Bob CollinsThe Red Cross sent a six-page response to the investigation into disaster services provided by the organization, demanding that NPR and ProPublica issue corrections. It probably shouldn’t have done that. Read more →
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It’s only a matter of time before some enterprising public radio station gives away ‘I Am Lakshmi Singh’ hats during a pledge drive.
Tote bags? So very yesterday. Read more →
Edward Schumacher Matos’ last day as the listeners’ representative at NPR gave him one last opportunity to poke his bosses in the eyes.
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A presidential bid would allow Sanders a better platform to do what many Democrats were scared to death to do in the recent campaign: Stand up and defend middle-class principles that have traditionally been Democratic principles. Read more →
The clocks changed this morning because people listen to radio differently now. NPR’s national newscasts are more frequent now Read more →
Tom Magliozzi’s laugh gave public radio permission to laugh and not be constantly weighed down by thinking such deep thoughts all the time. Read more →
Jarl Mohn, the new CEO of NPR forced out a highly regarded senior editor whose vision helped push NPR into a world beyond radio.
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NPR’s latest cost-cutting has taken out a public radio icon — Robert Krulwich.
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NPR is backing off its plan that many journalists thought was intended to take the teeth out of its ombudsman position. Read more →
As expected, NPR is ending its relationship with its ombudsman, Edward Schumacher-Matos. His contract expires at the end of the month and isn’t being renewed. His demise was nearly a foregone conclusion since his astonishing seven-part “investigation” into NPR’s series on the removal of Native American children from their homes in South Dakota, an investigation Read more →
Here you go, Morning Edition fans. Everything you’d want to know about Steve Inskeep, the NPR host of the morning program. Charlie Rose claims it’s the program he gets his news from before he goes to work in the morning to tell people the news. “Anybody who can do this job can do this job,” Read more →
Bruce MacDonald
NPR president and CEO Jarl Mohn says his commercial media expertise will help NPR grow. Read more →
The interview carries a significant message: Politicians in the coming elections — especially Democrats — are going to have to answer for their past positions on same-sex marriage, the same way politicians of days-gone-by had to answer for their views on race and segregation. Read more →
There’s something not right at all about this morning’s NPR story from Texas in which a Texas family dropped their Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance because not a single one of the 28 obstetricians in their area ‘took Obamacare.’
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As MPR cancels Tell Me More, can public radio, long linked with upscale white Americans, make significant progress in appealing to communities of color? Read more →