The Covenant with Black America, a book of essays edited by Tavis Smiley, has become a bestseller through radio, churches and word of mouth. “It’s selling so fast we can’t keep up with demand,” its publisher tells the Washington Post.

A Forrester Research survey found that only 1 percent of a group of web users regularly listened to podcasts, reports Adweek. (Via Technology360.)

Susan Stamberg offers Katie Couric ten tidbits of anchoring advice. No. 6: “Combing one’s hair was never a priority here, and I can’t see why it should be for you.”

NPR’s Juan Williams told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News that “these kids don’t know anything” in reference to Los Angeles students protesting immigration legislation, according to Media Matters.

McSweeney’s presents “A Rejected Submission to NPR’s ‘This I Believe.'” Money line: “But then you realize your bat does, in fact, suck.”

PBS’s winners in the 65th annual Peabody Awards include documentaries presented by American Experience, P.O.V. and American Masters. Also: the international co-productions of Bleak House, recently broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre, and a Nature film that debuts this Sunday.

The New York Times might sell its stake in the Discovery Times channel, a joint venture with Discovery Communications, the New York Observer reports. Web video will have a larger presence on the Times redesigned website, which debuted this week, and some within the paper are reportedly unsatisfied with the Discovery channel’s home in the cable “exurbs,” the Observer reports. “We have a position on the dial you couldn’t find with a Sherpa,” one Times staffer said.

Wired explores the podcasting predicament: Pubradio wants to embrace convenient new platforms, but will giving content away for free hurt the bottom line? “You can go around and say the sky is falling, or you can see [podcasts] as an opportunity,” says Ruth Seymour, g.m. of major podcaster KCRW. Another view: “All of the new delivery systems are great for the stations that produce the content. It’s not good for the local affiliate in Eau Claire, Wisconsin,” says consultant Paul Marszalek. “They’re really, really reliant on programs from elsewhere to draw listeners and members.” Marszalek previously urged pubradio to charge for its podcasts in a Current commentary.

Greg Guma, the new executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, reported to the network’s board last month about the big issues he’s been studying. Pacifica has also launched a new website, PacificaNetwork.org, a resource for staffers at Pacifica stations.

BJ Liederman, who composed the Morning Edition theme music, shares the little-known lyrics to the ditty.

Authorities in the Russian republic of Dagestan have been questioning Kelly McEvers, a public radio freelancer, and have asked her not to leave the region, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Garrison Keillor has contributed his voice to a British Honda ad.

“The radio station’s motto is ‘Because there’s always more to the story,'” writes the Washingtonian‘s Harry Jaffe about the new commercial news station, an extension of the Washington Post‘s print news, that’s competing with the city’s public radio stations. “But there’s not always that much more.”

FolkAlley from Ohio’s WKSU-FM, “unlike most digital stations, feels like radio — it has intelligent, welcoming DJs who clearly know and love the music,” writes the Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher. Fisher heard the service on a digital channel offered by Washington’s WAMU-FM.

NPR’s Brenda Wilson shared this remembrance of the late Kathy McAnally, a public radio freelancer who died March 24.