"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #100: Why stations should help employees relocate
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Should public media be offering more help to its greener employees to avoid creating a class barrier?
Programs/Content
Chris Thile tunes up for second season of ‘Prairie Home’
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The upcoming batch of episodes doubles the new host’s stage time.
Programs/Content
Public TV show breaks out family photos for ‘people’s history’ of Detroit
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“There’s this connection between the family images that we choose to keep and the feeling attached to them.”
Programs/Content
Among Steve Bannon’s filmmaking oeuvre, two documentaries sought a public TV audience
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Now in a White House aiming to defund public broadcasting, Bannon was an executive producer of films produced by former CPB exec Michael Pack.
Programs/Content
Producer reveals how disciplined story planning, authenticity made ‘Serial’ shine
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At Third Coast, the producer of the smash-hit podcast candidly described the problems that hindered its second season.
Programs/Content
Money, politics become catalysts for audio at Third Coast 2016 audio conference
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As companies like Audible throw more resources into podcasts, radio producers are wrestling with what modern America sounds like.
Programs/Content
‘Radio Ambulante’ joins NPR distribution as network’s first Spanish-language podcast
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The show’s reporters will contribute to other NPR programs as well.
Awards
Personal narratives about mothers make strong showing at Third Coast Awards
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The Gold Award went to “Mariya,” a personal narrative by writer Mariya Karimjee from Radiotopia podcast The Heart.
Programs/Content
Shell-shocked by Trump win, public radio’s politics all-stars share thoughts on election coverage
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“How can we do the job of reporting truth without being dismissed as polemicists?” asked moderator Bob Garfield.
Programs/Content
What’s Chris Thile planning? New ‘Prairie Home’ host shares vision for show
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Producer American Public Media is hoping to pull off a “Leno to Fallon” transition with the host.
System/Policy
As Philadelphia newspapers turn to nonprofits, who is ‘public media’?
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The arrival of a new institute expands the city’s “vibrant economy” of publicly supported journalism.
Programs/Content
‘American Masters’ pursues Latino audiences with events, social media efforts
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The push centered on a documentary about influential photographer Pedro E. Guerrero.
Programs/Content
For first time, podcasts beat traditional radio at Third Coast awards
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The Radiotopia podcast collective made the biggest splash, taking home three awards.
Programs/Content
Spiegel: New ‘Invisibilia’ season won’t premiere until at least spring 2016
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“Doing these kinds of shows takes a really long time,” said the show’s co-creator.
Programs/Content
CBC, PRI hope to leave past behind as Shad settles into host chair at ‘q’
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With a new voice and lower-case title, the Canadian network is updating its most popular export to the U.S.
Documentaries
AFI honors Stanley Nelson, public TV’s ‘filmmaker of black experience’
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Though Nelson didn’t particularly take to that title.
Quick Takes
Tuesday roundup: Alex Blumberg records his start-up; Personal Audio prepares for trial
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Plus: PBS is added to Amazon Fire TV, and NPR’s Bob Boilen shares concert tips.
People
Plane crash claims lives of two WXXI board members, major donors
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Two major donors and board members of Rochester, N.Y., dual licensee WXXI died Sept. 5 after their plane crashed in the ocean off the coast of Jamaica. Both were 68. Larry and Jane Glazer, major figures in Rochester’s business community who both served on WXXI’s board and co-chaired the station’s $17 million Go Public capital campaign, were flying their single-engine plane from Rochester to Naples, Fla., when their aircraft became unresponsive. Larry, a registered pilot, was at the controls.
Programs/Content
NPR adds social components, stand-alone site to Local Stories Project
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After launching with one station in 2011, the social media–driven project now has 36 participating stations.
Programs/Content
Times Square’s unlicensed Elmos spell headaches for Sesame Workshop
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Unruly street performers have prompted the children’s TV producer to consider legal action and a city councilman to propose a new law.