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Does Non-Profit Media Have a Competitive Edge?
Last night, here in New York City, the National Magazine Awards were announced. Among the usual suspects (The New Yorker, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Atlantic, Rolling Stone) were several winners with an alternative business model. The non-profit Mother Jones won the award for general excellence in...
How NPR's CEO was Dumped
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...
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Award-Winning Author, Frances Moore Lappe, to Be Featured Guest on Leadership Forum, Wise Talk, on July 23rd
Frances Moore Lappe, award-winning authorof "Diet for a Small Planet" and "Getting a Grip," will be the featuredguest of Sue Bethanis, executive coach and Founder/CEO of MariposaLeadership, Inc., on her popular leadership forum Wise Talk on July 23, 3pmPDT. Bethanis and Lappe will discuss how powerlessness can be turnedinto...
XM Radio's 'The Bob Edwards Show' Wins Edward R. Murrow Award for Critically-Acclaimed Documentary on Homeless Children
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...
Turnpike lease a good idea
Last Sunday morning on National Public Radio I heard Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell defend his plan to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a private operator. This is progress! Privatization of transportation including freeways and their tolls will optimize fuel use because prices will reflect true costs, including energy costs....
Toughest Job You'll Never Get, The
Would-be EDs cite inadequate mentoring, low pay, and poor lifestyle as career obstacles Jatinda Abcarian, executive director of Oakland, Calif.-based Youth Radio, knows her organization from way back when. In the early 1990s, she was among the first high school students to undergo Youth Radio's training program,...
'Seven Words' are now inescapable
Comic George Carlin must have loved the irony: His Seven Dirty Words, which got him arrested 36 years ago, are everywhere on the Internet today. You won't hear the words on National Public Radio or even Fox TV, and you won't read them in USA TODAY or Newsweek...
Intelligence Squared U.S. Moves to Rockefeller University to Accommodate Sold Out Audiences
Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford styledebate series sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation, today announced thatits third year of sold out public debates will move to RockefellerUniversity's Caspary Auditorium beginning with the fall season in September2008. Debate topics for the fall season will be "Universal health coverage shouldbe the federal government's...
Mississippi, Believe IT! campaign back with new stories
One might not believe it, but acknowledging the 800-pound gorilla in the room - outdated, false stereotypes of Mississippi elsewhere in the country and world - instead of ignoring them led to the successful pro bono campaign by The Cirlot Agency called Mississippi, Believe It! (www.mississippibelieveit.com), that has now gotten...
Donors mobilize to keep NPR affiliate KCPW local
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...
New Media Award in Jewish Diversity
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...
Ken Stern Appointed to RegScan, Inc. Board of Directors
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...
Is There a Veep in the House?
Three years ago, Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin did an interview with National Public Radio, which for a conservative like Ryan must have been like an expedition behind enemy lines. Ryan did a good job explaining on the program why his home state-where President Bush lost by a...
NPR correspondents, by chance, in earthquake
NEW YORK -- Two National Public Radio correspondents in central China by chance for a week's worth of feature stories instead found themselves reporting gripping details of the earthquake that killed thousands on Monday. Melissa Block narrated a first-person account while the ground was shaking and her...
Bruised Democrats vow to heal wounds for US election
WASHINGTON AFP — Top Democrats were adamant Wednesday the party would unite behind a champion and take back the White House, despite the bruising nature of the slugfest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. There was some anxiety that the protracted bout between the two senators, which has...
FBI agents raid office protecting whistleblowers: reports
WASHINGTON AFP — FBI agents on Tuesday raided the Office of Special Counsel and closed down its e-mail system in what appears to be a probe into political misuse of the agency, the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio reported. According to the Journal, the agents seized...
NPR news: national pentagon radio?
WHILE THE IRAQI government continued its large-scale military assault in Basra, the NPR reporter's voice from Iraq was unequivocal on the morning of March 27, 2008: "There is no doubt that this operation needed to happen." Such flat-out statements, uttered with journalistic tones and without attribution, are routine...
The contemporary Middle East; a documentary history
The contemporary Middle East; a documentary history. Felton, John. CQ Press 2008 729 pages $115.00 Hardcover DS42 Felton a freelance reporter and former foreign affairs editor for National Public Radio collects political speeches, diplomatic...
NEW DIGS MAY BE SUBTERRANEAN
Public radio station KRCC (91.5 FM) may soon go underground. Literally. Colorado College, which owns the station, wants to build KRCC a new home in an environmentally friendly, solar-powered, partially- buried structure it's calling an "Earth station." "Lots of NPR (National Public...
Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter Becky Schlegel Makes National Debut With FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE, June 17
"You've got some notes there in your voice that make an older person feel faint -makes cowboys order an extra beer." - Garrison Keillor NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Multi-award winning singer/songwriter Becky Schlegel makes her national debut with FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE (Lilly Ray/IGO Records) on June...
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