Kara Swisher in News on May 11 at 8:15 am PT
Waiting for a verdict in trial of ResuMess.
Liz Gannes in News on May 11 at 4:30 am PT
Ever wonder what Terry Gross does after she wraps up her “Fresh Air” show on NPR and ever-so-sincerely thanks one of her guests?
Arik Hesseldahl in Media on March 18 at 6:06 am PT
Now we have to start the conversation about Apple and Foxconn and workers’ rights all over again, this time with real, verifiable facts at our command. Is that so much to ask?
As long as the newspaper was a bundle, no one ever had to care that people were buying it for radically different reasons. But once you go online, and people can unbundle things, where you can traffic directly to a story without going through the home page or any of the rest of it, suddenly what it — the individual choices made by individual readers come to matter a lot.
– Clay Shirky, on NPR’s Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan
News Byte
Liz Gannes in News on November 28, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
Historian Richard Rhodes wants to make sure Hedy Lamarr stays famous for more than just her looks. His
new biography of the actress, out Tuesday, highlights her lesser-known scientific and intellectual side. In 1941, Lamarr was co-inventor of a “spread-spectrum radio” system, designed to better guide World War II torpedos while evading detection by randomly switching frequencies; it wasn’t used at the time, but became a precedent for modern wireless communications. Here’s an
interview with Rhodes, from NPR.
News Byte
Ina Fried in Media on October 2, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT
National Public Radio on Sunday tapped Gary Knell, the longtime CEO of Sesame Workshop, as its next chief executive.
Knell, who starts Dec. 1, fills a post formerly held by Vivian Schiller, who
resigned in March.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 1, 2011 at 10:11 am PT
Former National Public Radio head Vivian Schiller, who left her last job under a political cloud, looks to have found a new position. She’s in talks to work at NBC News, where she’ll oversee digital projects.
Kara Swisher in News on March 9, 2011 at 10:21 am PT
Today, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned after a series of borks–including a sting video in which the public radio’s top fundraiser insulted the Tea Party activists and the fumbled firing of commentator Juan Williams.
Oh dear.
Well, the former New York Times exec was pretty good at moving NPR into the digital age, at least.
“Can you put food on the table with music? Probably not. I see music as a really great hobby for most people in five or 10 years. I see everybody I know, some of them really important artists, studying how to do other jobs.”
– Cake lead singer John McCrea talking to NPR, via Digital Music News. Showroom of Compassion, Cake’s most recent release, is the lowest-selling number-one album of all time.
Kara Swisher in News on February 8, 2011 at 12:23 am PT
Here is my appearance yesterday on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” where I pontificate about AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post.
My take: News is the winner!
Which is
just what I’d say.
