“We’re always up front with the fact that this is advocacy journalism,” says a producer at WPKN in Bridgeport, Conn., a community radio station profiled in the Hartford Courant.

NPR named Walt Swanston director of diversity management and Michael Riksen v.p. of national affairs.

Nielsen Media Research announced plans to expand its use of people meters, a change likely to boost cable ratings, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“Unsettling hours about the airborne evils that Americans have been told to await”–“Dirty Bombs,” airing tonight on PBS’s Nova, and “Bioterror: The Invisible Enemy,” debuting tomorrow on the Discovery Channel. The New York Times reviewer says both offer “dreadful insights and fodder for fear.”

“A woman whose first child was born nine months and five days after her wedding recalls that the realization of ‘how easy it was to get pregnant’ was quickly followed by panic.” The New York Times reviews “The Pill,” airing tonight on PBS’s American Experience.

WHYY in Philadelphia upped Terry Gross’s salary from the $85,000 she made in 2001, reports the Inquirer. The paper also reports what hosts including Bob Edwards and David Brancaccio pulled in.

WDET-FM in Detroit stopped its Web audio stream today because of new limits on how Internet broadcasters can program music.

A live chat on eating disorders gets underway at 2 p.m. ET today at washingtonpost.com. Author Marya Hornbacher, whose book “Wasted” chronicles her struggle with anorexia and bulimia, participates in the chat. She is one of several young women profiled in “Perfect Illusions: Eating Disorders and the Family,” a documentary airing tonight on many PBS stations.

“I was always attracted to this part of the world and wanted to make some contribution in trying to bring Israelis and Palestinians closer together,”says NPR Middle East correspondent Linda Gradstein in a Los Angeles Times profile. (Via Romenesko.)

The Prometheus Radio Project has posted an information sheet about translators in advance of next month’s filing window at the FCC.

A manager in ethical hot water can be compared to a frog in a soup pot, says Carter McNamara. If you put a frog in a pot of hot water, it will immediately jump out, McNamara writes in The Complete Guide to Ethics Management: An Ethics Toolkit for Managers. But if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and very gradually increase the heat of the burner, you can boil the frog before it knows what’s up. The point here is that most ethical problems are created not by management mischief but by poor decisions made by managers under stress.

Paste magazine covers triple-A and Americana music, with some emphasis given to noncommercial triple-A stations. Their site now features a profile of eclectic KEXP in Seattle.

The FCC has overturned a $7,000 fine levied against Portland’s KBOO for airing the sexually explicit song “Your Revolution” by rap artist Sarah Jones (FCC’s ruling in PDF).

The city council in Whitesburg, Ky., also declined to endorse an state funding application from the Appalshop community media center–but not because of any alleged anti-Americanism. (See below.)

Marketplace host David Brancaccio discusses his show’s raison d’etre with the Boston Globe. (Via Romenesko.)