Tag: Radio programs
Appropriation cut, lack of channel doom FM for young Latino L.A.
Los Angeles Public Media, the CPB-backed startup that hoped to serve a new generation of minority listeners in one of the nation’s ...Georgia ramble turns exposé
Ira Glass didn’t know what he was in for when he walked into the post office in the seaside burg of Brunswick, ...Radio joins local probes, ruffles local feathers
WLRN Radio and the Miami Herald have been collaborating on multiplatform news production for eight years, but the investigative-reporting package that they published this ...Deep chat: ‘Kudos to NPR for the 11 percent. My focus is serving the other 89 percent’
For more than 20 years, public radio has followed a winning formula that is often summarized as “super-serve the core.” That is, ...Panel to NPR: Rein in punditizing
NPR should have its journalists phase out any long-term contracts for appearances on other media outlets, monitor those appearances more carefully and ...Wits: Writers banter, tweeters tap in new MPR variety show
After a four-show trial run last spring, Minnesota Public Radio is mounting another season of Wits, its concept for a next-generation stage-show broadcast ...For LPFMers, radio act brings ‘a ton of joy’
Low-power FM advocates are celebrating a hard-won victory with enactment of the Local Community Radio Act, approved in the last days of ...New NPR Chair Dave Edwards to name panel on improving net’s services for radio
Dave Edwards, g.m. of Milwaukee Public Radio (WUWM) for 25 years, who took over this month as chair of the NPR Board, ...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 ...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 ...Thinking outside the core
While our audience stereotypes may be better informed than they were 40 years ago, they can blind us to our potential ...‘Snap Judgment’: latest in harvest from ’07 Talent Quest
Snap Judgment, one of three new shows conceived from the CPB-backed Public Radio Talent Quest, has become a whirlwind of multimedia production with the ...MPB fires reporter for leaking Fresh Air memo
There’s one more voice that’s off the air of Mississippi Public Broadcasting following the state network’s cancellation of Fresh Air. Carl Gibson, whose ...MPB listeners, blogosphere want to know: What’s inappropriate about ‘Fresh Air’?
Why did Mississippi Public Broadcasting drop Fresh Air from its radio schedule? The blog “A Unitarian Universalist Minister in the South” set ...Project for L.A.’s youth of color still lacks FM channel
The masterminds of efforts such as NPR’s Bryant Park Project and Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo know well the difficulties ...
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