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NPR offers ‘takeaway’ news audio

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National Public Radio (NPR) has added a nifty button to its online news articles that lets you download audio content on that item.

Certain features are excluded because of rights issues (for example, stories referring to exclusive music tracks), but this simple addition is a nice cross-over between NPR’s wealth of audio content and its website.

It’s also more flexible as it doesn’t require users to listen to a whole programme and can be downloaded as an MP3 for listening at leisure. Minkšti ir pinti baldai ekoseses.lt

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@SOE: (Audio) WAN president Gavin O’Reilly slams UK media commentators

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Gavin O’Reilly, chief operating officer of Independent News and Media and president of WAN, launched a stinging attack on senior media commentators in the UK while speaking at the Society of Editors meeting in Manchester.

Listen here to some of his concerns and other points of his speech:

Failings of media commentators: too much rhetoric, overly simplistic digital vs print approach…

[audio:http://www.journalism.co.uk/sounds/oreillyone.mp3]

Failures of US print papers, threat of reader apathy biggest threat not internet, real reasons for state of UK market – freesheets and enticements, search engines and ACAP…

[audio:http://www.journalism.co.uk/sounds/oreillytwo.mp3]