Mediagazer: As Sedaris walks line between real and ‘realish,’ NPR is left in the middle (Paul Farhi/Washington Post)

1:15 AM ET, May 15, 2012

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

As Sedaris walks line between real and ‘realish,’ NPR is left in the middle — Public radio has been good for David Sedaris, and vice versa. In 1992, the then-unknown writer started to turn tales about his quirky upbringing and odd-job work history into the stuff of hilarious, and golden, memoir.

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Jesse Angelo says things at his iPad news app, The Daily, are ‘going great’ — About two weeks ago, The Daily embarked on a bid to expand its mobile readership by launching an iPhone edition. How's that been going so far for the 15-month-old News Corp. tablet tabloid?