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Former Associate Editor
April Simpson covered funding and innovation for Current from 2016–18. She relocated from South Florida, where she was a freelance journalist and writer for a global development charity. April was a Fulbright fellow in Botswana and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation. April has written for the Seattle Times and the Boston Globe, among other publications.
The Community Listening Engagement Fund awarded $241,000 to subsidize costs of platforms that help newsrooms integrate journalism into their communities.
Longtime friends and colleagues remember Marquis as public television’s man on Capitol Hill.
Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s executive director says the network will seek to reverse the plan.
The Denver-based statewide radio and TV network has raised 75 percent of its $30 million goal, including $14 million over the last year.
The two-part story on the anti-malarial drug mefloquine had been scheduled to air in late November 2017.
Miller is credited for guiding the nine-station network through the digital television transition to increased viewership.
“I don’t want to see confidence in a broken system that allowed dangerous behavior to continue,” said one producer.
Morgan Lewis conducted a two-month investigation into how NPR management responded to harassment allegations against the former news chief.
We checked in with Eliza Lambert, who asked us in 2016 where she should start her public radio career.
The disclosure triggered an investigation by MPR that found Keillor had engaged in unwanted physical contact and inappropriate incidents.
The bill would provide the FCC with an additional $322 million per year in fiscal years 2019 and 2020.
If the program ends, Jimenez will have to return to Mexico, a country she left at the age of two months in her mother’s care.
At least two NPR staffers reported Zwerdling to human resources in November, according to sources close to the investigation.
Friends and colleagues remember Jones as an advocate for living up to public media’s ideals for reaching underserved audiences.
As chief content officer Cappello oversaw both WNYC News and WNYC Studios. Now the divisions are to be managed separately.
WRVO Public Media in Oswego and WBFO in Buffalo are receiving $64,000 and $40,000, respectively.
The Henry L. Hillman Foundation and the Richard King Mellon Foundation have each awarded grants to the nonprofit that operates WESA and WYEP.
A new grant-making initiative will subsidize costs for newsrooms to adopt the Hearken and GroundSource platforms.
A common challenge for stations is managing the data on giving and viewing behavior captured by the on-demand video service for donors.
Allegiance Software, DMW Fundraising and Member Benefits are joining under the banner of the Allegiance Fundraising Group.