Bostonist sends a hearty congratulations to Rebecca Watson, of Brookline, for winning the Public Radio Talent Quest. Watson will have the opportunity to produce a pilot to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Watson was one of the top three winners out of 1,500 contestants. She joins Al Letson, of Jacksonville, FL, and Glynn Washington, of Oakland, CA. Weekend America did an interview with all three. Although three people won, Watson came in first, and deservedly......

When the Public Radio Talent Quest was announced in April, Public Radio Exchange and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said they were looking for the elusive quality of "hostiness." A woman from Brookline has proven that she has the "hostiness." Rebecca Watson has risen to the top five out of a field of 1,500 contestants to be a new public-radio star. Watson blogs at skepchick.org, and her proposed show is based on that site. The......

Public Radio Talent Quest is live and taking submissions and your vote. Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have teamed up and are giving away $70,000 and a shot at creating your very own radio show. The contest opened on Monday and is taking entries from radio wannabes. They host the entries and feed them to the team of judges. Oh, wait, did we say team? We meant everyone who visits......

NPR is sometimes seen as the "gold standard" of broadcast radio, and Bostonist thinks the same could be said for webcasts. The On Point with Tom Ashbrook podcast contains the same content that can be listened to on WBUR. Bostonist likes being able to listen to it when and where we want. On Point is a news show that delivers everything you could want from a news program. The show takes a close look at......

The basics and the business wraps up today. Busy webcasters will likely retire after the reception this evening to their video camera or microphone and their favorite editing software package and put together a file they’ll enclose in a post on their blog before the sessions get up and running tomorrow. Today, April 28, is the first of two days of the Spring Podcast Academy hosted here in the Hub by Boston University College......

SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff "World's Funniest Tazer Videos" and the possible cancellation of their pervs' "World's Grossest Bathroom Videos" and PBS trains cams on cows at, uhg, Mootube. Also,......

With the air outside dropping steadily this December, it’s hard to remember how cold it seemed last Wednesday. As the damp wind whipped through our city’s streets, Bostonist hustled down Landsdowne St. to get to the Avalon for a night with Iron and Wine and Calexico, and was greeted with a warm reception. At this point, midway through Calexico’s set, the temperature in the ballroom was considerably higher than outside, thanks in no small part......

Morning Stories is one of the oldest podcasts today and the first public radio podcast. With this show on the web not long after the term podcast was coined, Tony Kahn beat many people to publishing online. Morning Stories is a collection of weird, interesting, and engaging stories from people's lives. Tony Kahn bring these stories to an audience to help them see how other people live and to tell their life stories. Tony Kahn......

When elected leaders make extra time to hear the concerns of well-heeled campaign contributors, Bostonist doesn't bat an eye. After all, politics is not a field from which we expect, um, ethical behavior. But when the amount of cash donated corresponds to the number of Red Sox tickets given to the donor, civic duty requires that we cry foul. Today's Globe reports that the Republican Governors Association will give four roof deck tickets for......