We welcome the coming riff-raff; our secret is out. The people who care enough not to disappear after covering a story. The next philanthropists? One common hope in Carlton and St. Louis counties, and what will the driverless car do to our cities? Read more →
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Back in my earlier days — just before I moved to Minnesota in 1992 — I ran the programming at a small-market radio station in Massachusetts. It was a great little station that cared about the town it served, read the school lunch menus, covered the selectmen, broadcast live from charity events, and passed along the news that your dog was lost — all the things that people say now they wanted then but didn’t really want enough to keep from turning on the public radio station from Albany instead. Read more →
Real pros say all the right things at the right time, but there’s no getting around the fact that having your show canceled and shown the door is rough on any person with a beating heart.
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Tomorrow is the last day for NPR’s Talk of the Nation. NPR is dropping the show and getting out of the midday talk business. So Highlights, the kids’ magazine, dedicated a special edition of its classic game to spot the differences in two drawings. Host Neal Conan had told a Highlights staffer last year that Read more →
The word “sincere” and Stephen Colbert are not usually associated with one another, but there isn’t a better way to describe this clip. Lorna Colbert died last week. Stephen Colbert said this about her in a very good a New York Times profile last year: “She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless Read more →
In a satire piece on GlobalPost.com, Peter Gelling explores the language US journalists use when covering foreign countries. Human rights activists say revelations that the US regime has expanded its domestic surveillance program to private phone carriers is more evidence of the North American country’s pivot toward authoritarianism. The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported this Read more →
Is there a more beloved person in Public Radio than Carl Kasell? So it’s not surprising that people have been concerned that the former NPR anchor hasn’t been on his regular spot on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me for weeks. Read more →
It’s great sport to criticize TV meteorologists for their penchant for hyperbole, but it’s a different kind of grief that’s descending on Oklahoma City meteorologist Mike Morgan. Read more →
There was a somewhat interesting difference in the coverage of Byron David Smith yesterday, the man who allegedly shot and killed two teenagers who broke into his home last Thanksgiving.
Bob Collins
Nate Minor
The day photo journalism died
The arc of the media hero
What’s in a (NPR) name?