A video diary by Columbia University sophomore Cecilia Garza “offers an unusual, deeply honest story of one rural Latina’s struggles in the big city,” reports the New York Times. The diary is one of three featured on Borders, a 10-week, web-only series by P.O.V.

Chicago’s WBEZ angered peace activists when it rejected an underwriting spot that included information about a “community forum and peace vigil proclaiming a moral voice against war with Iraq,” reports the Chicago Reader. Station management said it’s “improper to accept money to push for causes.”

Unlike many of her fellow journalists, Diane Rehm has a sparkling record at the ballot box, reports The Washingtonian.

NPR’s Scott Simon told the Yale Daily News he will dance in The Nutcracker in December with the Austin Ballet, complete with tutu.

New at Hearing Voices: photos, stories and audio from writer/producer Nancy Updike’s trip to the West Bank.

Smaller noncommercial broadcasters reject digital radio as “another business that supports the status quo,” reports Wired.

The FCC has approved the front-running technology for digital radio, known as IBOC, but it dismissed or delayed action on several concerns raised by pubcasters.

Zwerdling hopes his bosses will reverse their decision to end his job — and so do dozens of colleagues.

On Weekend Edition Saturday, Scott Simon interviews Nic Harcourt, host of KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. Live performances from the show are compiled on a new album, Sounds Eclectic Too.

Columnist Michelle Malkin is unsympathetic to pubradio translators knocked off the air by expanding religiocasters. “It’s time for the secular hogs of the public airwaves to stop squealing,” she writes in the Philadelphia Daily News.

Electronic Media lists PBS President Pat Mitchell among the “most powerful women in television.” Among the 26 are Judith McHale, c.o.o. of Discovery Communications, numerous other chief execs, and Oprah Winfrey.

Aileen LeBlanc is leaving WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she has been news director since 1999. LeBlanc told the Dayton Daily News she’s leaving over “irreconcilable differences with WYSO management.”

The FCC’s Report and Order regarding digital radio is up on its website.

PBS lucks out with a major Jimmy Carter profile ready for broadcast on American Experience, Nov. 11-12, just a month after he won the Nobel Peace Prize. (Or was it planning!?)

Frontline producer Sherry Jones discussed last night’s “Missile Wars” program at washingtonpost.com.