Quick Takes

  • Borders, a web-only series from P.O.V., features an interactive drama about three young adults from the U.S.-Mexican border.
  • Public Radio International named Senior Vice President Alisa Miller director of corporate strategy and management.
  • More on the FCC’s digital radio decision: NPR’s statement, coverage in Radio World and The New York Times, and the FCC’s release ...
  • NPR hired Michele Norris, a correspondent for ABC’s World News Tonight, as co-host of All Things Considered. And it also appointed its ...
  • The Los Angeles Times reports on the KOCE-TV Foundation’s bid to buy the license of the Huntington Beach public TV station and fund its ...
  • This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell talks with the Philadelphia City Paper.
  • The FCC has approved the in-band, on-channel technology for digital terrestrial radio.
  • NPR is cutting nine staffers due to “flat to declining revenues,” reports The Washington Post.
  • The FCC is expected to declare iBiquity Corp.’s in-band, on-channel digital radio technology the national standard tomorrow. The Washington Post offers a ...
  • A new study by Fairness and Accuracy in Media says seven major-market public radio stations sound, on average, twice as white as ...
  • The National Federation of Community Broadcasters’ website looks nifty with a new design.
  • NPR’s Morning Edition has commissioned its first radio play, a “zany comedy” by a Hollywood screenwriter, reports The Washington Post.
  • Faith Middleton, host of Connecticut Public Radio’s Faith Middleton Show, was to celebrate her relationship with Fern Berman Sunday with a commitment ...
  • The New York Daily News checks in with Cokie Roberts, who is receiving chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer.
  • The Washington Post previews an upcoming film about Stephen Glass, the journalist who famously fabricated stories he filed for various outlets, including ...