Tag: NPR
Knell’s departure prolongs churn in NPR presidency
The unexpected departure of President Gary Knell puts NPR in the all-too-familiar situation of looking once more for a leader.Gary Knell leaving NPR to become CEO of National Geographic
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. NPR President Gary Knell has taken a new job as the chief executive ...NPR ombud sharply criticizes acclaimed 2011 investigative story
An award-winning 2011 NPR investigative series about Native American children in South Dakota’s foster-care system was seriously flawed and should not have ...NPR and Threadless launch T-shirt challenge
Threadless, a online company that sells T-shirts with designs voted on by users, is calling for artists to submit designs inspired by ...WBUR cites marathon reporting in endorsement of looser FCC indecency standards
Boston's WBUR joined NPR and other news outlets in advocating for more leniency when it comes to indecency standards, citing its reporting ...Arun Rath joins NPR as Weekend ATC host
Frontline and PRI’s The World reporter Arun Rath will join NPR in late September to host Weekend All Things Considered, which is relocating to NPR’s Los Angeles ...NPR, APM join forces with mobile app Swell
NPR and American Public Media are partnering with a new mobile app that curates talk radio and podcasts according to listener taste. ...NPR and WBUR partner in ‘Here & Now’ expansion
More than 100 public radio stations have picked up the midday NPR news show Here & Now with its expansion to two ...Online News Association moves into new NPR building
The Online News Association, a nonprofit resource and support group for digital journalists, moved its offices into NPR’s new Washington, D.C., headquarters ...Rep. Lamborn once again targets funding for NPR on Capitol Hill
Republican Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn today reintroduced legislation to kill federal funding for NPR. Its language is identical to his bill that ...NPR shake-ups: Wahl new Morning Edition e.p.; Stencel leaves to write book
NPR announced today that Tracy Wahl will become the new executive producer of Morning Edition.NPR, other noncoms push for laxer FCC indecency rules
NPR is advocating for the Federal Communications Commission to loosen its policies surrounding broadcast decency standards, and retreat from a “zero tolerances” ...NPR’s Rudin hopes to launch new show after leaving network
Shutdowns of a show and a reporting project at NPR have prompted the departure of “Political Junkie” Ken Rudin, who has worked ...Salt Lake City’s KCPW cites program costs, duplication in canceling NPR programs
Salt Lake City pubcaster Wasatch Public Media, licensee of KCPW-FM, will drop all NPR programs June 24, a schedule change intended to ...Public media leaders debate value of internships, paid and unpaid
As public and for-profit media companies come under new scrutiny for compensation of interns, public media executives debated how decisions to pay ...
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