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The recession has been bad to NPR, as it has been to most media outlets. But it has been remarkably good to one small piece of the public radio network: Planet Money, the blog and podcast operation started last fall to explain the complexities of the global economy to a suddenly-interested...

It's a baffling phenomenon: As the job market for journalists has gotten worse and worse, enrollment in journalism schools has gone up and up. How to explain this? As it turns out, there's a fairly simple, if surprising, explanation: As bad as things are in the media industry, j-school grads are,...

A listener to public radio's business show "Marketplace" might get the impression that the quirky half-hour program is an anarchic affair held together with rubber bands and chewing gum. But people who know Executive Producer J.J. Yore say the truth is quite the opposite. Yore, 52, was one of the...

The sound of keys clacking is not the only sound at Los Altos Typewriter and Business Machines. The cash register is also clanging merrily through an economic downturn. At Los Altos and many typewriter shops around the country, the old reliable typewriter is making a comeback.There are lots of...

During a recent pledge drive, Terry Gross, host of NPR's Fresh Air, urged listeners who couldn't afford to donate to Philadelphia's NPR affiliate to hold onto their money. Looks like people heeded the public radio star's advice since WHYY failed to meet its fund-raising goals. The problems at the...

When National Public Radio cuts staff, as it did Wednesday in announcing that it is cutting 7% of its work force, it's bad for everyone. Or at least everyone seeking to know what's going on in the world around them. Media aren't exempt from the recession, and newspapers across the country have been...