president Pat Mitchell refuses to pledge allegiance to pledge drives” in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Gail Shister. This isn’t the first ...
  • A video diary by Columbia University sophomore Cecilia Garza “offers an unusual, deeply honest story of one rural Latina’s struggles in the ...
  • Chicago’s WBEZ angered peace activists when it rejected an underwriting spot that included information about a “community forum and peace vigil proclaiming ...
  • Unlike many of her fellow journalists, Diane Rehm has a sparkling record at the ballot box, reports The Washingtonian.
  • NPR’s Scott Simon told the Yale Daily News he will dance in The Nutcracker in December with the Austin Ballet, complete with ...
  • New at Hearing Voices: photos, stories and audio from writer/producer Nancy Updike’s trip to the West Bank.
  • Smaller noncommercial broadcasters reject digital radio as “another business that supports the status quo,” reports Wired.
  • On Weekend Edition Saturday, Scott Simon interviews Nic Harcourt, host of KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. Live performances from the show are compiled ...
  • Columnist Michelle Malkin is unsympathetic to pubradio translators knocked off the air by expanding religiocasters. “It’s time for the secular hogs of ...
  • Electronic Media lists PBS President Pat Mitchell among the “most powerful women in television.” Among the 26 are Judith McHale, c.o.o. of ...
  • Aileen LeBlanc is leaving WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she has been news director since 1999. LeBlanc told the Dayton Daily ...
  • The FCC’s Report and Order regarding digital radio is up on its website.
  • PBS lucks out with a major Jimmy Carter profile ready for broadcast on American Experience, Nov. 11-12, just a month after he ...
  • Frontline producer Sherry Jones discussed last night’s “Missile Wars” program at washingtonpost.com.