Theoretically, one risk of projects like this is that they have "distriibuted responsibility," because contributors aren't personally responsible for consistent quality, comprehensiveness and balance.
The incentives have to be effective. You could…
Posted on Current.org Nov. 20, 2009
Ruth Seymour, who built a successful but insistently idiosyncratic Los Angeles station and Internet music source with go-it-alone intuition, announced this week she’ll retire at the end of February. She’s 74 and…
Readers write: a letter to the editors of Current
Nov. 13, 2009
To the editors:
I have just completed two terms, a total of six years, on the NPR Board. It's been a ride. Here are a couple of observations I take with me:
Station managers, as man…
As PBS children's series Reading Rainbow exits the PBS satellite feed
August 28, and worried content officers wonder about the possibility of
alternatives, WHYY tells Current there already is a working model for a
contest – the WHYY I Like
This Book…
PBS feeds and broadcast rights end Aug. 28, PBS and WNED announced recently.
Only Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood have had such long lives among PBS children's programs.
Why did it last? Why is it ending? What matters about it?
Would love to chat but I have a feeling our communications folks will want to give first dibs to Daniel Jacobson or Zach Brand, since they're the brains behind the API rollout. Check in w/ Andi Sporkin's office and see how they'd want to do it.