Andrew Beaujon
May 22, 2013
9:13 am
Adam Cole is not an "Arrested Development" superfan: "I have friends who are much more into it than I am," the NPR reporter said in a phone interview. But Cole took a scientist's eye to the cult television series, which will be resurrected Sunday after its 2006 cancellation.
Cole's employer, NPR, presented his data Friday in an insanely complex news app called "
Previously, on Arrested Development." The app lets you delve into, say, how many times Tobias "giggles ambitiously," or do a deep dive into
Buster and missing limbs.
- A selection from the graphic.
Cole originally envisioned a static graphic, saying that "I didn’t think I would bring this to work. I thought it would be a fun thing." But he added that when Netflix announced it would revive the series, "I was like, 'Wow, this is as good a peg as I’m ever gonna get.' "
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André Natta
May 18, 2013
10:16 am
Rachel Larris of Name It Change It posted a story about changes made to a profile of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand that originally aired on May 16 during NPR’s Morning Edition.
The original story, among other things, referred to the New … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
May 6, 2013
11:40 am
Kickstarter |
Current.org |
Baratunde Thurston
Donors to Planet Money's
crowdfunded project to report out the life of a T-shirt have contributed more than five times the amount of cash the program hoped to raise in a Kickstarter campaign. In its pledge, the program says it will:
...Meet the people who grow the cotton, spin the yarn, and cut and sew the fabric. We'll ride on the cargo ships that bring our t-shirt from factories in Bangladesh and Colombia to ports in the US. And we'll examine the crazy tangle of international regulations which govern the t-shirt trade the whole way.
With eight days to go, the NPR show's campaign has raised more than a quarter-million dollars, far beyond the $50,000 goal it set at the project's outset. Donors who pledge $25 will receive a T-shirt, which features a squirrel holding a cocktail.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 23, 2013
1:43 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 16, 2013
7:39 am
NPR |
The Atlantic |
Mashable
Late Monday,
messages from the "Syrian Electronic Army" began appearing on NPR sites, Mark Memmott reports.
The hackers, "an organization that's said to support Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime," Memmott writes, defaced headlines and text in some stories, and some Twitter accounts were compromised.
Another message said "you can ask @deborahamos" for an explanation of the attack. NPR's Deborah Amos has done extensive reporting about the conflict in Syria and in the course of her reports has told of the hard toll the fighting there is taking on the Syrian people.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 4, 2013
10:42 am
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Joshua Gillin
Apr. 1, 2013
11:14 am
Neal Conan, the host of "Talk of the Nation," didn't use the "R word" when talking about
the end of his 11-year stint on the call-in radio show.
"While I will definitely be changing my life after I leave NPR, I would not describe the next phase as 'retirement,'" he wrote in an email to Poynter. "I will want to catch up on eleven years’ sleep, but expect to remain engaged in public life as a writer, speaker and, who knows, maybe on the radio."
Conan did not go into detail about NPR’s decision to end production of “Talk of the Nation” and encourage member stations to pick up WBUR’s “Here & Now” instead. He did note, however, “the decision to cease production on TOTN was not mine.”
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Joshua Gillin
Mar. 29, 2013
3:16 pm
Kinsey Wilson, executive vice president and chief content officer for NPR, clarifies some of reasons why
"Talk of the Nation" is headed off the air and is being replaced with lesser-known newsmagazine "Here & Now."
He said in a phone interview Friday afternoon that while it's time for NPR's programming to evolve, that's not a slight against "Talk of the Nation," which first began in 1991.
"They really sort of set the standard for call-in shows. They are at the top of their game. Over time, many shows have used that model and adapted it to their needs [in local markets]," said Wilson, a Poynter trustee. "There's a lot of abundance in that category. What's not in abundance are shows like 'Here & Now.' There's a real appetite on the part of listeners, program managers and member stations to bridge the gap in our programming."
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Joshua Gillin
Mar. 29, 2013
12:56 pm
NPR |
WBUR |
The New York Times
"Talk of the Nation," the Monday through Thursday afternoon staple of NPR hosted by veteran Neal Conan,
will end its 21-year run this summer, the organization announced Friday morning.
NPR is pushing its member affiliates to replace the show with an expanded, two-hour version of "Here & Now," produced by Boston's WBUR, from 2-4 p.m. Eastern. That show's Robin Young will gain a co-host, "Marketplace Morning Report"'s Jeremy Hobson, and "add a total of six people to produce the expanded show," the
Boston public radio station's Curt Nickisch writes. The switch begins July 1.
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 25, 2013
2:41 pm
NPR officially moves into a new headquarters in Washington, D.C. today, five years after it
bought the property and began planning for the move.
NPR had been based in a narrow triangular building in the Mt. Vernon Square neighborhood since 1994. The new headquarters is a historically preserved, four-story warehouse from the 1920s, joined with a new seven-story office tower on North Capitol Street. It offers
much more space, including "a two-story open newsroom with broadcast and production studios," as well as
views of the Capitol.
The historic NPR sign was relocated to the new building Monday morning.
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