7 posts and columns on public radio

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Daisey Retraction Sets Online Audience Record for “This American Life”

in Media on March 27 at 9:03 am PT

Not that you’d want to include this sort of thing in any traffic-generation plan, but “This American Life’s” retraction of monologist Mike Daisey’s discredited account of Apple’s Chinese manufacturing facilities brought the public radio show its most online listeners ever in a single week. The episode chalked up almost 900,000 downloads or streams in that time, topping the record previously held by the original Daisey show.

The Failures and Fallacies of Mike Daisey’s Apple Attack and the Media

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?
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Indie Radio God Nic Harcourt Gets a New Gig: Picking Videos for "The Live Buzz"

in Media on September 28, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

For a certain kind of music fan, Nic Harcourt is a rock star. But the former radio DJ hasn’t had a full-time job picking and playing music in two years. So here’s his new gig: Picking and playing music videos for a new site.

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller at D8: The Full, Uncut Interview

in D8 on June 17, 2010 at 3:04 pm PT

At D8, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, a former New York Times (NYT) digital exec,talked with Kara Swisher about the future of radio, the prospects for high-quality journalism and the ways the public radio unit could help create a more powerful network of many stations.

NPR's Honchos Talk Digital at "Think In" in San Francisco (Also, Scoble!)

in News on October 12, 2009 at 6:14 pm PT

Last Friday, National Public Radio top execs came to San Francisco for a “Digital Think In” to pick the brains of some Silicon Valley types about where the public radio icon should go, digitally speaking. While NPR actually has been pretty fast-forward with podcasts and a robust Web site, it still has to think about what social networking means to it and whether a day is coming when broadcasting online will be bigger than offline. Also, what’s up with Twitter?
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Charlene Li and BoomTown Talk Yahoo on KQED's "Forum" Radio Show

in News on November 20, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

If you want to listen to an interesting discussion on what happened with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s leaving his job and what’s next for the troubled Internet giant, well-known Internet analyst and now consultant Charlene Li and I talked yesterday with Forum host Michael Krasny for the “Forum” radio show on San Francisco’s KQED public radio. Click through to hear the show.