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CPB’s American Graduate initiative has set its sights on targeting dropouts, but another project in public media, Ed Zed Omega, is zeroing in on “rise-outs” — students who are excited to learn but feel that high school is failing to meet their needs.
Maryland Public Television is getting a new tenant on its broadcast tower: Verizon. That makes four clients leasing space on MPT’s 480-foot tower, reports The Daily Times in Salisbury, Md. Others are the American Red Cross, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Salisbury Police Department. “The wireless industry is expanding and people want this activity,” George Beneman, technology v.p. at MPT, told the newspaper. “You need to have the capacity to handle all those calls.
StoryCorps’ Historias project will house its archives of more than 2,000 audio recordings within the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at University of Texas at Austin. The collection will be the only complete archive of Historias interviews apart from the comprehensive set at the Library of Congress, the university said in the Nov. 1 announcement. The decision to provide the collection to the university grew out of an early partnership between Historias developers and Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, associate professor in the school of journalism, who oversees the Voces oral-history project on Latino contributions to World War II, which is part of the library’s website. Once cataloging and digital preservation are complete, Historias interviews will be available to researchers on-site, probably by spring 2013.
The Nine Network of Public Media in St. Louis kicked off a yearlong construction project on Tuesday to build the Public Media Commons, an interactive “urban space” in the city’s midtown district. Designed to be a “powerful expression” of the future of public media, the Public Media Commons is a pedestrian-friendly and interactive space that will give visitors the opportunity to view content on wall-size screens as well as curating content via interactive and touch displays. The community space will also have concert space and public art including a digital “tree.”
The Nine Network’s partners include the University of Missouri-St. Louis and St.
NPR continues reorganization of its executive ranks with two senior hires announced today by President Gary Knell. Emma Carrasco takes over Dec. 3 as NPR’s chief marketing officer Dec. 3, a new position. Carrasco has 30 years of experience in advertising, branding, digital, promotions, communications and media.