Bob CollinsScott Simon, host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR, is a master essayist and storyteller. He’s telling a compelling story now on Twitter: the imminent death of his mother.
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If listeners contribute directly to NPR, what happens to local public radio? 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 little spat in Washington over NPR’s new headquarters has gotten plenty of attention after an article last week in the Washington Post. Conservatives have had a field day with the $201 million headquarters, using it to renew and old debate over whether public broadcasting should get any government assistance (this ignores the fact that 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 →