Year: 2018
California’s KVCR lays off 35 staffers as it scales back local production strategy
“Going forward we generally want to mitigate production risk," said interim GM Keith Birkfeld.Readers share 2018 highlights and hopes for next year
What made your 2018 special, and what's your wish for 2019? Here's what our readers said.For his WBEZ podcast, a storyteller shares the spotlight to profile people ‘in a big ...
“I’ve done plenty of talking about my own troubles,” Shannon Cason said on the debut episode of "The Trouble." “But I want ...‘Creative financing,’ local partnerships boost Rocky Mountain Public Media capital campaign
The campaign is supporting RMPM's new headquarters, with a planned opening by March 2020.NYPR President Laura Walker to step down in June
Walker cited “new opportunities” that prompted her to leave, including pursuing a university position and “starting her own venture.”Alaska station’s forums ‘break down walls’ between community members
The winner of Current's Local That Works contest, Alaska Public Media's "Community in Unity" events tackled topics including racism, immigration and incarceration.Radio pioneer Larry Josephson turns to creative community for support
"I have to ask my friends for help so I can keep on working and … producing," says the man known as ...Langner rises at Public Media Co., Terwelp to head Aspen Public Radio, and other comings ...
CEO Marc Hand will focus on PMC's Public Media Venture Group.KEET leader says CPB is pressuring California station into merger
David Gordon said KEET will work with CPB, PBS and members of Congress to save the station.Emily Donahue leaves Austin’s KUT for public-relations post
Formerly news director at the station, Donahue will join Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence firm.OETA’s fundraising group asks court to intercede in disputes with station
The OETA Foundation's petition reveals acrimonious conflicts over everything from content production to management of CSGs.We couldn’t have covered these top stories of 2018 without you
And your year-end donation helps ensure that we can keep following harassment and workplace climate issues in 2019.‘The World Is Yours’: How the travelogue shaped early public broadcasting
The globetrotting quality of public media is neither new nor politically neutral and has roots in the earliest days of American broadcasting.If public radio’s smaller stations vanish, we all lose
"The ice is melting beneath our feet with the current business model," writes a station leader.WXXI to take over local alt-weekly
Station President Norm Silverstein said the deal “helps WXXI to better serve our community."
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