Development
ACLU fundraiser looks to public media for guidance
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Organizers sought input from public media consultants on best methods for encouraging mobile giving and fundraising on television.
Quick Takes
Public TV painter Bob Ross appears in online video game
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Ross is a skin for the “Smite” character Sylvanus, one of the game’s gods.
Development
WGBH finds authenticity, strong visuals boost response to Facebook Live fundraising
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WGBH tested the platform in June and December 2016 by bringing viewers behind the scenes with live pledge segments of up to 30 minutes.
People
“It’s a pay-it-forward mission” and other reasons why people work in public media
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We collected these expressions of support for public media at the APTS Public Media Summit.
Development
PBS test of social media fundraising raises little but teaches lessons
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The pilot explored whether a social fundraising platform could enhance pledge by providing a new stream for “microtransactions.”
People
NPR completes board expansion, Savage leaves WBAA and other comings and goings
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Global banker Jeff Sine joins the NPR Board.
Programs/Content
A eulogy for Free Speech Radio News
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“Its great editorial strength was always its emphasis on boots-on-the-ground reporting by people who really knew the textures of their communities.”
Programs/Content
NPR to consolidate digital teams in Washington
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NPR Digital Services will move from Boston to D.C. this fall.
System/Policy
Maryland congressman aims to defund NPR, ITVS
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“We could put an end to funding permanently through statute,” says Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.). “And it’s probably time to do that.”
podcasts
PRX creates podcast playlists for guests of Cambridge hotel
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The hotel also commissioned an episode of the podcast “The Memory Palace.”
History of public media
How President Johnson set the stage for passage of the Public Broadcasting Act
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Only eight months after LBJ called on lawmakers to support his bill creating CPB, the measure passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #94: What the #$%^ does ‘narrative’ even mean?
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“Only A Game” senior producer Karen Given tries to define the often misunderstood approach to reporting.
People
Tom Karlo: We need public media now more than ever
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Karlo began his career at KPBS in San Diego 44 years ago.
Quick Takes
NPR sports commentator Frank Deford signs off
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Deford has delivered commentaries on NPR since 1980.
Quick Takes
University rejects Louisville Public Media bid for WNKU simulcaster
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LPM had offered $3.5 million in cash and $1.5 million in other services.
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
How NPR’s Research, Archives & Data Strategy team is saving sounds of the past for the future
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NPR’s audio archive is not a history book, but history is “etched in the voices that gave these decades their vitality.”
Quick Takes
Omnibus bill bumps up FY17 funds for Ready To Learn and arts endowments
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Votes are expected before the end of the week.
Quick Takes
Survey finds strong opposition to cuts in arts, pubmedia funding
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The research also found that 37 percent “strongly disagree” with President Trump’s desire to stop funding entities including CPB.
System/Policy
At town hall meeting, Va. pubcaster shares plans for spectrum auction millions
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Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corp. will invest the $182 million in expanded community service and a foundation to “promote public media.”