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  • The Washington Post profiles Transom.org, which recently became the first stand-alone website to win a Peabody.
  • “Real diversity. Real public television” is the slogan for Philadelphia’s maverick public TV station WYBE, and the phrase could be a prĂ©cis of General Manager Sherri Hope Culver’s article in Television Quarterly, posted on the station’s site. (Beware — it’s a long PDF download.) Not a member of PBS, the station specializes in underserved minorities and is guided in part by 12 ethnic councils.
  • The New York Times reports on newlyweds who met through a fund drive on WAMC-FM in Albany.
  • Minnesota Public Radio violated its conflict-of-interest policy when it bought a mansion to resell earlier this year, reports the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
  • Democracy Now! host and touring author Amy Goodwin criticizes mainstream media’s “access of evil” in this Newsweek Q-and-A. (via msnbc.com)
  • “Does anyone in public TV realize that people have lives?” Kansas City Star critic Aaron Barnhart faults PBS’s scheduling of Colonial House as a marathon viewing experience.
  • The New York Times reports on WFUV’s plans for a new radio tower.
  • A Boston Globe article places Ira Glass among a throng of semiotics grads from Brown University that, “if they don’t exactly dominate the cultural mainstream, certainly have grown famous sparring with it.” Via randomWalks.
  • NPR’s Tavis Smiley appears tonight as a “Power Player” on Jeopardy.
  • Morning Edition without Bob Edwards will succeed by featuring energetic hosts and “fewer interviews with novelists,” among other changes, predicts commercial broadcaster Randall Bloomquist in the Wall Street Journal.
  • WFUV-FM in New York has at long last found a site for its broadcast tower, ending a decade-long struggle with the New York Botanical Garden.
  • Early commenters to the FCC raise concerns about supplemental audio channels and other issues, reports Radio Magazine.
  • Gerald Slavet, creator of PRI’s From the Top, won the company’s 2004 Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. And NPR gave its first-ever Public Radio Leadership Award to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).
  • Bob Edwards tells the Seattle Post-Intelligencer his next book might be an autobiography. “The audience is writing it for me,” he says. “You should see the e-mails.”
  • Native producer Peggy Berryhill discussed new media’s effect on Native stations and many other topics in a recent chat on AIR’s website.