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“The Pub” Podcast

Our biweekly podcast of interviews with public media’s most important and interesting thinkers and doers. Subscribe with our Libsyn feed or through iTunes and follow The Pub on Twitter.

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‘The Pub’ #71: Lessons from KUOW’s abortive purchase of KPLU

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | July 22, 2016

Other stations can learn from KPLU’s shockingly successful bid for independence.

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‘The Pub’ #70: A reporter’s guide to getting arrested

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | July 15, 2016

WWNO reporter Ryan Kailath shares lessons he learned the hard way.

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‘The Pub’ #69: Code Switch chief Alicia Montgomery

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | July 1, 2016

Montgomery talks about the long-anticipated new Code Switch podcast and responds to criticisms of her unit from both the right and left.

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‘The Pub’ #68: Betcha can’t fix this script!

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | June 25, 2016

Editors play our game live at the Public Radio News Directors Inc. conference in St. Louis.

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‘The Pub’ #67: Rebecca Lavoie — public broadcaster, private podcaster

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | June 10, 2016

If you work at a station and you create a new show, does your station necessarily own it?

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‘The Pub’ #66: Newsbusters editor Tim Graham on NPR, Ploughshares and why conservatives feel left out of public media

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | May 27, 2016

Graham’s organization jumped on an ethically sticky funding situation at NPR.

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‘The Pub’ #65: Where the bleeps and bloops come from, live at The Greene Space

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | May 20, 2016

If you’ve ever heard some digital slurp, bloop or BOOM in a radio story and thought “How’d they make that?”, listen to this episode of The Pub to find out.

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‘The Pub’ #64: Five things bad interviewers do, with Celeste Headlee

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | May 13, 2016

Your interviewing skills may need help, and Headlee is here to assist you.

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‘The Pub’ #63: The ethics of foundation-supported journalism

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | April 29, 2016

Are journalists allowing themselves to be the instruments of policy advocacy?

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‘The Pub’ #62: Jay Rosen on his love-hate relationship with public media

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | April 22, 2016

Rosen is frustrated by how often reporters seem to cover controversies without trying to discover which side is right.

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‘The Pub’ #61: The case for PBS stations in a post-TV world

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | April 15, 2016

What’s the point of local TV stations when viewers can — and increasingly do — watch national programming online?

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‘The Pub’ #60: Adam hangs out with radio nerds

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | April 1, 2016

A wide-ranging discussion of podcasting from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Atlanta.

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‘The Pub’ #59: The case for NPR stations in a post-radio world

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | March 25, 2016

How do NPR and stations maintain a mutually beneficial coexistence?

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‘The Pub’ #58: Glenn Greenwald wants NPR journalists ‘to speak like a normal human being’

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | March 18, 2016

Greenwald argues that NPR’s impartiality standards are needless at best and dangerous at worst.

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‘The Pub’ #57: Music Rights 101 with The Current’s Leah Garaas

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | March 4, 2016

If you think music rights are a simple matter, you’re probably doing it wrong.

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‘The Pub’ #56: Mark Stencel on how public media can corner the fact-checking market

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | February 26, 2016

A practical guide on how, when and what to fact-check, and what to do when your fact-checks are inevitably challenged.

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‘The Pub’ #55: Diane Rehm contemplates the end

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | February 19, 2016

With her retirement ahead, the longtime host discusses who might replace her in the host chair and her feelings about head-to-head competitor Tom Ashbrook.