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Federal funding for PBS and NPR is about to be eliminated, in a move that will likely cause an existential cash crunch for many local broadcast stations. PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger warned that the cuts will be felt across the country. “These cuts will significantly impact all of our stations, but will be…
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting. The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that they work to root out…
Every Sunday, NPR host Will Shortz, The New York Times’ crossword puzzle guru, gets to quiz thousands of listeners in a long-running segment called the Sunday Puzzle. While written to be solvable without too much foreknowledge, the brainteasers are usually challenging even for skilled contestants. That’s why some experts think they’re a promising way to…
You can imagine that a lot of people are asking me, a guy once fired by National Public Radio, whether I’m getting a kick out of the media firestorm now enveloping the organization. Well, I’m over that personal hellhole. The executives who fired me and publicly called me a psycho and a bigot have all…
Ruth Seymour, the hard-driving broadcast pioneer who transformed KCRW into a public radio powerhouse during her 32-year run at what was a sleepy Santa Monica-based station, died Friday. She was 88. Seymour died after a long illness at her home in Santa Monica, former KCRW producer/publicity director Sarah Spitz announced. The Bronx-born Seymour joined the…
NPR reporter Claudia Grisales, who was interviewing Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) at the time he was allegedly elbowed by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), spoke about her experience in an interview on CNN Tuesday. “[U]ntil he was shoved, he lunged towards me, in that moment,” Grisales, who is NPR’s congressional correspondent, told CNN’s Anderson…
NPR invited the Louisiana rapper to perform after he admitted he didn’t know what a Tiny Desk was. New Orleans rapper Juvenile is NPR’s newest guest to grace the coveted Tiny Desk. Back in April, a fan tweeted at the radio station to get Juvie on stage, to which he replied: “Wtf is a tiny…
The second entry in NPR’s Black Music Month celebration sat one of the biggest men in R&B behind one very tiny desk. Babyface is exactly the kind of artist that excites me most to see appear behind the Tiny Desk. He’s been celebrated for decades (the man has 12 Grammys) but stands just short of…
Twitter has dropped the “state-affiliated media” label from NPR’s account and replaced it with a “government funded” label, after facing backlash over the decision. The label first appeared on NPR’s account on Tuesday, leading the news organization to halt its posts on the social media platform. “We were disturbed to see last night that Twitter…
Twitter on Tuesday evening affixed a “state-affiliated media” label — a marker used to help users identify outlets that are editorially controlled by governments — to NPR’s main account, despite previous policy guidelines specifically noting NPR did not fall under that category. In a statement shared on Wednesday, NPR CEO John Lansing described the move…