People
Top marketing exec to exit NPR
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Meg Goldthwaite started at the network in 2016.
People
Comings and goings: NPR promotes two on news team, WTVP promotes Baker …
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Didi Schanche becomes the network’s chief international editor.
System/Policy
Kansas, New Mexico stations will add content to pubcasting archive
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Grants are supporting a digitization project involving stations in the states and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
History of public media
After 50 years, NPR upholds public broadcasting’s founding values
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NPR was incorporated Feb. 26, 1970, marking a new stage in the growth of a public media system rooted in education.
System/Policy
At APTS Summit, Butler says FEMA grant program would be government’s ‘best investment’ in public safety
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CPB has asked the Department of Homeland Security to set aside funds for public broadcasting emergency communications.
People
KOSU names Rachel Hubbard executive director
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Hubbard has been serving as interim director since 2019.
System/Policy
How to fight Trump’s ‘Capitol punishment’ for public media
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When racist radio host Rush Limbaugh gets a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a standing ovation in Congress, Current’s executive director is worried that this year’s lobbying effort may not be enough to save federal funding for public broadcasting.
Programs/Content
New podcast focuses on stories of recovery, with a host who’s been there
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Vic Vela, a journalist and recovering drug addict, hosts Colorado Public Radio’s “Back From Broken.”
System/Policy
Newest journalism hub will expand coverage in Gulf States
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Four stations in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana will form the collaborative newsroom.