In a post on his website, actor Harry Shearer describes how he learned about the cancellation of his long-running show on KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif. On Monday, KCRW General Manager Jennifer Ferro told Shearer that “Le Show was being cancelled from the airwaves.” Shearer had suspected that Ferro was preparing to end the weekly program’s run on KCRW, but he was surprised by the timing, which was “‘effective immediately,’” he wrote, quoting Ferro. “Thus does public radio, in one more small way, come to resemble ever more closely commercial radio’s way of doing business,” Shearer commented. The station announced the cancellation April 15 as part of an overhaul of its weekend schedule.

The Texas Tribune, the nonprofit public policy journalism website that recently received a $1.5 million Knight Foundation grant, is the subject of an extensive piece published April 15 in the Columbia Journalism Review.

Tonight’s special edition of Greater Boston from WGBH, focused on the shocking bomb blasts at Monday’s Boston Marathon, will be distributed nationally on the World Channel, the public TV multicast service produced by WGBH and distributed by American Public Television. WGBH spokesman Michael Raia told Current the 30-minute show will extend to an hour and begin airing at 9 p.m. Eastern time on World. In Boston, the show will be broadcast on WGBH’s primary TV station at 7 p.m., its regular timeslot. Planned guests include terrorism expert Jim Walsh, a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program; Jarrett Barrios of the Red Cross, who took part in the race; and Haider Javed Warraich, a resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who wrote an op-ed in today’s New York Times about his experience growing up amid explosions in Pakistan.

Late at night on April 15, NPR.org and several NPR-affiliated Twitter feeds were hacked into by an online Syrian counter-revolutionary movement, which vandalized the homepage and posted fake articles in protest of the network’s ongoing coverage of the Syrian civil war.

Attorneys for Iowa Public Radio are negotiating a settlement with fired C.E.O. Mary Grace Herrington, the Des Moines Register reports. Herrington was terminated in February by the station’s board in a closed meeting. IPR is at risk of being sued because the board publicly discussed personnel matters after it voted to terminate Herrington’s employment, board Chairwoman Kay Runge said.

InsideClimate News, the Brooklyn-based nonprofit environmental journalism outlet, won a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. The award was announced by the Pulitzer Committee April 15.

WESAT from the new NPR headquarters, a set on Flickr. Current was on hand April 13 when Weekend Edition Saturday launched the first broadcast from NPR’s new $201 million headquarters on North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C. Click here to view as a slideshow.

The Texas Tribune, an online news nonprofit that produces in-depth stories about Texas government and policy, received $1.5 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation April 14 to explore new revenue models for local journalism.

The story of how Monty Python’s Flying Circus star John Cleese became a pitchman for Milwaukee Public Television’s Great TV Auction dates to 1987 and “has as many curves as the Monaco Grand Prix,” writes Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TV/radio columnist Duane Dudek. You can listen to Cleese’s two 60-second radio spots here. The auction runs April 26 through May 4 and is the largest pubcasting event of its kind in nation, raising more than $1 million annually.