The Nation, Mother Jones, NPR, and CIR: The Non-Profit Business ModelRE: The Nation, Mother Jones, NPR, and CIR: The Non-Profit Business ModelIt is great for us outside the US to be able to listen to NPR and read the Nation on their websites. Go global!Informative ArticleThis is great and informative...
How NPR's CEO was DumpedNPR CEOIt appears by all metric that he was very successful,in stabil;izing then growing the business. Maybe teh major networks need to hire him. I guess success does not count at NPR National Peoples RadioRE: How NPR's CEO was DumpedI can't tell if the...
One unusual aspect of last week's management change at National Public Radio is that the man who fired CEO Ken Stern and has replaced him an Interim CEO, Dennis Haarsager, is a veteran blogger and a good one at that. So, when Haarsager promised on Friday that...
Insiders say that National Public Radio NPR's CEO Ken Stern lost his job yesterday in a shockingly abrupt fashion. My sources say that Board Chair Dennis Haarsager simply walked into Stern's office, fired him and told him that it was time for him "to leave the...
Earlier this week when Toyota passed GM to become the world's top automaker, it didn't surprise many people. Detroit's Big Three has been struggling for the past few years to make up the ground they've lost to foreign carmakers. In an interview with NPR, Lee Iacocca says the Big Three...
BOSTON -- Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, of NPR's "Car Talk" fame, are just two low-ego lugs. That's why -- familiar self-deprecating shtick aside -- the boys' ambivalence about their new public television series rings seriously true. "I hope that people...
The fine folks over at KOSU carried an NPR story Tuesday morning that said $4-per-gallon gas caused sudden changes in America's buying habits. Out with the Suburban, in with the Mini. And in with the worst June sales numbers since the Model A. My...
WASHINGTON, July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Radio and Television News Directors' Association RTNDA has named "The Bob Edwards Show" as the 2008 recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for News Documentary Radio Network, it was announced today. Given in recognition of the original XM show's critically-acclaimed radio...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nile Therapeutics, Inc. , today announced that it has entered into a worldwide, exclusive license agreement with Mayo Clinic ("Mayo") for the rights to commercially develop CU-NP, a rationally designed natriuretic peptide that consists of amino acid chains identical to those produced by...
Season Two of the Award Winning Series Premieres on Thirteen/WNET Sunday, June 15 NEW YORK, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- America's most extraordinary young musicians aged 8 to 18 will be showcased this spring and summer when From the Top at Carnegie Hall returns for its second season...
She & Him, Featuring Indie-rock Troubadour M. Ward and Actress Zooey Deschanel, First Act to Air PHILADELPHIA -- WXPN (http://www.xpn.org), the nationally-recognized leader in Triple A Album Adult Alternative music and noncommercial radio service of the University of Pennsylvania today announced that the first "Lillywhite Sessions at Avatar...
LONDON -- JPMorgan announced today that David Wells will join the firm as the Investment Bank's head of Marketing and Communications for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, based in London. In this role, David will also oversee corporate media relations across the region. David joins JPMorgan from...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I think music is part of communication. I think it is part of the way that people touch each other, and that is very precious to me. And astronomy is in a sense an opposite thing because instead of looking inwards and looking towards the people...
Agreement Includes NPR and PBS National Web Sites, NPR Podcasts NEW YORK, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- National Public Media, LLC NPM, the premier sponsorship company for public broadcasting -- representing NPR, PBS and all public radio and television stations around the country -- has reached an agreement...
Settlement is Largest to Date among Stock Option Backdating Class Actions DAINGERFIELD, Texas -- Nix, Patterson & Roach LLP NPR, one of the nation's leading plaintiffs law firms, announced today that it has reached a $160 million settlement on behalf of the class and its client, the Arkansas...
A local group has succeeded in raising the $2.4 million required to purchase National Public Radio affiliate KCPW. Ed Sweeney, president of Wasatch Public Media Inc. and former general manager at KCPW, said Thursday that Wasatch Public Media has raised $815,000 from approximately 835 donors who have...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c93178) has announced the addition of "Building the Latino Future: Success Stories for the Next Generation" to their offering. Building the Latino Future is a collection of inspirational stories from prominent Latinos in all industries, including the corporate world, the non-profit world,...
NPR Commentator and Duluth News Tribune Editorial Page Editor Robin Washington is First Recipient SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Robin Washington, the editorial page editor of Minnesota's Duluth News Tribune and a television producer and National Public Radio commentator, is the first recipient of the Be'chol...
Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent,NBC News, will converse with NPR's Mike Shuster on his new book "WarJournal: My Five Years in Iraq" on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, at Temple Emanuel as apart of TOWN HALL'S ongoing Writers Bloc series. Engel's latest work is a collection of observations...
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- RegScan, Inc. is proud to announce the addition of Kenneth P. Stern, former CEO of National Public RadioR (NPRR), to its board of directors. Mr. Stern has had a distinguished career with National Public RadioR (NPRR). He served as executive vice...
