National Public Radio

One of the festival's most acclaimed events would be in jeopardy, as well as student outreach programs and high-profile guest programming. read more >

In remote and rural areas across the U.S., public radio stations can be a lone source of local news when natural disasters take out power, internet and cell towers. read more >

Dr. Kevin Barnett and Dr. C. Preston Pugh have each served as chief residents in pediatrics at UAMS and at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. read more >

An anonymous benefactor gave a record $1.5 million to University of Arkansas at Little Rock Public Radio, home to central Arkansas’ NPR station, KUAR-FM, 98.1, and the state’s only classical music FM station, KLRE Classical 90.5. read more >

Bobby Ampezzan didn’t learn he was on the firing line till August, but he knew his nonprofit Arkansas Public Media project was in trouble when an 11th-hour appeal for additional national grant money crashed. Spectacularly. read more >

Chuck Plunkett, the Denver Post’s editorial page editor, defied his bosses at Alden Global Capital with a piece headlined “News Matters — Colo. Should Demand the Newspaper It Deserves.” read more >

Newsroom colleagues at Arkansas Business Publishing Group applauded our 2017 summer intern, Sam Hoisington of Arkansas Tech University, for landing a plum internship at the Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington. read more >

A recent panel of broadcasters noted several milestones, including the 50th anniversary of legislation funding the CPB, the 50th year of AETN and the 60th anniversary of KASU, the state’s oldest public media outlet. read more >