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February 16, 2007

NPR Rough Cuts

NPR Rough Cuts is a new NPR program, aimed at younger listeners, being developed in public. The site's been up for five weeks. This is a new level of transparency for NPR. Lee Hill from the show is at the meeting I'm at and just said that the show's staff keeps referring to the listeners as "users," which I take as a good sign... [Tags: npr radio media roughcuts transparency ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at February 16, 2007 11:15 AM

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Well, sort of... Rough Cuts is actually the name of the blog that serves as the proving ground for new shows. Michel Martin's new show is its current occupant - that show targets women and people of color. The younger-audience news show hasn't started piloting on Rough Cuts yet; that'll come later this spring as Michel's show graduates to radio+Web rather than just web. -andy

Posted by: andy carvin | February 16, 2007 04:49 PM

D'oh. I actually knew that. Fingers typing faster than the brain is writing.

Thanks for the correction and clarification, Andy.

Posted by: David Weinberger | February 17, 2007 11:51 AM

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