Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
NPR concedes, Omaha plays offense
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NPR CEO Katherine Maher told the Medill Local News Initiative she's not sure public radio should even be trying to get federal CPB...
The Savannah Philharmonic seeks Chief Executive Officer
The next Chief Executive Officer will drive a forward-looking vision that integrates artistic excellence with meaningful educational and community impact.
Colbert’s Late Night Replacement On CBS Pulls Small Ratings
According to The Daily Beast, even Colbert's YouTube channel is nearly outperforming Allen's show. Colbert's appearance on the public access TV show "Only in Monroe" drew...
How Have The Great Pyramids Survived Millennia Of Earthquakes? By Design, Of Course
“The Great Pyramid behaves as a single, cohesive unit that naturally vibrates at a fundamental frequency of approximately 2.3 Hz. The frequency difference prevents...
Spotify Has Become A Huge Player In Audiobooks
Spotify announced that the total number of hours of audiobooks listened to on the service are up 60% year-over-year, with one million people having paid...
Opera Is Being Reinvented In The Australian Outback
Song has always been a part of storytelling in our country. And perhaps, in remote towns, opera finally sheds the elitism that has followed...
Hollywood Largely Skipped Cannes This Year. Did Anyone Miss Them?
Whether you were a sales agent eyeing a leisurely buyer’s market or a freelance journalist picking up fewer interview commissions than usual, this felt...
The Economics Of Late Night TV Are Moving To Streaming
Roughly 20% of lost late night dollars ends up going to YouTube, data insights company Guideline found last year, with 6% going to Amazon...
The Special Kind Of Knowledge That Can’t Be Taught
It’s not the kind of knowledge that you gain from reading a textbook or listening to a lecture, nor is it the kind of...
NYC Culture As Basic City Infrastructure
Right now, culture represents just 0.21% of the city’s budget, below its long-term average. Recent investments have been meaningful, including $75 million in last year’s...
AI Is Homogenizing Our Writing And Our Thinking
Yes, we are standing to sound like LLMs in our writings. This may not be as bad if this was just restricted to how...
NPR Lays Off Journalists
NPR has laid off 10 journalists, including some veteran reporters, in an attempt to save money and reorganize the newsroom. It also is buying...
When Cutting the Cord Pays Off
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Watch the money this morning. Three arts institutions on two continents are rewriting survival, and none of them is doing it a traditional...
Miles Davis’ “Kind Of Blue” Is The Best-Selling Jazz Album Of All Time. He...
When I tell people that I missed what I was trying to do on Kind of Blue, that I missed getting the exact sound...
Eyewitness Memory Is Unreliable. Or Is It?
The science of memory has been shifting. A re-evaluation of real-world criminal cases and laboratory experiments suggests that an eyewitness’s confidence in a specific memory can...
Spanish Government Demands Audit Of Reina Sofia Museum Collections
Spain’s government is turning up the pressure on the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory,...
Sonny Rollins As Revolutionary Force
Some musicians evolve, others effect personal revolutions. Rollins is in the latter category, and his work bears the shuddering force of his drastic, self-imposed...
Movie Box Office Memorial Day Weekend Disaster Averted
Studio insiders told TheWrap they were projecting $190 million for the four-day weekend, well below last year’s holiday weekend of $330 million. But Monday...
The Savannah Banana Phenomenon: What It’s Becoming
The Disney comparison is not necessarily a coincidence. Multiple players mention an overlap between Disney fandom (including Disney adults) and bananaball fandom, and Jesse Cole,...
You Couldn’t Design A More Anti-News Internet If You Tried
It’s like an invisible tax levied on our communities that we pay civically, cognitively and sometimes even literally, in the form of higher local...
Spotify: Our AI Pivot Is Better Than Slop
Spotify’s chief executive has defended the company’s move into AI-generated music, claiming it offers users and creators a better alternative to piracy and unregulated...
A 2018 Fire Destroyed 80 Percent Of Brazil’s National Museum Collection. It’s Working To...
The fire on September 2, 2018, began with an electrical issue, but it spiraled out of control when the hydrants next to the building proved...
Remembering Sonny Rollins
He was the last of the Mohicans1 — an essential piece of jazz’s midcentury-modern picture, the only surviving subject in Art Kane’s iconic yearbook photograph A...
Why Has The World Stopped Making Babies?
Some blame technology, particularly smartphones and social media. Others blame a kind of 21st-century weltschmerz—a sadness about the state of the world and our uncertain...
CBS Paramount Drops Copyright Claim Against Colbert After Parody Show
CBS and parent company Paramount have backed away from efforts to limit reposting of Stephen Colbert's mock appearance as host of a Michigan public...
