System/Policy
Deep chat: ‘Kudos to NPR for the 11 percent. My focus is serving the other 89 percent’
For more than 20 years, public radio has followed a winning formula that is often summarized as “super-serve the core.” That is, ...Editorial integrity panel says the time’s right to think about principles
Now might not seem like the best time for the public broadcasting system to be pondering philosophical questions of identity and purpose, ...The right jabs public radio with video sting using NPR fundraiser’s words
Neither Ron Schiller nor Betsy Liley had eaten before at Café Milano, the upscale see-and-be-seen restaurant in Georgetown, before Feb. 22, when ...House bill saves no money but fights ‘liberal’ bogeyman
After a nearly two-hour battle pitting fiscal conservatism against the value of publicly funded media, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a ...DISARRAY: Takedown leaves gaps in network’s top ranks
NPR is facing the most serious political crisis in its history with no chief executive to speak for it, no chief fundraiser ...NPR loses c.e.o., its third exec swept away by political tornado
One day after denouncing her top fundraiser and nine weeks after asking her news chief to resign, NPR President Vivian Schiller stepped ...Are we here for 11% of the public or for all of it?
Usually the only speakers in the “public comment” period after an NPR Board meeting are several regional reps of stations, but they were ...Economic crisis may force cuts in aid to pubcasting
“At this point, any and all funding for public broadcasting is at risk,” the Association for Public Television Stations said.House vote would axe CPB in 2013
Last time, in 2005, the emissary to Congress was Clifford the Big Red Dog. This time, it’s an aardvark named Arthur. Last ...With $6.75 million purchases, WNKU triples its reach
The station is buying two country-music outlets in southern Ohio.In Pittsburgh, a broker turns operator
News/jazz WDUQ-FM will be sold to a joint partnership between another Pittsburgh pubradio station, WYEP, and a new local nonprofit established by ...For LPFMers, radio act brings ‘a ton of joy’
Low-power FM advocates are celebrating a hard-won victory with enactment of the Local Community Radio Act, approved in the last days of ...‘170 Million Americans’ drive begins to defend federal aid
The big audience statistic reveals for the first time a comprehensive estimate of public media users across all platforms.Fight over NPR funding: is it a “culture war,” or principled debate?
What’s really at stake in the battle over federal funding to NPR, and how can the field’s advocates make the best case ...NPR Board hires counsel to probe what went wrong
Reacting to NPR’s abrupt image makeover — from ascendant news organization to partisan punching bag — the network’s board last week hired ...
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