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NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to 797 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. This act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which also created the Public Broadcasting Service in addition to NPR. A CPB organizing committee under John Witherspoon first created a Board of Directors chaired by Bernard Mayes. This Board then hired Donald Quayle to be the first President of NPR with studios in Washington D.C., 30 employees and 90 public radio stations as charter members.NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming.
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The Brainpickings brouhaha and the problem with affiliate links
There’s been a lot of sound and fury recently about a blogger named Maria Popova, who makes her living by curating links to smart content on her Brainpickings blog. Popova has been quite vocal about how she doesn’t like traditional advertising and instead relies on donations from her readers, in much the same way that former Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan now does.
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Richard Ben Cramer, Wrote of Presidential Politics, Dies at 62
Mr. Cramer was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of “What it Takes,” an account of the 1988 election that was considered among the finest books ever written about American politics.
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“Post-Industrial Journalism”: A new Columbia report examines the disrupted news universe
There’s a big new report out from Columbia Journalism School this morning, entitled “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present. ” Its authors are a sort of Justice League of New York journalism schools and will be recognizable to anyone who’s been following the future-of-news world in recent years: CUNY’s C.
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As 4 stations cancel his show, is Tavis Smiley’s advocacy journalism too political for public radio?
One week after Tavis Smiley was yanked off the air by Chicago Public Media for being too much of an advocate, the veteran broadcaster slammed President Barack Obama in a New York Times story published over the weekend. … Read more.
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The Lens will pick up many of the newsgathering functions planned for NewOrleansReporter.org
The Lens Plans for NewOrleansReporter. org, a nonprofit newsroom stemming out of a partnership between NPR affiliate WWNO and the University of New Orleans, have been “revised. ” How revised? There won’t be a nonprofit newsroom called NewOrleansReporter. org.
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Engelberg: ProPublica Wants Broader Base of Small Donors
Raising money, gaining audience, having impact. Despite a $10 million annual budget, 34 reporters, and partnerships with multiple major news organizations, ProPublica faces similar sustainability issues as many startup publishers. ProPublica's managing editor (set to become editor-in-chief early next year), Stephen Engelberg, spoke with a couple dozen journalists at the University of Oregon's Turnbull Center in Portland last month.
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Counterpoint: Political reporters say attending conventions is crucial
The Huffington Post | The Washington Post | New York | The New York Times | CJR | WIred Last week in Tampa, Michael Calderone writes, Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Sheelah Kolhatkar briefly attended the Republican National Convention and walked… Read more.
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The one big thing that newspaper visionaries didn’t foresee
It’s easy to forget sometimes that the world wide web has been around for more than two decades now, or that it has caused massive and ongoing disruption of almost every form of content from books and newspapers to music and movies. In the early 1990s, only a few really foresaw that kind of revolution occurring in media, and as former journalist Mark Potts notes in a recent blog post, one of those who looked into the future with some accuracy was the former managing editor of the Washington Post, who wrote a memo to the paper’s executives describing what this future might look like and how it would change the industry.
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Understanding the Ryan plan
The striking thing about Paul Ryan’s ascent is the gulf between his proposals and the way the media have characterized them. Since Mitt Romney named Ryan to the ticket on Saturday, the news has been filled with talk of the “ fiscal conservative ” (NPR) “ intent on erasing deficits ” (New York Times) who has become “ the intellectual heart of the Republican Party’s movement to slash deficits” ( The Post).
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Raney Aronson, New ‘Frontline’ Deputy Executive Producer
“Frontline” has promoted Raney Aronson to a new position, deputy executive producer, signaling that she might one day succeed David Fanning, the longtime executive producer of the documentary series on PBS.
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