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Dead air

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: January 25, 2010

Last week, liberal talk radio network Air America announced it would go off the air. Was it just another victim of the struggling economy, or were there other factors at play?
At its core, Air America was an experiment in how the left could counter the right’s hold on talk radio, and as Marketplace’s Amy Scott [...]

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Goodbye, hello

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: December 30, 2009

It seems no one is particularly sad to bid 2009 adieu, after the financial crisis, terror threats and swine flu took their toll, but we found some creative ways to say goodbye and some exciting ways to look ahead to 2010.
NPR’s Morning Edition reports on a shredder stationed in New York’s Times Square, where [...]

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We’ve got the beat

By Laura Hertzfeld | Published: November 5, 2009

From stock market charts to music parodies, the economy definitely has some rhythm, and maybe that’s why a few new projects that are taking music as an inspiration, both literally and figuratively, as public media covers the economy.
A big “ewww!” was my first reaction to this week’s PRX EconomyBeat podcast, which takes us [...]

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