Adam Ragusea
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Macon, GA, United States
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Macon Remembers Hometown Music Icon Little Richard
"The Architect of Rock 'n' Roll" is being remembered in his hometown of Macon, Georgia, after he died Saturday at 87. "Little" Richard Penniman created → Read More
Exclusive: Listen to the new ‘Morning Edition’ theme music
"If the new music sounds a bit like it was assembled by committee, that’s because it was." → Read More
Why African-Americans Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches
African-American churchgoers have increasingly disappeared from church pews in recent years. When it comes to predominantly white evangelical churches, the → Read More
Even If You Want To Quit, Smoking Is Tough To Kick
New research from Georgia State University finds the majority of smokers are looking to quit cigarettes. That’s especially difficult in a world that → Read More
Jesse Thorn on the insecurities that inspired his latest podcast
The “Bullseye” host interviewed his favorite interviewers “in an effort to compare notes and find out if I was doing it wrong.” → Read More
Lauren Ober on diving deep into the world of podcasts with ‘The Big Listen’
The host of the WAMU/NPR show discusses her audience and the kinds of voices we need more of on podcasts. → Read More
Could the auto-transcription service Trint be cheaper?
We ask the founder of Trint if he could drop prices and pursue a more volume-based business model. → Read More
‘The Pub’ #95: Sarah Alvarez on how to serve low-income people
The former Michigan Radio reporter’s new nonprofit offers renters in Detroit actionable information about their properties, texted right to their phones. → Read More
End of CPB funding would affect stations of all sizes
Service cuts and adjusting budgets can only go so far, says Station Resource Group co-CEO Tom Thomas. → Read More
‘The Pub’ #94: What the #$%^ does ‘narrative’ even mean?
“Only A Game” senior producer Karen Given tries to define the often misunderstood approach to reporting. → Read More
Podcasting Has Become the Last Refuge of Scoundrels
We listened to Bill O’Reilly and Jian Ghomeshi’s new podcasts so you don’t have to. → Read More
‘The Pub’ #93: Where will all the spectrum auction money go?
The billions that noncommercial stations won isn’t enough to transform the entire public media system, but it will absolutely transform the handful of stations lucky enough to have held valuable spectrum in crowded markets. → Read More
Bernie Sanders’ New Podcast Is a Hit on iTunes. Also, It’s Awful.
The show is almost as intellectually lazy as it is technically incompetent. → Read More
5 things you need to know about threats to CPB funding
The likelihood of total defunding seems slim — but public media would surely see some changes if support really were cut. → Read More
‘The Pub’ #91: What would actually happen if they defunded CPB
And a sitting CPB board member discusses why the corporation should be defunded. → Read More
ThinkProgress editor Zack Ford on how public radio covers LGBT issues
“I don’t really care if NPR comes off as politically biased one way or the other, because what I care about is that people’s lives are on the line and that the truth is on the line.” → Read More
‘The Pub’ #90: The ThinkProgress writer who said NPR is ‘favoring anti-LGBT perspectives’
This week on our podcast, one of the most pressing journalism questions of our time: How do we represent views that we may find reprehensible and/or irrational? → Read More
60dB’s founder on why short can win the battle for earbuds
Former NPR tech reporter Steve Henn explains how his new audio app aims to get listeners out of their bubbles with short-form content from a wide range of sources. → Read More
How questioning journalism’s role post-Trump got Lewis Wallace fired
“I made a decision that was very personal, very based on my own instincts about what was right and necessary in this kind of scary political moment.” → Read More
How three services for recording remote audio interviews stack up: ipDTL, Zencastr and Ringr
Our podcast host has tried out all three services and runs down the pros and cons of each. → Read More