Tag: Radio programs
Native radio: at the heart of public radio’s mission
Ride the school bus on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona and you’ll hear Shooting Stars, a program for kids produced mostly ...Grammy academy salutes McPartland for ‘timeless legacy’ of music
The Recording Academy presented a 2004 Trustees Award to jazz pianist and public radio host Marian McPartland. The award recognizes “music people ...Pubradio guide advises broad application of news ethics
A revised ethics guide for public radio asks journalists to "remain reportorial" instead of spouting opinions when they're off the air, and ...Triple-A strikes chord with disenchanted listeners
One musical voice gaining ground on public radio sounds a little scruffier than the rest. Rather than a viola or sax, it ...Furlaud ornaments do float away — into listeners’ fond memories
I know more than a few public radio listeners who, while admiring the news reports on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, reserve their most ardent ...Friction and smoke at Whiteriver
The internecine warfare at KNNB, the public radio station on the White Mountain Apache reservation in east central Arizona, seems insignificant now, ...Content Depot: Getting audio gets flexible
This summer public radio will get a taste of an impending change in the technological status quo: the Content Depot. This far-reaching set ...Record-breaking deejay shift: 100 hours in Jersey City
The 100 hours that made Glen Jones famous started and ended with a dream. To be precise, they started with “Impossible Dream” ...‘For listeners, we’re not the alternative, we’re the ideal’
CPB broke format in May 2001, giving its top radio honor, the Edward R. Murrow Award, to one of its own employees, ...Sonic IDs: Bursts of lush and local life are new stations’ trademark
About a year and a half ago, we were getting ready to launch a new public radio service here on Cape Cod ...Audio producer David Isay: Curiosity . . . respect . . . trust
... David Isay, along with a growing number of gifted documentary-makers, are now experiencing the satisfaction of creating serious inquiries into contemporary ...Isay’s people: survivors holding on with dignity
In the long ago 1950s, a friend of mine, the gifted writer Marya Mannes, composed short features for a lively magazine called The Reporter. ...How NPR webifies its programming — and you can, too
Nobody in public radio has encoded and streamed as much audio on the Internet — or had to automate the handling of ...Challenge for public radio: inspiring, hiring, keeping talent
Ira Glass has another vision. The first one launched his hugely successful show, This American Life, which developed a fresh narrative style for public ...Pubradio serves up UFOs down by the Rio Grande
A weekly half-hour program about space aliens — probably the only one in public radio (but who knows?) — has just been ...
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