Author: April Simpson
All-female panel at Non-Comm convention calls for gender equality in music radio
The all-female panel suggested ways station leaders and others can change their work and mindsets to be more inclusive and supportive of ...NonComm panelists describe risks and rewards of putting hip-hop artists into rotation
Programmers said they have a mission to introduce listeners to music that challenges them.New NPR mentorship program aims to address ‘a very particular diversity issue’
The pilot program pairs 10 mentors with 10 mentees throughout the company.NPR begins lobbying push to improve legal climate for music stations
The initiative will be announced Tuesday at the annual Non-COMMvention in Philadelphia.NPR employees ask board for transparency in response to harassment scandals
A meeting at NPR’s headquarters this month was the third consecutive board session where employees spoke about harassment fallout.CPB names Jan Schaffer as ombudsman
Schaffer founded the J-Lab journalism institute and has taught media entrepreneurship and social journalism.Commerce Committee sends on nominations of two CPB Board members
If approved by the Senate, Ruby Calvert and Laura Gore Ross would serve on the board until 2022.With new MPB offering, donors can support pubmedia through credit, debit purchases
Mississippi Public Broadcasting is the first public media organization to work with Softgiving, a financial technology company that lets donors round up ...Why hasn’t pubmedia held one big pledge drive?
A public TV programmer sees an opportunity for public media to raise awareness about its uniquely noncommercial mission.Seattle music station KEXP receives its largest gift ever
Building relationships with donors through a capital campaign led KEXP to a $10 million bequest.Public broadcasters, nonprofit media receive grants to use Hearken and GroundSource
The Community Listening Engagement Fund awarded $241,000 to subsidize costs of platforms that help newsrooms integrate journalism into their communities.Public TV pioneer Chalmers “Chuck” Marquis dies at 91
Longtime friends and colleagues remember Marquis as public television’s man on Capitol Hill.Mississippi legislature wants to cut funding to state public broadcaster by 2024
Mississippi Public Broadcasting's executive director says the network will seek to reverse the plan.With new building, Rocky Mountain Public Media aims to become a center for community, pubcasters ...
The Denver-based statewide radio and TV network has raised 75 percent of its $30 million goal, including $14 million over the last ...Peace Corps alumni, drug safety groups press NPR to release Daniel Zwerdling’s investigative report
The two-part story on the anti-malarial drug mefloquine had been scheduled to air in late November 2017.
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