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WNYC plans new podcasts in push to build on successes
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Indies aren’t the only public radio producers to recognize that there’s gold in them there podcast hills.
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Indies aren’t the only public radio producers to recognize that there’s gold in them there podcast hills.
We explore the origins, biases and limitations of the “public radio voice.”
St. Louis Public Radio received a subpoena Jan. 29 from the St. Louis circuit attorney for “all raw and aired video and audio footage” from a local meeting it reported on that turned chaotic. The radio station was reporting on a Jan.
CPB is bolstering its financial support of five regional Local Journalism Collaborations to add video reporting units.
Firelight Media, based in New York, gets $500,000 to expand its reserves and establish an innovation fund to experiment with digital storytelling platforms.
CPB is aware of as many as six public television stations considering going off the air, said Michael Levy, e.v.p., during the meeting, which was held by phone.
Podcasts with public radio connections dominate iTunes podcast charts, so it’s no wonder that podcasting companies are snapping up talented producers who earned their stripes in public media.
NPR has a revamped, mobile-friendly hub for podcasts. But it isn’t done improving its podcast technology.
A public radio and TV CEO shares gleanings from Columbia University’s Punch Sulzberger Program.
Podcasters are creating business plans that are hybrids of unapologetically advertiser-based funding and direct listener support raised via crowdfunding, which in some cases is cultivated as monthly gifts.
Nycklemoe succeeds Alice Recore, who became president in 2003 and retired Dec. 31.
The CPB funds, which are approved two years before being paid out, not only stay at the current level but would include annual increases of roughly 2.2 percent through 2025.
A new digital archive co-created by Louisiana Public Broadcasting contains more than 500 hours of streamable online video, including civil-rights era broadcasts, Louisiana-themed cooking shows and speeches by political leaders. The Louisiana Digital Media Archive went live Jan. 20 after more than five years of development, featuring videos from both public and commercial broadcasters. “One of our missions is to create TV worth watching,” said Beth Courtney, president of LPB and a 30-year veteran of the station. “If we’ve made 40 years of TV worth watching, it’s worth saving.”
LPB inventoried and digitized video artifacts from the civil-rights and World War II eras as part of an American Archives pilot project in 2009, a CPB-funded effort to create a national archive of public television content.
A group of female leaders has formed a committee to address issues of gender inequality in the executive ranks of public television and radio.