Tag: NPR
NPR’s Juan Williams fired for one too many opinionated comment
NPR President Vivian Schiller has apologized to public radio for how she and her executives handled last month’s dismissal of news analyst ...NPR sets a goal: add 100 reporters to statehouse beats
A multiyear initiative led by NPR, Impact of Government, eventually will put two additional state-level reporters to work in each of the ...Under-explained firing makes NPR an issue just in time for election
Top NPR officials may have thought their Oct. 20 decision to dismiss veteran journalist Juan Williams was about journalistic objectivity, but to ...Schiller apologizes to pubradio colleagues for handling of Williams firing
NPR President Vivian Schiller dispatched this apology Sunday evening, Oct. 24 [2010], six days after the network set off a pre-election political ...NPR fires news analyst Juan Williams
NPR fired news analyst Juan Williams late yesterday over comments he made about Muslims during an Oct. 18 appearance on Fox News. ...Study sees growth if NPR loosens up, sounds less elite
A new study for NPR identifies a much bigger potential news audience for public radio if producers craft shows to be ...RTDNA national Murrow Awards for 2009
NPR won four national Edward R. Murrow Awards in latest RTDNA contest honoring excellence in electronic journalism. Top winners among the 14 ...Schedule: web platform model by year’s end
An NPR-led project this month officially launched planning for a joint Public Media Platform to put public radio and TV content on ...George Foster Peabody Awards for 2009
Producers for public broadcasting — and developers for its websites — received 14 Peabody Awards, announced March 31, 2010 Regarding websites, ...Jim McEachern, 71, NPR’s point man for infrastructure
Jim McEachern, who was the principal technical leader for the Public Radio Satellite System for its first two decades and was a ...Radio nets and PBS propose ‘public media platform’ based on API
... National Public Radio requested CPB aid to begin technical and business planning of a shared web platform with American Public Media, ...Recession 101 is the next course for 22 pubradio journalists
A new journalism training program offered by NPR News and funded by CPB will train 22 public radio reporters from 19 states ...NPR cuts deeper as forecast darkens
In a new round of budget-cutting, NPR has reduced salaries and benefits for its officers and is proposing that union employees accept ...News cycle attracts record listening
NPR programming on public radio stations topped its previous audience record by reaching 27.5 million listeners a week during Arbitron’s fall 2008 ...Schiller: ‘No reason for NPR to go it alone’ on the Web
An often touted and tabled proposal to recast public radio’s web presence as a combination of content from NPR and its member ...
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