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Sound Portraits Productions, led by independent radio producer David Isay, has just posted a study guide to be used in classrooms, along with its “Youth Portraits” series of stories.
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Dottie Talmage, who managed KVNF-FM in Paonia, Colo., for seven years, died Oct. 28 at the age of 51.
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Christopher O’Riley, host of public radio’s From the Top, confesses his admiration of Howard Stern in a Minneapolis Star-Tribune profile.
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Independent radio producer Robin White has a website for his documentary Giving Back the Owens.
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WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., upset listeners yesterday when it accidentally rebroadcast a taped show that included “breaking news” about the start of the area’s sniper shootings.
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Public radio programmers say a new classical music study will help them improve their service to listeners, according to the latest Eastern Public Radio Newsletter.
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The Los Angeles Times reports on the opening of NPR’s West Coast production studios. Hosts Neal Conan and Scott Simon will contribute to NPR’s Nov. 5 election coverage from the new studios.
System/Policy
Zwerdling remains at NPR in new job; tensions still run high
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NPR has promised veteran reporter Daniel Zwerdling another year
of work, but colleagues are still asking what management’s decision
to eliminate his old job signals about the network’s journalistic
priorities. Zwerdling will contribute NPR reports to PBS’s Now with Bill
Moyers, taking a job previously held by Emily Harris. Harris
is NPR’s new Berlin correspondent. Zwerdling can move into another
job if the Now partnership ends, but he says the grant-funded
Science Desk opening pays 25 percent less than his current salary. NPR’s Oct.
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Gwen Shaffer, a former reporter for WHYY, writes in the Columbia Journalism Review about a “partnership” that compromised environmental reporting at the Philadelphia station.
Public Media Policybase
CPB Goals and Objectives, 2002
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors adopted this statement in November 2002, according to CPB. I. Local Services and Content
Strengthen the value and viability of local stations as essential community institutions by improving their operational effectiveness and fiscal stability, and increasing their capacity to invest in and create sustainable services and content that will advance their local mission. To achieve this Goal, CPB will pursue the following objectives:
A. Measure the value of local service as perceived by the intended beneficiaries-Conduct research to understand how various media are used by the audiences stations serve or hope to serve in the future, and how the pattern of use is changing as new platforms and media emerge. Create mechanisms that can be used to evaluate the success of local content and services, and inform the local/national conversation. B. Improve station practices and institutional effectiveness-Assess the performance of individual stations and station cohort groups within public broadcasting to identify opportunities to increase stations’ income-earning capabilities and reduce the cost of current operations through improved practices and new operating and service models.
Public Media Policybase
CPB Goals and Objectives for fiscal year 2003
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors adopted this statement in November 2002. I. Local Services and Content
Strengthen the value and viability of local stations as essential community institutions by improving their operational effectiveness and fiscal stability, and increasing their capacity to invest in and create sustainable services and content that will advance their local mission. To achieve this Goal, CPB will pursue the following objectives:
A. Measure the value of local service as perceived by the intended beneficiaries-Conduct research to understand how various media are used by the audiences stations serve or hope to serve in the future, and how the pattern of use is changing as new platforms and media emerge. Create mechanisms that can be used to evaluate the success of local content and services, and inform the local/national conversation. B. Improve station practices and institutional effectiveness-Assess the performance of individual stations and station cohort groups within public broadcasting to identify opportunities to increase stations’ income-earning capabilities and reduce the cost of current operations through improved practices and new operating and service models.