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And that’s the way it was: February 22, 1924

Calvin Coolidge broadcasts the first presidential radio address to the American public

If Barack Obama is our first social-media president, then Calvin Coolidge rightly deserves to be called the first wireless-telegraphy president.... More

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And that’s the way it was: March 12, 1933

FDR broadcasts the first of his “fireside chats”

Sunday, March 12, 1933. Over the radio, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaks to the nation for the first time. It... More

CJR Rewind: NPR Amps Up

Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?

This story originally ran in the March/April 2010 issue of CJR. If I were writing this story for All Things... More

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Denmark launches new public radio network

Radio24syv hopes to challenge old stalwart DR

On a Friday afternoon in November, Denmark’s latest experiment in public broadcasting had only been up and running for two... More

Norman Corwin, 1910-2011

Remembering a recently deceased broadcast pioneer

It was only fitting that I learned of Norman Corwin's death from the CBS Radio World News Roundup, a program... More

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UN celebrates World Radio Day

Journalists and UN officials discuss why radio remains popular around the world

Wednesday, World Radio Day, marked the 67th anniversary of the United Nations's first broadcast--"This is the United Nations calling the... More

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Inside Google’s secret lab

A tweetable feast

We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table

How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business

“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”

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David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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