Quick Takes

  • “I am not a well-read or a well-educated person,” WNYC’s Steve Post tells the New York Times. “But I have a deep ...
  • NPR’s Terry Gross is working with California-based producer Margaret Pick, formerly of A Prairie Home Companion, on a book that will compile transcripts of Fresh ...
  • You can hear samples from the new Public Radio Weekend service on the show’s website.
  • Also online from PRPD: the results of Walrus Research’s focus groups with classical music listeners.
  • Audience researcher David Giovannoni’s speech from last week’s Public Radio Program Directors’ conference is online.
  • NPR promoted New York Correspondent Melissa Block to co-host of All Things Considered with Robert Siegel, the Los Angeles Times reports.
  • The Washington Post profiles Diane Rehm and her husband, John, who have written a new book about their difficult 45-year marriage.
  • Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute praises the “gravitas” of NPR’s Sept. 11 coverage.
  • NPR’s “Present at the Creation” series gets some ink in a New York Times story about backward-looking arts coverage in the media.
  • If you watch just one show about the anniversary of Sept. 11, Frontline‘s “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero” ought to be it, ...
  • Currency, car air fresheners and gerbil shields: just some of the uses Car Talk listeners are suggesting for Tom and Ray’s hoard of yogurt ...
  • NPR commentator Cokie Roberts tells USA Today that she has received over 1,000 letters, mostly from strangers, since she told the media that she ...
  • Nearly all of the money released by Congress in fiscal year 2002 for public TV and radio’s digital conversion will go to ...
  • Visit the website of Nuevos Horizontes (New Horizons), a Spanish-language radio program from the University of Illinois.
  • Garrison Keillor gets a satiric makeover as “Harrison Taylor” in a mock interview for The Rake.