What are the advantages of NPR?
by A look at the advantages of National Public Radio (NPR), and why the noncommercial public broadcaster matters.
Tag: radio
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 for bankruptcy. For …
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 that those over …
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) has shown that …
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 old-fashioned AM/FM radio …
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 Tell Me,” “Ask …
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 according to a …
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 82. Kasem is …