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Laura Bush: iPad drawing app inspired GWB's painting hobby

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 25th, 2013)

Today, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is being dedicated on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. David Greene of NPR talked to former first lady Laura Bush about the library as well as her husband, former President George W. Bush, and his new ...

NPR's Planet Money goes behind the scenes with The Magazine

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 22nd, 2013)

Jacob Goldstein of NPR's Planet Money took a look at the economics behind The Magazine, the iPad-only publication created by Marco Arment of Instapaper and edited by Jeopardy champion and Macworld/TidBITS contributor Glenn Fleishman. The Magazine launched late last year with essays from ...

Public Radio Player app redesigned in latest update

by Mike Schramm (Feb 11th, 2013)

Some of my favorite radio programs are from National Public Radio here in the States, including Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion. Fortunately, most of those shows are now available in podcast form, so that's primarily how I listen to them. And of course NPR ...

Marketplace reporter visits Foxconn factory in China

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 9th, 2012)

Marketplace's China correspondent Rob Schmitz is known as the man who uncovered the falsehoods about Foxconn factory conditions being told by Mike Daisey in his play, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. As a follow-up to the report, Schmitz got an inside look at a Foxconn factory in ...

Foxconn won't sue This American Life, Daisey

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 19th, 2012)

Late last week, radio show This American Life retracted an episode published in January that showcased Mike Daisey's performance of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (our review). The show was removed when TAL discovered inaccuracies in Daisey's account, one of which suggested Daisey himself ...

Whoopsie Daisey: This American Life episode on Foxconn's iPad factories 'partially fabricated,' retracted

by Steven Sande (Mar 16th, 2012)

Last month, we reviewed Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs", a monologue in which the storyteller opines on his trip to China and his time with workers in a Foxconn iPad plant. Daisey's story was the basis of an episode of PRI's "This American Life," and now the show has ...

Daily iPad App: NPR Music is a treat for music fans

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2012)

Everyone knows about NPR's quality podcasts, or at least they should. All Things Considered, Car Talk and Whose Line is it Anyway routinely top the charts on iTunes. But I'm also a fan of NPR's music. They do a great series of podcasts called All Songs Considered, and they often release great live ...

TUAW's Daily iPad app: NPR 2.0

by Mel Martin (Jul 8th, 2011)

NPR has rolled out a rather hefty update to its venerable and well-liked iPad app. As before, the app is kind of a digital magazine that mirrors the content mix on NPR, with world and U.S. news, the arts and music features. The iPad app is more fully featured than the NPR app for the iPhone, ...

Malcom Gladwell discusses Steve Jobs with NPR

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 17th, 2011)

If you missed Malcolm Gladwell's article, Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Truth about Innovation, in the May 16 issue of The New Yorker, then you should tune into a recent episode of NPR's All Things Considered. In this seven-minute interview, Gladwell talks about Steve Jobs and his now ...

Holiday cooking with your iPad: be safer while you sauteé

by Erica Sadun (Dec 16th, 2010)

Flour belongs in cookies, not on your iPad. The same goes for butter, wine, eggs and oil. Your kitchen may be a treasure trove of cooking essentials, but iPads and food should never directly mix. That's why this cooking with your iDevice radio story over at NPR gave us a moment's pause at TUAW ...

Woz gets quizzed on Wait Wait

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 13th, 2010)

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is something special. He has an uncanny wit and carefree personality that makes everyone smile. His latest foray into the public spotlight found him as a guest on the NPR program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! In the show, host Peter Sagal quizzes celebrities, asking them ...

Are morning commuters using iPhones to listen to NPR?

by Keith M (Aug 20th, 2010)

Although your car has a fully-capable AM radio, and you're an NPR listener, do you find yourself jacking your iPhone into your car stereo and listening to NPR through its app instead? New data released from NPR seems to indicate that's what a lot of people are opting to do. According to its data, ...

Choose Your Own Adventure available for iPhone as U-Ventures

by Mike Schramm (Aug 19th, 2010)

If you, like me, were a big scifi/fantasy reader at a young age, you probably remember the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series. It was a series of books in which, every chapter or so, you could make a choice that affected the story, and you were then prompted to turn to a certain page to continue the ...

"Wait Wait" goes after the iPad

by Michael Rose (Apr 11th, 2010)

We love Peter Sagal and the gang, but they certainly jumped ugly with the iPad on this week's episode of NPR's quiz show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me. In a segment of fake confessions from public figures, announcer Carl Kasell stood in for Steve Jobs and admitted "It's just a big iPhone without the ...

NPR, WSJ prep Flash-free sites for iPad

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 17th, 2010)

Both National Public Radio and the Wall Street Journal are preparing Flash-free iPad sites in time for the device's April 3rd debut. MediaMemo cites a blog post over at NPR, letting us know that NPR fans can either download an updated app for NPR (once the iPad ships and the app is ready), or ...