Tag: NPR
Friday roundup: This American Doodle, troubles at KCETLink
• Nothing spells love quite like This American Life. For a Valentine’s Day Doodle, Google has enlisted the Public Radio International program to present five ...Afternoon roundup: Slate snaps up NPR’s Pesca; nonprofits join push to block KMBH sale
• NPR sports reporter Mike Pesca is leaving the network to host a daily current-events podcast for Slate, Business Insider reports. The show will begin this ...Afternoon roundup: Ombud complaints down, filmmaker knocks WETA
• In his annual review of objectivity and balance in CPB-funded programming, CPB Ombudsman Joel Kaplan noted “far fewer complaints directed at public ...NPR’s Chow leaves for FiveThirtyEight, Bross for The Atlantic
Two NPR staffers are leaving public broadcasting for prominent positions with other media outlets. Lisa Chow, a reporter for NPR’s Planet Money ...On the clock: Stations lobby NPR for changes to timing of newsmags
Public radio leaders are discussing how and whether NPR can give stations more freedom to reuse its newsmagazine segments and more opportunities ...NPR names new v.p. for member partnership
NPR has promoted Gemma Hooley to v.p. for member partnership, succeeding Joyce MacDonald, who has been assigned new responsibilities in sponsorship and ...NPR’s Scott Simon to host second pilot of Wonderful Town variety show
NPR is mounting a second pilot performance of Scott Simon’s Wonderful Town, a variety show featuring the Weekend Edition Saturday host. The live taping will take place Jan. 22 at ...New partnership fuels Al Letson’s collaborative work on State of the Re:Union
Letson, the performance artist and playwright behind SOTRU, begins 2014 with a new production partner, renewed funding and ambitions to take his show ...NPRchives project revisits sounds of 1984
NPR is dipping into its vaults for a new social media project that highlights reports from its archives.Chevy’s upcoming in-dash app selection to include NPR
General Motors announced Monday that the NPR News app will be featured in the inaugural suite of in-car apps the automaker has ...PMP ‘ark’ prepares to board; partners ready first deployments
As the Public Media Platform prepares for its phased rollout across the system in January, Executive Director Kristen Calhoun is seeking opportunities ...NPR talent leader Schmidt leaves to start recruiting company
Lars Schmidt, the senior director of talent acquisition and innovation at NPR, is leaving his position to form his own company, he ...Flatow finds more traction for ‘Science Friday’ in PRI distribution
After two decades as a weekly NPR program, the 22-year-old Science Friday is preparing to shake things up. With its move to Public Radio ...Grants, donations to NPR support expanded reporting, app for personalized listening
NPR has lined up $17 million in grants and individual gifts to expand two beat-reporting units and to complete development of an ...Dotcom entrepreneur invests $250K in Swell app
Jason Calacanis is betting big on Swell, the five-month-old app that curates podcasts and news reports. The angel investor, who co-founded the ...
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