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With grants from PBS and editorial support from series producers, eight stations are testing new approaches for connecting with local audiences.
Glass hopes the low threshold for giving could get more listeners to become donors.
“I don’t know how they’re going to find a church big enough to hold the mourners,” said Nina Totenberg, her friend and colleague.
Schachter was previously VP for news at WNYC.
The job change is part of a management restructuring that elevates Mike Sauter to GM of WYEP.
Podcasts have been a “huge return on investment for us and a major growth engine for our business,” says NPR CFO Deborah Cowan.
Simensky is now Head of PBS Kids content, a new position.
Ballard helped launch the station, then WUCM, in 1964.
The station is facing “severe cash flow issues,” according to a statement from its board of directors.
By providing more support to emerging filmmakers, EP Chris Hastings aims to bring more exposure to their documentaries and to World.
Nancy Barnes’ remarks during the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference left staffers feeling “uncertain about the direction of this newsroom,” they wrote in a letter to Barnes.
Cunningham has held the position on an interim basis since January.