Year: 2024
San Francisco’s KQED eliminates 34 positions
The station is also ending its podcast "Rightnowish."Marcia Smith, president of Firelight Media, plans to step down
Smith co-founded Firelight Media with filmmaker Stanley Nelson.How public media can help shape ethical AI voice technology
Following the controversy over OpenAI's "Sky" voice, public media must aim to build tools that are imbued with cultural richness and represent ...RRC President Joanne Church dies at 75
With her late husband Tom, Joanne Church "introduced audience research to public radio" by founding RRC in 1981.Boston’s GBH lays off 31 staff due to $7M budget gap
GBH is also suspending the shows "Greater Boston," "Talking Politics" and "Basic Black" but plans to “reinvent” them as digital-first programs, said ...Larry Bensky, correspondent and anchor for KPFA and Pacifica, dies at 87
“Larry's brand of journalism — personality along with in-depth reporting — was a model for countless reporters and hosts coming up in ...Wife of lawmaker critical of Arkansas PBS joins network’s governing board
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced May 6 she had appointed Maria Sullivan to the Arkansas Educational Television Commission.NPR, stations object to proposed FCC rules on reporting outages
More filing requirements would strain already limited resources, the broadcasters said in comments to the commission.Public eye on NPR spurred editorial additions, says Chapin
With NPR in the news, questions circulated about what the network wanted to do and what would be helpful, said Editor in ...Comings and goings: GBH News GM Pam Johnston to step down, Radio Bilingüe announces staff ...
Pam Johnston has worked as GBH’s GM of news since 2020 after years of working for “Frontline.”New MPR initiative aims to ‘make news more approachable’ for younger audiences
With Reverb, "we want to reach as many people as possible and explain it in a way that is easy to understand ...It’s time for public radio to fix problems in its foundation
Like homeowners who delayed plumbing repairs to their mid-century modern house, public radio needs to act now to renovate its broadcast-centered revenue ...Four more public media stations receive Next Generation Warning System funding
Two of the stations serve Indigenous audiences.April CDP Index: High-dollar giving boosts revenue in early 2024
Along with high-dollar giving, a stable sustainer population for radio stations and a growing sustainer pool for TV stations and joint licensees ...NPR will add 11 staff to ‘strengthen’ editorial team
“We need new structures that enable us to see across the entirety of our journalism and think about our overall coverage strategically,” ...