Public Radio International named Senior Vice President Alisa Miller director of corporate strategy and management.

More on the FCC’s digital radio decision: NPR’s statement, coverage in Radio World and The New York Times, and the FCC’s release and statements are on its website.

NPR hired Michele Norris, a correspondent for ABC’s World News Tonight, as co-host of All Things Considered. And it also appointed its own Steve Inskeep to host ATC on weekends.

The Los Angeles Times reports on the KOCE-TV Foundation’s bid to buy the license of the Huntington Beach public TV station and fund its digital conversion.

This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell talks with the Philadelphia City Paper.

The FCC has approved the in-band, on-channel technology for digital terrestrial radio.

NPR is cutting nine staffers due to “flat to declining revenues,” reports The Washington Post.

The FCC is expected to declare iBiquity Corp.’s in-band, on-channel digital radio technology the national standard tomorrow. The Washington Post offers a preview.

A new study by Fairness and Accuracy in Media says seven major-market public radio stations sound, on average, twice as white as the communities they serve, due to a lack of diversity among daytime hosts.

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters’ website looks nifty with a new design.

NPR’s Morning Edition has commissioned its first radio play, a “zany comedy” by a Hollywood screenwriter, reports The Washington Post.

Faith Middleton, host of Connecticut Public Radio’s Faith Middleton Show, was to celebrate her relationship with Fern Berman Sunday with a commitment ceremony, as noted by The New York Times.

The New York Daily News checks in with Cokie Roberts, who is receiving chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer.

The Washington Post previews an upcoming film about Stephen Glass, the journalist who famously fabricated stories he filed for various outlets, including public radio’s This American Life. So who plays Ira Glass?

It was almost a landmark case: NPR vs. The World’s Most Downloaded Woman. The woman is Danni Ashe, a web-porn entrepreneur whom public TV viewers might remember from Frontline‘s “American Porn” documentary. Her image has been downloaded from her subscription website over 1 billion times, earning her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Her expertise on matters pornographic recently landed her in a Slate article, which let drop that callers to her Los Angeles office who get put on hold hear KCRW, a local NPR affiliate. Apparently Ashe and her pinup models are bigtime fans of the station.