Please read Robert Patterson’s excellent post about how in some markets public media is helping members of the public especially hard hit by the cratering economy.
My experimentation with social media outreach has given me just a small taste of what is most likely a prodigious vein of “social capital” out there beyond the studio glass. [...]
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Social Capital
Posted in Uncategorized on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Public Radio Misnomers, Part One
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
MISNOMER(S), originally uploaded by Misnomer(S).
And in no particular order…
Ira Glass “works” for National Public Radio.
We get this a lot. “This American Life” is produced by WBEZ in Chicago and distributed by Public Radio International, not NPR. Glass once worked at National Public Radio, but he left those warrens to follow his own muse. The [...]
Congratulations, Martha!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of our own will be spending some time at that other university (you know, the one across the river): The estimable Martha Bebinger, one of 90.9’s crackerjack health reporters and keeper of Commonhealth, the go-to destination for incisive perspectives on the issue of healthcare reform in the Bay State (and, not incidentally, our most [...]
Memento Mori?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "On The Media", "public radio", Hear 2.0, NPR on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bob Garfield, co-host of the reliably superb “On the Media” (which airs Sundays on 90.9) peers into the media horizon and divines signs that bode ill for those of us in the content biz … bode very ill indeed … apocalyptically so.
A Hunger for News
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bob Oakes, Morning Edition, wbur on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting coincidence, is it not, that much of Bob Oakes’ field research is conducted tableside at local eateries?
Consider:
The Morning Edition host diligently digs into some oysters … er, I mean is digging up a big, important news story alongside Legal Seafood CEO Roger Berkowitz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2WQ00cw6rk
Mystery Schwag
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blgos, NPR on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just stumbled across this today on NPR’s Picture Show blog. The right is a letter from POTUS (click to enlarge), thanking NPR video producer John Pool for “NPR accessories.”
Not the End of the World As We Know It
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
First it was those mangy curs (aarggh) paralyzing the world’s sea lanes. Now that pesky flu.
Slate’s Shafer not Coo Coo for Cokie
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cokie Roberts, NPR, Slate on May 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Is NPR getting stale?
End of Life Care
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Inside Out, Rachel Gotbaum, wbur on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rachel Gotbaum’s series “Quality of Death, End of Life Care” has been airing in segments on Morning Edition this week. The one-hour documentary from which the segments were taken will air in its entirety Sunday at 8:00 PM. The audio will be archived on the website as well.
