Bob Collins‘Joe Frank is what radio in its wildest dreams wishes it could be,’ Harry Shearer said of Joe Frank, who died yesterday at age 79, leaving behind a few inspired people who remain in the business. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Public Radio
Poor Domenico Montanaro, NPR’s lead political editor, found out the hard way that a large segment the public radio audience likes things just the way they’ve always been. A touch of humor? That’s risky business. Read more →
The boss of The Takeaway broke her silence today, answering allegations that she and members of WNYC, which owns the public radio program, did not respond to sexual and racial harassment allegations against former host John Hockenberry.
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There’s little chance that Ken Stern, who once headed NPR as its CEO, actually knew much about the news process, the decisions, the writing, the political leanings of its staff, and maybe even the names of a large number of people who worked for him. Read more →
We’re big fans of PBS NewsHour’s ‘Brief But Spectacular’ series, more so today because it provides a nod to a public radio god. Read more →
You’ve probably heard that Minnesota Public Radio is celebrating 50 years, an impressive feat in local broadcasting. But 100 is twice as impressive, and to the east of us, Wisconsin Public Radio is celebrating too. Read more →
Jacqui Helbert, 32, was fired by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which owns WUTC, the NPR affiliate, after local politicians complained about her coverage of a group of high school students who lobbied against a bill forcing Tennessee students to use restrooms and locker rooms matching the sex listed on their birth certificates.
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Deep in the recesses of the World Headquarters of NewsCut, there is a picture on a wall of the original employees of Minnesota Public Radio. Young Garrison Keillor, Michael Barone, and Gary Eichten standing with three others.
All of them were men. That’s the way radio was back then. Men. It wasn’t a place for diversity. Read more →
The hit public radio show that lived longer than one of its hosts will be no more after next year, Current.org, the public media newspaper reports. Read more →
The continuing fight between Public Radio and developing technology spilled into the open again today when an Indiana station said it will stop carrying This American Life because Ira Glass has cut a deal with Pandora to provide exclusive on-demand streaming. Public Radio stations can still stream the shows live on their websites.
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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 →
Jad Abumrad, the creator of RadioLab, loves radio. So it was a little disconcerting last evening, though understandable, when he seemed to bury terrestrial radio. “I don’t know a single 20-year-old who has a radio,” he told PBS NewsHour. He passionately and correctly describes the creative beauty of radio in which the listener is a Read more →
Garrison Keillor’s decision to walk away from A Prairie Home Companion means the show is going to change. And public radio listeners and station owners are uncomfortable with change.
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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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NPR’s Linda Holmes, who writes the Monkey See blog on popular culture, has found her way — sort of — into the percolating podcast v. radio debate with her latest post about a TV show. Read more →