Comments on: Free Journalism, online?

Question: Free Journalism, online?

grrarrgh00 — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:10:53 -0800

I love This American Life and like Now With Bill Moyers and Frontline. I like listening to these shows while I'm doing mundane tasks around the house. What other audio or video streams of great journalism are available for free online?

By: alex_reno

alex_reno — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:14:43 -0800

The BBC has live streams of all their radio stations, as well as archives of the last week available in an on-demand player. Here.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:23:52 -0800

If you get into music journalism at all, WFMU has archived their old Secret Museum of Air shows which highlight very niche-y musical genres and areas. Some music, some talking, I always learn new stuff. From a more history-oriented perspective, CBC's Lost & Found Sound has some great archived shows that have archival audio mixed with contemporary radio descriptions. Their Stories from Sound Collectors section is very This American Life-ish.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:18:44 -0800

Not free, but Audible.com has some fantastic stuff. I highly recommend Bill Bryson's A Short History of Absolutely Everything and Eugenides' Middlesex.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:09:54 -0800

Hearing Voices on the Radio

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 18:03:29 -0800

Home Truths is what I suspect to be the UK style of T.A.L., hosted by the inimitable national treasure - John Peel.

Not sure if it'll appeal to USians, tho'.

By: herc

herc — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 18:19:32 -0800

I believe Harry Shear's "LeShow" has an online archive. Usually a good listen. Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" also archives their recent broadcasts.

By: inksyndicate

inksyndicate — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 18:32:25 -0800

Le Show is great.

Lot of good videos on CSPAN.

By: mmascolino

mmascolino — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:48:57 -0800

I really like The Connection, so much so that I put together some RSS feeds (self link) for it.

By: j

Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:08:36 -0800

I love this -- more public radio stations than you can shake a stick at.. !
the webpage layout is kind of yucky, but you can reformat a little bit.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:25:12 -0800

B-Side Radio is a young, promising TAL wanna-be. And don't forget there are over 10 years of Joe Frank online.

By: abcde

abcde — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:18:25 -0800

Speaking of TAL, I think they just tragically jumped the shark with the "Promised Lan" show and Ira Glass' song.

By: abcde

abcde — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:19:04 -0800

herc: Actually, Fresh Air has everything back to 2000, not just recent ones.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:09:08 -0800

and dont forget:

http://www.ianmasters.org/