Tag: WBUR
Pubcasters capture 21 national Edward R. Murrow Awards
WLRN in Miami won large-market radio Murrows for feature reporting and use of sound. Chicago’s WBEZ also won for news documentary and ...NPR and WBUR partner in ‘Here & Now’ expansion
More than 100 public radio stations have picked up the midday NPR news show Here & Now with its expansion to two ...Preparing public media newsrooms to cover local crises
Crisis coverage will stress several layers of a public station's operating systems — from newsroom layout to editorial decision-making; from the flexibility ...WBUR microsite explores Mass. drug lab crisis
In late May, WBUR published “Bad Chemistry: Annie Dookhan and the Massachusetts Drug Lab Crisis,” an online report on a former state ...WBUR’s crisis coverage reveals potential of ‘on-air and online’ news
For more than a decade, pubcasters have debated whether local stations can harness the power of the Internet. There has been no ...Pubcasters win total of 173 regional Murrow Awards
NPR stations won 82 large-market regional Murrow Awards, while small-market pubcasters captured 91. Among all stations, WLRN in Miami topped public radio’s regional ...Live from Boston: A marathon of coverage
Edgar B. Herwick III, a features reporter for WGBH, was enjoying his field assignment on that cool, sunny Monday, interviewing runners as ...NPR cancels Talk of the Nation, pairs with WBUR in bid to bolster middays
After more than two decades on the air, NPR’s Talk of the Nation will come to an end in June to make ...NPR drops Talk of the Nation, replaces with WBUR’s Here & Now
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. After more than two decades on the air, NPR’s Talk of the Nation will ...Looking to get in listeners’ pockets
A growing number of public radio stations can now be found on mobile devices, their signature icons wedged between Angry Birds and ...WBUR entering Cape Cod market with purchase of WMVY
Boston NPR news station 90.9 WBUR-FM is wading into the Cape Cod resort market and going toe-to-toe with WGBH’s network of stations ...KUNC’s Grace Hood wins Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize
A reporter for the NPR station based in Greeley, Colo., Hood earned the award for Investigating Colorado’s Online K–12 Schools, a three-part report about ...Insistent sponsors put newsrooms on alert
Underwriters of public radio programs increasingly want to link their names more closely to particular stories and reporting projects, according to station ...WGBH, the top producer of PBS programs, now owns Public Radio International
In a move signalling its ambitions to extend its clout and influence in public radio, Boston’s WGBH has acquired Public Radio International, ...Click and Clack are checking out but will keep chortling in repeats
NPR announced June 8 that Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the popular and long-running Car Talk, will lay down their wrenches ...
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