Talks with NPR's Ben Roe and the BBC's John Evans from the PRPD are now online at the website of the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio.

"If PBS only had a sense of humor and encouraged more independent creativity and originality, its programs would serve audiences far better," writes Lawrence Grossman, in the latest Columbia Journalism Review. The ex-PBS and NBC News president reviews two recent books on public TV, and offers his own prescription for fixing it.