Devoted NPR listeners on the West Coast may have noticed a sudden minute-long drop-off of audio during this morning’s broadcast of Morning Edition. The reason: Today is Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day, and some rascal was messing around with the control board.
Kim Kardashian’s recent appearance on NPR’s news quiz Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me! was too much for some NPR fans, who balled up their canvas tote bags and fired off angry emails to ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen.
Two weeks ago, TL;DR, the internet-centered companion show to WYNC and NPR's On the Media, ran an episode criticizing Vivek Wadhwa, an author, entrepreneur and academic who writes about women in tech, for overshadowing the voices of actual women. WYNC took the episode down early last week because it didn't include…
On Friday, a Maryland court ruled that Adnan Syed, the subject of last year's Serial podcast, will be allowed to appeal his 2000 conviction for the murder of ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. According to Buzzfeed, the state's Court of Special Appeals will hear arguments on the case in June.
"Why doesn't America read anymore?" NPR asked on Tuesday.
NPR featured a weird (or, as some who love Moscato might say, "wiggity wiggity wack") story Thursday about how black people love Moscato. The article, titled "Moscato: The Gateway Wine For People Of Color?," was produced by NPR's Code Switch blog ["news from frontiers of race, ethnicity and culture"]: The Gateway NPR…
NPR call-in program Talk of the Nation, which began broadcasting in 1991, aired its last episode today. But all is not lost: Science Friday will continue on as its own show.
Writer, performer, and frequent NPR contributor David Rakoff has died following a three-year battle with cancer. Rakoff was born in Montreal, and lived, variously, in Toronto, London and Japan before settling in New York City, which he called "the great love of my life" and was the subject of much of his writing.…
NPR announced today that Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, will be retiring as hosts of the popular weekly call-in show Car Talk.
Maurice Sendak, the author and illustrator behind classics like Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, died today at age 83, leaving behind an incomparable and enormous body of work. Since the news of his death, bits and pieces of his life — quotes, drawings, videos, illustrated envelopes — have been…
NPR's The Salt blog warns that the hippie dippy organic yogurt you make today could outlive you.
In your tricky Tuesday media column: how to get fired at the Washington Post, NPR listeners are just so ugh, Lane Brown to New York mag, Michelangelo Signorile to HuffPo, and a shocking report about women in media.
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On Friday, Gawker broke the story of a horrifically ill-conceived installment of Warren Olney's current affairs show on public radio, To The Point. Using the Jerry Sandusky child rape scandal as its jumping-off point, the show somehow drew a dotted line to the topic of gays and lesbians' suitability as foster and…
In your wispy Wednesday media column: Jared Kushner's latest scheme, Michele Norris's replacement, the gradual death of print continues, Harper's Bazaar revamps, and Chris Matthews make a funny.
Tumblr doesn't like to talk about all the porn and spam coursing through its servers. But when NPR's Fresh Air started commenting on the problem, the microblogging site came clean. Because who is dumb enough to cross Terry Gross?
In your magic Monday media column: Michele Norris takes a hiatus at NPR, fuckery at Gannett, The Daily Beast TV is here, newspapers roll out a false slogan, and Charlie Rose on morning television would be... good.
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A day after radio host Lisa Simeone was fired from her documentary show Soundprint for being a "leader" of Occupy DC, NPR announced it would stop distributing her other show, World of Opera. Which means that Republicans will definitely stop kicking NPR around, now.
Want to know how to get the world to care about the firing of the host of an Opera show? Fire her because of her participation in a popular social movement! Lisa Simeone, the host of NPR's World of Opera was fired for helping out Occupy Wall Street.
In your drizzly Wednesday media column: a prime time shakeup at MSNBC, key staffers laid off at the Village Voice, Reuters' editor writes a crappy memo, The Daily does something right, and Gary Knell's upcoming ass kissing campaign.
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In your sparkling Monday media column: Sean Hannity mulls the end, NPR's chief hints at post-government funding, Bill Keller's split personality, magazine ad revenue report, and Conde Nast goes Hollywood.
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