Tag: Journalism
Not-too-strange new bedfellows: print refugees
Groundbreaking collaborations are beginning to surface as public broadcasting stations partner with laid-off print journalists to bolster multiplatform local and regional reporting.Car bomb attack thwarted: ‘We made it out, and we’re alive’
"Being in Baghdad is a narrow escape every day,” says Loren Jenkins, NPR foreign editor, reflecting on the dangers surrounding the network’s ...Schiller hit ‘every point’ on NPR’s c.e.o. wish list
NPR’s next president made one giant leap in the news business two years ago when she moved from long-form documentary production into ...What can come of NPR’s release of an API giving access to its story database?
Posted in Current‘s former online forum, DirectCurrent, by moderator Steve Behrens on July 17, 2008 at 12:28pm Last year, public radio’s Digital Distribution ...50 miles from epicenter
It was purely by chance that a team of veteran NPR journalists was working in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, ...Stern lost support in his tryout as No. 1 at NPR
There was no single reason why the NPR Board ended Ken Stern’s 18-month run as chief executive officer — or at least ...We’re deep into news — let’s walk that walk
"Let’s face it," writes a prominent pubradio station news director, "despite 40 years of evolution, we have produced a lot of journalism, ...PBS ombud: Airing Perle film an “abdication of journalistic principle”
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler thought several of the America at a Crossroads films were excellent and described one in particular, Operation Homecoming: ...Weiss makes v.p. with endorsement of NPR newsroom
Ellen Weiss, an award-winning producer and editor in NPR’s news division over 25 years, will become its leader, the network announced last ...Paths to pubradio stardom: drifting, struggling and on a beeline
Lisa A. Phillips has just started appearing in bookstores to promote her newly published Public Radio Behind the Voices (CDS Books, 334 pages), which ...Orozco gives small station big-league news presence
Lance Orozco is one of Southern California’s most honored and recognized journalists. Yet he doesn’t work for the Los Angeles Times or a commercial ...Doc-makers get specific about copyright fair use
Friday afternoon, things changed for producers who need to use somebody else’s footage and music in their documentaries. Clearing rights may still ...New ombud office met with smiles and suspicion
Are CPB’s new ombudsmen promoters of healthy journalistic discussion or unwelcome monitors now peering over reporters’ shoulders? It depends whom you ask. As ...Lehrer expects to feel some heat: ‘What we’re doing is kitchen work’
Jim Lehrer, co-founder and host of PBS’s NewsHour, spoke April 12, 2005, at the PBS Showcase meeting in Las Vegas, where he accepted ...Is Bill Moyers the last of a breed or was he the first?
When Bill Moyers signs off after the Dec. 17 [2004] broadcast of Now with Bill Moyers, he will leave behind one of the longest ...
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