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Marfa Public Radio podcast turns dull documents into bedtime fare
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“Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep” featured somnolent readings of the Public Broadcasting Act, NPR’s style guide and more.
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“Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep” featured somnolent readings of the Public Broadcasting Act, NPR’s style guide and more.
Set in Britain and featuring a new cast, the fourth season will bring new twists on oddness and lessons in “maths.”
Our annual look at national programs coming to public television includes 142 series and specials.
“It goes such a long way to hear that news anchor speak just like you,” says host and creator Marquis Lupton.
“Rush to Kill” digs into a complex national story that consumed WFIU’s news team during the last months of the Trump administration.
A CPB-backed initiative helped launch YouTube series produced by stations in Texas, Louisiana and North Carolina, among other locations.
“No matter which direction we start from — event or idea first — we’re striving for the marriage of story and meaning.”
The six-part drama has a “social consciousness that can really appeal to younger viewers,” says Jessica Turk of Nashville Public Television.
“Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life” focuses on what communities can do to eradicate hate and bigotry, says filmmaker Patrice O’Neill.
A familiar broadcaster is hiding in this puzzle’s answers — can you figure it out?
“Public radio is journalism, shows, music, culture. Content is an inexact blob that people in a boardroom can cut to a convenient and profitable size.”
The four-part pilot series will be released on YouTube and the PBS video app.
“To read a justification of your decision to broadcast performances of music by nine different white men of European descent while finding excuses to reject the works of every nonwhite artist on the Met’s season was personally galling.”
The call-in show has attracted about 800 users to the social platform and hopes to help other stations with their own efforts.
The union would include 11 staffers who work on the radio program and podcast “Snap Judgment” and the podcast “Spooked.”
Journalists, newsroom leaders and audiences have roles in building a healthy, trustworthy and respected global news industry.
The show’s cancellation meant that stations have “fewer options to offer our audience during the midday,” said Sean Birch of South Carolina Public Radio.
Grants to seven stations and NPR aim to “fill gaps” in public media’s statehouse reporting.
Recent research found that most of PRPD’s Core Values of Public Radio resonate strongly with today’s young listeners. But study participants defined some values differently.