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Vox.com co-founder Melissa Bell will lead Chicago Public Media
Bell, who co-founded Vox.com in 2014 and became publisher of parent company Vox Media in 2016, will take the helm at CPM ...WUNC to end its music stream and HD2 service
Radio listening trends and economics are too challenging to justify acquiring a terrestrial signal for the Triple A music service, says GM ...CPB backs new journalism desk for Alaska’s stations
The two-year grant funds four new reporter positions and three shared editors.Growing costs, falling sponsorship fuel wave of layoffs in pubmedia
Current has tracked more than 400 jobs lost to layoffs or buyouts since March 2023, including at operations as different as NPR, ...New Wisconsin Public Radio station honors late Executive Director Gene Purcell
WEPP, which will begin broadcasting Thursday on 90.7 FM in Rice Lake, Wis., gets its call letters from Purcell’s given name, Eugene ...Detroit PBS lands $7.5M matching gift as it plans new campus
Detroit PBS revealed May 30 the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation will match up to $7.5 million as the ...Nebraska Public Media receives donation of online news sites
NPM is engaging with freelance writers who have covered arts and culture in the Omaha area to resume publishing online content later ...San Francisco’s KQED eliminates 34 positions
The station is also ending its podcast "Rightnowish."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 ...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.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 ...CapRadio, endowment at odds over proposed PBS KVIE merger
The Capital Public Radio Endowment Board argues that the best future for CapRadio would be a merger with the TV station.CPB grant funds Nielsen Local Dashboards for PBS member stations
The Nielsen Local Dashboards are expected to be available to member stations beginning in late May and will show them “local market ...NPR CEO won’t attend House hearing on allegations of bias
A meeting of NPR’s board of directors, Maher's first since joining the network, was scheduled for Wednesday more than a year ahead ...Orlando’s WMFE rebrands as Central Florida Public Media
Research had found weak brand penetration in the community beyond the station’s existing audience, said GM Judith Smelser.
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