Tag: NPR
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 ...Dave Creagh, 60, producer and station exec ‘in vanguard of public radio pioneers’
Dave Creagh, an early All Things Considered executive producer who went on to lead other programs and major-market stations throughout his influential 22-year pubradio ...NPR rooted in stations that still require federal dollars
When Gary Knell officially started work this month as NPR’s president, he probably found no shortage of ideas about what he should ...Western stations ask for new election to fill McTaggart’s seat on NPR Board
When a candidate wins re-election but withdraws from service before taking office, does the electorate get another chance to vote? Given the irregular ...APM chief McTaggart, seen as competitor, leaves NPR Board
American Public Media’s president, Jon McTaggart, won re-election to the NPR Board this summer but won’t be taking the seat after all. McTaggart ...News leaders draw hard line on employees’ public comments
Update, Nov. 10: The NPR Board postponed considering the ethics policy scheduled for its Nov. 10-11 meeting. Spokesperson Dana Rehm said work ...Knight-Batten Award, 2011
NPR social media specialist Andy Carvin received a Knight-Batten Award for innovation in journalism. Carvin, whose job as the network’s senior social media ...News and Documentary Emmys, 2011
It’s been a very good Emmy season for indie documentaries on PBS. POV received four of the six statuettes credited to PBS in ...
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