Bob CollinsNPR, which was the one of the first major media companies to embrace podcasting, now seems afraid of it. Read more →
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For the second time in a month, NPR is distancing itself from some of the pioneer reporters who built the news organization.
NPR clarified that Cokie Roberts, who wrote an anti-Trump newspaper column, is not a full-time employee of the network and hasn’t been for a long time. She’s a commentator. Read more →
NPR is about to unveil a new podcast and with any luck, it will change the too-earnest, too dispassionate culture of traditional public radio storytelling. Read more →
Windham, who died last night, was as good a person character-wise as you’ll ever find in a newsroom as evidenced by his work with young people, with whom he led overseas mission trips. Read more →
If you’re a regular listener to MPR News, you probably noticed a disturbance in the force of public radio, whose fans tend to like to have things just where they were the day before.
It involved one word: “Live”, and boy did the bosses at NPR hear about it.
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NPR is getting some criticism for getting a story right.
Welcome to the world of campaign coverage. Read more →
The social media landscape has given rise to a new art form: the ‘why I quit’ treatise. You’ve probably seen them from time to time. Someone doesn’t want to work somewhere anymore, quits, and then bares all of the faults of the workplace with the innuendo that its time is up. Read more →
She doesn’t have the visibility in this neck of the woods as other public radio staples like Keillor or the Car Talk guys, but another pioneer of public radio — Diane Rehm — is about to call it quits. Read more →
The Washington Post says there’s gnashing of teeth at NPR because of a problem that’s been developing since it started on Feb. 26, 1970 — people are aging.
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As long as radio survives, many Americans will get to enjoy a favorite pastime of media — critiquing voices coming out of their transistor.
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An announcement that didn’t get a lot of notice when it was issued on Friday prompts us to recall one of the most turbulent moments in the history of public radio — the day NPR canned Bob Edwards, the longtime host of Morning Edition.
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Politico Media’s Capital New York has exposed a bit of the tension between podcasters and broadcasters in the public radio realm, including a brewing battle of the generations. Read more →
The Washington Post (via NPR) has lifted the curtain on a debate underway within NPR on whether obscenities should be allowed on public radio.
Honk if you thought Nina Totenberg would be one of the NPR reporters most likely to push back against an edict that they be bleeped. Read more →
The new NPR ombudsman is taking on an old complaint from some public radio listeners: the choice of what commercial interests to allow underwrite NPR programming.
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Following criticism from fellow journalists, public radio show host Diane Rehm has curbed some of her lobbying for right-to-die laws.
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