Current's The Pub

On this week’s episode of The Pub, public radio Conor Gillies and host Adam Ragusea debate whether podcast ads are a threat to public media's integrity. Gillies wrote an excellent and widely shared piece last week for The Awl, “Podcasts and the Selling of Public Radio.” Also on the show: This American Life host Ira Glass responds to the response to his remarks about capitalism, and I respond to the response to the response Is PBS’s plan to offer on-demand video to donors a violation of everything public media stands for? WSKG’s Teresa Peltier and KLRU’s Sara Robertson discuss what young professionals are looking for in a public media workplace