"National Public Radio (NPR) has introduced an API that it says will allow developers to serve up mashups that include audio, images, and full text articles from the non-profit media organization’s archives that go as far back as 1995."

"The BBC will propose sharing regional news resources, including non-exclusive footage, to help ITV with the costs of its regional bulletins, and it will tell commercial radio companies that it is willing to spend heavily to market digital radio."

"Though the BBC’s World Service uses around 15 different technologies to reach its listeners, short-wave is still king: latest figures, published last week, show 105m of its 182m-strong global audience still listen that way."

"However, there’s aspects [of the Express & Echo's coverage] that are far from perfect. The bitty nature of the articles is quite frustrating. Also, every piece is finished with a plug for tomorrow’s echo, where the full story will appear."

"A butcher has been driven radio ga ga after [the Performing Rights Society] told him he was flouting the law - by playing a battered transistor in his Rotherham shop."

Jonna Geary was underwhelmed by Steve Hewett’s item on the Today programme this morning…

The BBC integrates is newsrooms: The corporation’s Radio News, News Interactive and TV News departments "are no more. Instead we have a new system that allows the great strengths of each of our editorial areas…"

Journalists and radio presenters are on the endangered species list, according to Forbes.

"What is troubling about ['future of newspapers'] questions is these people are still trying to define their news organizations according to products that are becoming obsolete. The true question is ‘What will news organizations do in the future?’"

"BBC Radio Five Live has … submitted FoI requests to all 43 police forces in England and Wales, asking how many cases had been recorded last year in which the suspect was under 10."