In the "good old days," you could read your daily paper and when you were thru, could lay it down and forget about it. Now you get the news "every hour on the hour," whether you like it or not.

The newscast — a short, hourly, multitopic news brief — is public radio's bread and butter. NPR's newscasts are the most-listened-to programming in public broadcasting. They compress an array ...

WTMD-FM, the public radio station based at Towson University, began airing newscasts from National Public Radio yesterday, when it became an NPR member station. The station, heard at 89.7 FM, is no… ...