WFUV’s folkie listeners and the New York Botanical Garden’s orchid-lovers conflicted politely at yesterday’s FCC hearing in the Bronx, giving the New York ...

Responding to widespread criticism (see posts below), NPR revised its linking policy today. You no longer need to request permission to link ...

Charlie Rose had open-heart surgery June 25 to repair a faulty valve, reports USA Today. The talk-show host could be back to work within ...

With CPB money, WNET launches African American World, a website about the AfAm experience that isn’t an adjunct of any particular TV ...

Reacting to a Providence Journal editorial suggesting the merger of Rhode Island’s WSBE with Boston’s WGBH, Rhode Island pubcaster Susan Farmer says the Journal might ...

The Online Journalism Review joins in condemning NPR’s linking policy. Also, BoingBoinger Cory Doctorow and NPR ombud Jeffrey Dvorkin both appeared on Minnesota Public ...

Former U.S. Treasury Sec. Robert Rubin will be the first guest on MPT’s newly revamped Wall Street Week with Fortune, says the L.A. Times.

A Baltimore Sun article attempts to capture the frantic activity behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion.

The Associated Press profiles Tavis Smiley, host of a new show on NPR.

As Maryland PTV readies its new Wall Street Week for debut on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reports that former host Louis Rukeyser has taken three ...

TV critic Tom Shales refuses to donate “money to a ‘public’ TV that has been privatized within an inch of its life,” ...

After its “Stupid Pills” wear off, PBS moves Masterpiece Theatre back to Sunday nights, says Lisa de Moraes of the Washington Post.

Slate critic Virginia Heffernan on PBS’s animated Sagwa: “Surprisingly, Sagwa gets away with refinement and high-mindedness . . .”

AP trumpets Ken Burns’ new series of repeats on PBS Monday nights.

NPR will reconsider its linking policy in the wake of its widespread blogger-led condemnation.