jackandjillpolitics.com - 12/11/2008
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This is terrible news, and I’m still trying to figure out what exactly is going on. I first heard from Jasmyne Cannick . The basics are that NPR is hurting financially (projected $23M budget shortfall this year up from an estimated $2M). This is due to reduced corporate underwriting, reduced ...
huffingtonpost.com - 12/10/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
NPR Interim President & CEO Dennis Haarsager announced
plans to reduce 7% of its workforce and cancel...
two shows, "News & Notes" and "Day to Day" in a memo to staff Wednesday afternoon. The memo outlines NPR's financial difficulties and explains the rationale for eliminating 64 employees and ...
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NPR Announces Layoffs, Show Cancellations
npr.org - 12/10/2008
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npr.org —
David Folkenflik NPR.org , December 10, 2008 NPR
News announced Wednesday that it is canceling two daily...
radio programs Day to Day and News and Notes as part of a broader effort by the company to close a projected budget shortfall of $23 million for ...
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NPR Announces Cuts To Staff, Programs
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NPR cuts black issues program
Feministing —
Jack and Jill Politics reports that NPR has axed News & Notes. Yeah, times are tough -- programming cuts are understandable. But this is a serious blow. Baratunde writes,
Yet I can't help but think that now, of all times, is not the time to cut any sort of programing that brings intelligent discourse to black issues. Couldn't they have cut that weird news quiz show, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, instead? I mean, really?
Jasmyne Cannick has contact info to write NPR and ask them to make budget cuts elsewhere. ...
NPR cancels News & Notes, Day to Day, and lays off dozens
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... MSM, and News & Notes would have enabled more healthy discussion in the progressive community by reaching those listeners. There is a good article about the history of black programming at NPR here.
I had the pleasure of being on News & Notes only once, this past May, to discuss minority representation among bloggers going to the Democratic National Convention and the inability of the GOP to recruit minority candidates.
Baratunde Thurston at Jack & Jill Politics: News & Notes has been an absolutely ...
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