Carl retired as an NPR newsreader a few years ago, and last night he taped his final episode of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. Of his many accomplishments, proving that a serious news person can have a personality may be the most important, especially for public radio types. Read more →
Not too many people apparently saw the new CEO of NPR coming. Jarl Mohn takes a job that has been the center of turmoil for years. He comes from a radio disc jockey background and used to be known as Lee Masters before he became an exec at MTV and VH1 back when they were Read more →
If you do nothing else today, make a run to the NPR website that’s been set up in support of the network’s Morning Edition series from the U.S.-Mexico border. Read more →
The only thing that made Carl Kasell’s retirement from NPR acceptable, was that he’d still be on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me every week. Now, that’s ending too. Kasell announced today he’s retiring from the show. “My favorite time at NPR has been Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! It was loads of fun and gave Read more →
With the end of a month approaching, it’s “goodbye” time for workers who have taken buyouts at their companies which are trying to cut costs. At NPR, newscaster Jean Cochran gave her last newscast on Friday, the moment captured in this video. Newscaster Paul Brown also took the buyout as did Morning Edition editor Anne Read more →
Whoever makes the final decision on who will next head NPR has a problem. The media landscape is changing and public radio, in particular, is in no position to think itself isolated from the market forces that are eating away at legacy media. But public radio is also a culture and the people in it don’t like any tinkering with the culture. Read more →
Andy Carvin has been offered a buyout from NPR, which is shedding 10 percent of its workforce. Read more →
We seeing the beginning of the exit of some familiar voices from NPR as the public radio organization cuts 10 percent of its staff because of financial tough times. Read more →
The new voice of NPR is Sabrina Farhi. Read more →
The plot against pensions, the bad message being sent by good news, what’s walking out of NPR, a really short love story, and taking Mariano Rivera out of the ballgame. Read more →
What’s in a name? Everything when it comes to polling about the health care law, officially known as the Affordable Care Act.
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Some NPR listeners are challenging the “patriotism” of NPR because it’s allowing the new Al Jazeera America Read more →
The revenue woes that have decimated commercial media visited NPR today when the public radio network announced its cutting its staff by 10 percent. Read more →
The ‘user fee’ to get an education, predicting suicide, Indian foster care controversy in South Dakota expands, a Shaina Briscoe update, and Ben Garvin’s magic beard. Read more →
Kids who make a difference, when an NPR journalist destroys NPR journalism, what go wrong with Ticketmaster’s entrance into the scalping market, watching the lights go out with Alzheimer’s, and the Islamic center proposal in St. Cloud. Read more →
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