Author: Andrew Lapin
As newsrooms expand, employees at several stations push to unionize
Public media employees have increasingly sought to organize unions during the past two years, spurred by expanding newsrooms, shifting management priorities and ...Monday roundup: Reveal will go weekly; Al Letson pens comic book
Plus: Roger Ebert's hand-picked protege on why PBS's At the Movies reboot failed.New York Public Radio, StoryCorps among 2014 Knight Prototype grantees
A rejiggered phone booth from New York Public Radio, a mobile app produced by StoryCorps and a public-records data tool from the founder ...Friday roundup: IRS simplifies applications for nonprofits; Guy Raz’s cat gets loose (again)
Plus: Lightning strikes twice for Delmarva Public Radio.Wednesday roundup: Rosen criticizes NPR ombud posting; contest calls for tote-bag designs
Plus: Scott Nourse joins PBS Digital, and the Radiolab guys visit Colbert.Free-speech watchdog awards find new home at WGBH
WGBH News has resurrected the annual Muzzle Awards from the ashes of the Boston Phoenix as a stand-alone website with a podcast tie-in.Ange-Aimée Woods, Colorado Public Radio arts reporter, dies at 41
Ange-Aimée Woods, a Canadian journalist who played a key role in the recent expansion of Colorado Public Radio arts coverage, died July ...CIR announces $3.5M in grants for Reveal, promotion for Alvarado
The money will go toward the long-term production of the investigative pubradio show.Hill panel critiques FCC proposal to introduce tiered speeds on Internet
The end of the so-called net neutrality era poses risks to every organization that relies on the Internet, including pubmedia, according to ...Thursday roundup: Sherlock will return, GPB fires employee over vulgar T-shirts
Plus: Ira Glass's salary, and bloodshed at Pacifica's KPFK.WHYY prototypes dashboard to measure audience engagement
An attempt by Philadelphia’s WHYY to measure the impact of its news website has its execs asking bigger questions about the best ...NJTV will move production studios from Montclair State U.
The station has produced its nightly newscast from studios at the university since 2011.Arizona PBS to become ‘teaching hospital’ for ASU’s Cronkite School
The university transfers station operations today from its public-affairs department to its J-school, opening up new possibilities for collaboration.CBC to cut an additional 1,000-1,500 jobs by 2020
Shows that air on U.S. public radio will once again be spared.Susanne Aikman, AlterNative Voices host, dies at 69
Aikman hosted the Native American culture show for more than 20 years, while working as a floor director for Colorado Public Television.
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