NPR Partners with Livio for Internet Radio Device
Wired News
National Public Radio, which is supported in part by its listeners, has employed a bifurcated strategy in an attempt to remain relevant as it competes with new sources of information and forms of entertainment. Part of this strategy involve...
Tune in today for El Paso episode of 'From the Top'
El Paso Times
Christopher O'Riley performs during the taping of "From the Top" June 13 at the Plaza Theatre. (Mark Lambie / El Paso Times) EL PASO - If you missed the live taping of NPR's "From the Top" last summer at the Plaza Theatre, you can catch it ...
NPR People: Jackie Northam
WBUR
In Afghanistan, the first results of last week's presidential and provincial council elections are due to be announced Tuesday. But millions of ballots are still making their way to the capital, Kabul. That leaves some questions as to when ...
NPR CEO speaks on media’s future
Indiana Daily Student
Vivian Schiller discussed journalism as an ever-changing field that people everywhere should care about. Schiller, CEO and president of National Public Radio, spoke about the media and the field of journalism Monday to a packed audience at ...
NPR demanding that group stop using clip in ad
Boston Globe
PORTLAND, Maine— National Public Radio is demanding that a political action committee stop using a radio clip as part of its efforts to repeal Maine's same-sex marriage law. The group Stand for Marriage Maine began airing the ad last week o...
NPR's Ken Rudin Apologizes for 'Boneheaded Mistake'
NPR News
Live radio is tricky. Some times reporters talking 'live' say things they instantly regret. Just ask NPR political editor Ken Rudin , who appears on the Political Junkie segment every Wednesday on Talk of the Nation . He said something this...
How do you financially support your local NPR station?
Democratic Underground.com
I was in lower Manhattan that morning and was in my office when the planes hit the towers. I had a radio in my office and tuned in to find out wtf to do. NPR was in its deep whimsy phase in 2001 and even though the local station news depart...
NPR issues cease and desist order against Yes on 1 campaign
DAILY KOS
Matt Wickenheiser, writing in the PPH , has more on NPR sending a cease and desist order to Stand for Marriage Maine (S4MM), which says that "any use of NPR content in this manner will stop immediately." The order regards the use of audio c...
NPR did not ride balloon story
Daily Record
I ran home and turned on the radio with a sense of excitement. It was the day of the balloon boy saga, and like every other boutique shopping/latte drinking/micro brew snob/wine tasting devotee/news junkie I wanted to hear what the NPR had ...
NPR People: Howard Berkes
WBUR
For 2 1/2 days in Virginia last month, about 800 doctors, nurses, dentists and optometrists treated 2,700 uninsured and underinsured people from at least 16 different states. No one was asked for an insurance card. There were no copays, and...
Blood Donation: The Gift of Life
Food Consumer
In a 2008 interview with NPR, teenager Sophie Davis describes her role as her high school's blood drive organizer: “. . . I visited about 14 classes and talked directly to students about the blood drive," she says. She makes a point of shar...
NPR objects to content use in political ad
United Press International
PORTLAND, Maine, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- National Public Radio has demanded that backers of a referendum to overturn a Maine law allowing same-sex marriages stop using NPR content in a TV ad. Stand for Marriage Maine began running the ad Oct. 16 a...
After 11 years, road leads to Broadway for 'Wait, Wait'
Sun-Times news group
Margaret Low Smith, the vice president of programming at NPR, says "Wait, Wait" -- which sold out Carnegie Hall in 90 minutes -- is a "bona fide hit." "It is a pleasure that we have a little whimsy along with our wonk," said Smith, alluding...
NPR CEO Schiller: 'We Are Focusing on Building a Public Media Digital ...
Mediabistro.com
The final keynote at mediabistro's UGCX conference was delivered by NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller . Schiller started off with some depressing stats and said, "We've never seen a time that is more chaotic" in the new business. Specif...
NPR chief says public radio adjusts to change
Buffalo News
Public radio has a solid foothold in the radio marketplace and a key role to play in journalism, but it must continue to adapt to an increasingly digital future, National Public Radio’s president and chief executive officer said Friday in a...
