stories by Manhattan-based radio reporter Jon Kalish

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Podcasting Article in Current Newspaper
Ashley Miln-Tyte is known to public radio listeners for her reporting on the business show Marketplace. She’s featured in a lengthy piece I wrote for Current newspaper about podcasting. Miln-Tyte produces a...

Podcasting Article in Current Newspaper
Ashley Miln-Tyte is known to public radio listeners for her reporting on the business show Marketplace. She’s featured in a lengthy piece I wrote for Current newspaper about podcasting. Miln-Tyte produces a podcast about broads, er, women in the workplace called The Broad Experience. There’s a sidebar in the Current article titled “Not just about the money: Public radio veterans drawn to creative freedoms of podcasting.” Another sidebar focuses on WNYC’s podcast stable.

Fat Bikes and Klezmer Fats

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Listen to a profile of Pete Sokolow, a.k.a. Klezmer Fats. He’s a revered elder in the klezmer scene. This story aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday

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And over on NPR’s Only A Game you can listen to a piece on the fat biking scene in Vermont. .

Accordion Guru of the Lower East Side

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Walther Kuehr checked out on January 2nd, a day after the lease on his Lower East Side accordion shop expired. Listen to an appreciation on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday.

Coming up…

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Kalish reports on the hard cider industry in Vermont. And the fat biking scene. Stories will air on the Marketplace Morning Report and Only A Game.

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Final KlezKamp Begins Today

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Listen to a radio report on NPR’s “Here & Now” this afternoon about the final KlezKamp, which begins today in Kerhonkson, NY. This is the 30th Anniversary of the annual gathering of the klezmer tribes and is sure to be a bittersweet occasion.

Bill Adler’s Hiphop Archive

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Listen to a story on “All Things Considered” about hiphop insider Bill Adler and his archive documenting the growth of hiphop culture. It was acquired by Cornell University’s Hiphop Collection.

Bill Adler’s Hiphop Archive

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Listen to a story on “All Things Considered” about hiphop insider Bill Adler and his archive documenting the growth of hiphop culture. It was acquired and is now part of Cornell University’s Hiphop Collection.

The Podcast Boom

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album art by Neal Campbell

Listen to a story on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday about the emergence of podcasting on the media landscape.

The podcasts mentioned in the story are CraftLit, TWIT, Comedy Button, 99% Invisible and No Agenda.

Rabbi Abulafia’s Boxed Set

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The late Lionel Ziprin hoped to bring his grandfather’s recordings to the world. The 15-LP’s were recorded by the great ethno-musicologist Harry Smith. But Ziprin’s time on this mortal coil was up before he could get the job done. Listen to a half-hour radio documentary about a true Lower East Side Miracle. This is my favorite piece of work from nearly 40 years in radio.

Leo Laporte & TWIT

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Listen to a short piece on Marketplace Morning Report about podcaster Leo Laporte and the TWIT network.

Vitagraph Smokestack

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Read a story in the New York Daily News about a smokestack that served a pioneering silent movie studio in Midwood, Brooklyn. Neighborhood activists are scrambling to try and save the smokestack.

Jacki Lyden’s Fashion Podcast

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photo: Kevin Horan (Lyden is in the center with a white tie around her neck. This 1985 photo was taken atop NPR’s Chicago Bureau. That’s John Hockenberry in the muscle shirt and Scott Simon above Lyden. )

Read a story in Current newspaper about Jacki Lyden leaving NPR. She is starting a podcast called The Seams to cover fashion.

Alpha House Season 2

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Listen to a story on NPR’s Here & Now about the second season of Alpha House, a political sitcom with both “bite and heart.”

Sarah Silverman is the Anti-Kofax

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On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews, Sarah Silverman rehearsed for her hosting stint on Saturday Night Life. Jews are not supposed to work on the Day of Atonement. Read the story I wrote for The Forward about Silverman’s decision to work that day.