NPR

Celeb Guests Take Over NPR's "Open Mic" - Posted June 18, 2009
This morning, NPR debuted a new segment, Open Mic, on its "Morning Edition" show. The premiere of the special series featured designer Jonathan Adler and his husband, Simon Doonan, who serves as creative director for high end department store Barneys. The couple took over the microphone for the seven-minute segment and... [FishBowlNY]

Miss California Debuts On Fox|Roxana's First Interview|Boston Globe Unions Ratify Contracts|Observer Interim Editor Knows How To Merge Print And Electronic - Posted May 27, 2009
TVNewser: Fox & Friends had a special guest host today: Miss California Carrie Prejean. Donald Trump predicted we'll be seeing more of her on Fox. FishbowlDC: Freed Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi will give her first post-prison interview to NPR tomorrow. AgencySpy: Another example of magazines looking for ad dollars wherever they can... [FishBowlNY]

Miss California Debuts On Fox|Roxana's First Interview|Boston Globe Unions Ratify Contracts|Observer Interim Editor Knows How To Merge Print And Electronic - Posted May 27, 2009
TVNewser: Fox & Friends had a special guest host today: Miss California Carrie Prejean. Donald Trump predicted we'll be seeing more of her on Fox. FishbowlDC: Freed Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi will give her first post-prison interview to NPR tomorrow. AgencySpy: Another example of magazines looking for ad dollars wherever they can... [FishBowlNY]

NPR Sees Considerable Rise in Listener Numbers - Posted March 24, 2009
Amidst daily talk about the death of news and good reporting and the demise of print newspapers being a threat to democracy as we know it NPR is thriving. WaPo is reporting that the cumulative audience for NPR's daily news programs hit 20.9 million people a week last year, which... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Media Menu: December 11 - Posted December 11, 2008
On today's Morning Media Menu (our newly-launched audio podcast based around the mediabistro.com Morning Newsfeed and mediabistro.com blog network) we have a guest! FishbowlDC's Patrick Gavin joins us to discuss the NPR layoffs (a story he broke yesterday), also on the table the slimming down of Newsweek, and how some people... [FishBowlNY]

Today's Roundup: Layoffs Hit NPR, AMI Near Bankruptcy - Posted December 10, 2008
Looks like the layoff wave has rolled into NPR. Despite reaching "near-record audience levels on-air and online," NPR has announced that due to the current economy and a shortfall in corporate underwriting they are laying off 7% of their workforce and cutting expenses: "A total of 64 filled positions... [FishBowlNY]

NPR News Team Escapes Assassination Attempt in Baghdad - Posted December 1, 2008
The focus may have been elsewhere this weekend but things are still dangerous for reporters in Iraq. NPR reports that their team in Baghdad narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday after a hidden "sticky" bomb exploded underneath their parked, armored BMW. According to NPR the team was warned... [FishBowlNY]

NPR Taps NYT's Vivian Schiller As President and CEO - Posted November 11, 2008
NPR announced today that after an eight month search they have named Vivian Schiller President and Chief Executive Officer, effective January 5, 2009. Schiller comes to NPR from The New York Times Company where she is currently serving as Senior Vice President and General Manager of NYTimes.com. Per the... [FishBowlNY]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted May 13, 2008
All Things Considered -- Except This One Thing: Margaret Wappler has a funny post on The Guide about the Grateful Dead refusing to grant NPR permission to use one of their songs unless they promised to do a piece on the band on All Things Considered. Drew Barrymore Victim of Hit... [FishBowlLA]

Margaret B Jones, Margaret Seltzer, Peggy --Aw to Hell With It! - Posted March 4, 2008
Motoko Rich owns the Peggy Seltzer story, and don't even think of nabbing a tiny bit of it. Rich writes about the deep thinking that went on at Riverhead. They all knew about the author's various names: Ms. Seltzer told her editor and her publisher that she wanted to use the pseudonym... [FishBowlLA]

Sundown on Sunset: Hot and Cold - Posted October 26, 2007
Daniel Hernandez covers the fires down in San Diego, and asks all the right questions. Britney's mom, Lynn Spears, has written a parenting book. Title search for How to Raise a Drug-Addled Skank is underway. Who did buy Luke Ford's other blog? NPR should just hire Joe Escalante, already. Paris... [FishBowlLA]

Heller Says Goodbye to CBGB's Hilly Kristal - Posted August 31, 2007
Hilly Kristal, founder of the recently-shuttered CBGB, died this week, and the "rock midwife" and "original to the end" is being remembered everywhere from the Village Voice to NPR. But we like Steven Heller's memory best. Heller designed a newsletter for Kristal's first tavern called "Hilly's Gazette" and tells a story about... [UnBeige]

News You Don't Want To Miss: Tuesday RoundUp - Posted May 29, 2007
From the annals of "All News Is Local" come some of the top stories to hit our inbox. Well, the top stories that aren't about 11-year-old boys shooting giant pigs: NPR: Day to Day interviews Mia Farrow about Bush's sanctions against Sudan. Your guess is as good as ours. CNN: A Venezuelan TV... [FishBowlLA]

Once-Reluctant LA Times Now Eager to Speak About Hate Crime Coverage - Posted February 23, 2007
If you've been following the Long Beach Halloween hate crime story and the media coverage of same, there's another story in the LA Weekly by an FBLA editor. On the Media did an interview that made the powers-that-be at the Los Angeles Times so distressed that an editor placed several frantic... [FishBowlLA]

Once-Reluctant LA Times Now Eager to Speak About Hate Crime Coverage - Posted February 23, 2007
If you've been following the Long Beach Halloween hate crime story and the media coverage of same, there's another story in the LA Weekly by an FBLA editor. On the Media did an interview that made the powers-that-be at the Los Angeles Times so distressed that an editor placed several frantic... [FishBowlLA]

Rising Star Finalists - Posted February 6, 2007
After the jump, you'll find the finalists for FishbowlDC's Rising Star competition. Congrats to everyone for being nominated and making it into the 2nd round in our first "Rising Star" competition. The winners will accompany mediabistro.com and FishbowlDC to the National Press Foundation Dinner, with a seat next to a high-profile... [FishBowlDC]

I'd Like To Thank The Academy, And NPR, For Giving Me This Honor - Posted January 25, 2007
We all secretly have our Oscar speeches in our heads, don't we? Along with our moms, and our deities and our third-grade teachers, we'd use the airtime to make a romantic or meaningful offer of thanks to someone unexpected. Or maybe we'd use the limelight to really stick it to Tracy Schindler for... [FishBowlLA]

Off the Media: Liberal, Censor-Avoiding Apples - Posted January 17, 2007
This week from On the Media we learned that: Co-host Brooke Gladstone is willing to joke about her liberal self. In a story about how conservative bloggers (the "right-o-sphere") are being skeptical of their skepticism of the mainstream media's Iraq war coverage: "Some conservative bloggers, mired in the ugly truth about the war... [FishBowlNY]

Where'd Borat Go? - Posted January 16, 2007
It happened a few days ago -- or maybe it happened months ago and we just hadn't noticed. But Sacha Baron Cohen decided to drop the in-character interviews about Borat and just ... be himself. When Baron Cohen won the Golden Globe (Wow. We're not used to saying that.) for best comedic... [FishBowlLA]