What are the advantages of NPR?
Noncommercial US public radio broadcaster National Public Radio (NPR) doesn’t get the same level of vitriol from conservatives as its television counterpart, […]
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iHeartMedia files for bankruptcy
Last week news came that radio giant iHeartMedia (formerly known as Clear Channel until it changed its name in 2014) is filing […]
Millennials, some Gen Xers prefer online news sources over TV
A recent study by Reuters shows that there’s a split along generational lines for how news is obtained. Reuters’ survey (PDF) reports […]
Internet media jobs now eclipse newspaper jobs
Another Internet-related milestone has been reached, this one coming at newspapers’ expense. A study by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) […]
Radio still dominates in cars?
Despite the dominance of streaming audio and digital music everywhere else (ignoring the improbable resurgence of vinyl), there’s supposedly one place where […]
NPR doesn’t want on-air promotion of its own podcasts
NPR’s one of the most popular sources of podcasts online. The public radio broadcaster’s the home of shows like “Wait Wait, Don’t […]
The Internet’s now surpassed radio for music discovery in the US
In the United States, the Internet is now the dominant way of discovering new music, finally topping the decades-old mainstay, radio. That’s […]
RIP Casey Kasem
News outlets are reporting that Casey Kasem, who’d been in declining health for some time, has passed away at the age of […]