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After learning they were separately pursuing stories on the pioneering label and its founder, producers Joe Richman and Jad Abumrad decided to share tape and research.
The master of entertaining listeners while explaining complex topics is working with a “new mafia” of media creators.
Krulwich said his decision to retire was not because “anything bad has happened, more like the opposite.”
A podcast coloring book is now a thing.
A former NPR exec brings three radio producers to the digital media company.
What we’ve been reading this week.
After a four-year run, science correspondent Robert Krulwich’s blog on NPR.org, Krulwich Wonders, will end Sept. 30 as the network seeks to cut costs. “NPR (in the form of a super-top executive) sat me down and, after four years of generously supporting this blog, told me it can’t anymore,” Krulwich wrote in a blog post Wednesday. “It needs to cut costs and — you know the phrase — it has chosen to go ‘in new directions.’ So at the end of this month, Krulwich Wonders will no longer appear on NPR’s website.”
Plus: the FCC’s to-do list grows, and podcast listening rivals radio among some consumers.
Plus: Scott Nourse joins PBS Digital, and the Radiolab guys visit Colbert.