Tag: NPR
Stern’s latest credit: completing the search for NPR’s future home
In 2012, when NPR moves to its recently acquired headquarters site seven blocks east of its present home, it will have much ...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 ...Stern’s latest credit: completing the search for NPR’s future home
In 2012, when NPR moves to its recently acquired headquarters site seven blocks east of its present home, it will have much ...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 ...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 ...NPR announces Working Group to consider Digital Distribution Consortium, 2006
NPR exec Ken Stern sent this memo to public radio stations’ Authorized Representatives as a followup to the New Realities Forum in ...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 ...Germans pick NPR over Voice of America to broadcast in Berlin
An FM station in Berlin will soon become the first programmed overseas by National Public Radio.NPR’s reassignment of Bob Edwards shocks, explanations befuddle
The cry from a distraught public rang out: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” After announcing the reassignment of Morning Edition host Bob ...Why NPR reassigned Bob Edwards: show needs co-host to improve coverage
NPR reassigned Morning Edition host Bob Edwards to make way for a two-host setup intended to strengthen the show's news coverage, said Jay Kernis, ...‘Piano Jazz’ host Marian McPartland, a dame at jazz crossroads
Piano Jazz hits its silver anniversary in April, a landmark that surprises nobody more than venerated host and pianist Marian McPartland. “It’s kind of ...Joan Kroc’s $200M gift to NPR encourages big thinking about public radio’s future
Talk about how to spend the record gift began at a meeting of the network’s board last week.Strong opinions from NPR personalities raise questions about limits on editorializing
Scott Simon and Mara Liasson made remarks that some journalists and colleagues thought went too far.‘Day to Day’ debuts to high expectations
Any pressure the producers of Day to Day might feel is understandable. The new show’s selling points read like a wish list compiled by ...Zwerdling remains at NPR in new job; tensions still run high
NPR has promised veteran reporter Daniel Zwerdling another year of work, but colleagues are still asking what management’s decision to eliminate his ...
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