Tag: NPR
NPR deal will help to measure, and monetize, web streaming
An agreement between NPR and Triton Digital, a provider of digital services to radio stations, will give NPR stations a new option ...Chapin moves from CNN to NPR, C-SPAN founder steps down, and more…
NPR tapped CNN veteran Edith Chapin to run its foreign desk News chief Margaret Low Smith announced Chapin’s appointment last week along with ...Digital journalists look for lessons in work of Andy Carvin, NPR’s one-man newsroom
On a recent afternoon at NPR, Andy Carvin was watching a video of a protest purportedly shot in the Syrian city of ...@acarvin’s example
After the Arab Spring began, NPR's Andy Carvin remains a rare breed. More journalists are using Twitter to find stories and connect ...Mundt to NPR, APM lays off Alvarado, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist joins WHYY, and more…
NPR has hired Todd Mundt as editorial director for NPR Digital Services In his new position, Mundt will help stations develop digital ...Alex Chadwick: Recharged to cover an energetic beat
Alex Chadwick was lost. It took a journey to an unlikely place — the whitewater rapids of a Utah canyon — for ...NPR promotes Wilson to chief content officer, Arnold departs PRI, and more…
NPR President Gary Knell has restructured the news organization’s top ranks, elevating digital chief Kinsey Wilson to executive v.p. and chief content ...New NPR ethics code discourages outside contracts
NPR journalists must seek management approval to sign work contracts with other media outlets, and most such requests will not be granted, ...Keillor’s fundraiser for Obama revives complaints of bias
Like many entertainers, Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor has never tried to hide his liberal political leanings, but his decision to host an ...Blogger gets the hots for NPR’ers, Maine pubcaster appears on Family Feud, and more…
Despite the phrase “a face made for radio,” a blogger has started appraising crush-worthy folks in public radio. Babes Of NPR features ...Local/national fundraising ‘rules of the road’ needed
While a local public broadcasting station traditionally romances big-donor prospects in its locality, it can occasionally find itself in a jealous spat ...Eleven of 12 stations to continue niche blogs
All but one of the dozen pubradio stations in NPR’s Project Argo plan to keep their specialized beat-bloggers working, even though the ...NPR increases pay rates for outside producers
NPR and the Association of Independents in Radio unveiled a new payment structure for news reports Jan. 1, raising rates 7.5 percent ...NPR app for motorists gets radio from the Web as well as stations
Some new Ford cars will let their drivers shout “hourly news!” or “topics!” and choose public radio programming either on their local ...State drops death penalty for commentator Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the onetime radio journalist, activist and convicted killer whose planned jailhouse commentaries were dropped by NPR after an outcry 17 ...
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