Year: 2016
A guy who knows his fundraisers wants you to support Current
TJ Lubinsky, creator of some of public TV’s most successful pledge-drive shows, tells you why Current is “invaluable” to public media.KQED staffers grapple with grief as they cover Oakland warehouse fire
Losses in the Ghost Ship fire hit close to home for some in the Bay Area’s public media community.Seven stations join first round of PRX podcast bootcamp
Five of the shows are already in production.NPR’s Story Lab will assist with development of 10 audio projects
The network’s second Story Lab Workshop gives participants the opportunity to receive training and mentoring.Community radio’s role is to train journalists, not police contributors’ personal lives
WORT’s reporters follow a code of ethics but are free to support causes they care about.What WHYY learned from launching a podcast for kids
“Make sure you have resources to devote to marketing. There is no such thing as a great podcast with no listeners.”Knight Foundation to match gifts to nonprofit news and public media outlets
“There’s no better way to battle misinformation and false information than with really good reporting.”Siefken takes lead at Rogers Co., ‘1A’ forms crew, and other comings and goings
Siefken is VP of broadcast and digital media at The Fred Rogers Co.NPR gets failing grade for website security in survey of HTTPS encryption
The network says it is working to make improvements.Rocky Mountain PBS pairs student film with discussion about suicide
The 17-year-old’s short documentary will lead into a conversation about preventing suicide.WNET will end production of ‘Religion & Ethics’
The show premiered in September 1997.How NPR One data points to new ways of thinking about local content
The app’s acting managing director breaks down what NPR is learning about the performance of newscasts, podcasts and feature stories.DuPont-Columbia awards recognize outstanding journalism, and other awards in public media
Public TV’s “Frontline” received a duPont for its reporting on Syria and Iraq, including the program “Children of Syria.”With Made Here initiative, Vermont PBS homes in on ‘locally sourced’ programming
The initiative aims to put more Vermont in Vermont PBS.Spanish-language multicaster Vme will soon drop public TV service
The channel is transitioning to commercial cable.
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