By now, many have heard about NPR's outgoing Senior Vice President for Development Ron Schiller railing against Tea Partiers and the need for public funding. But what most don't know is that the comments theaten to derail NPR's massive new social media campaign. READ»
Barely two years after she arrived, Vivian Schiller has resigned from her post as CEO of NPR. What we're looking at, at least in the latter case, is a new kind of political dirty trick: the ACORN-ing or Planned Parenthood-ing, this time of a major news org.READ»
There's a lot of harrumphing around the blogosphere about the New York Times' decision to again put up paywalls for digital access (the last attempt, TimesSelect, was shuttered in 2007). People are gaming out the angles: Have they chosen the right price points at as much as $20 a month? READ»
NPR's always been a kind of hybrid animal existing alongside conventional radio stations in the U.S. But the rise of the Internet has threatened public radio's future just as much as its commercial brethren. So, like all good wild ...READ»
