Ivy Kaplan, Author at Current

Journalism initiative aims to re-energize local coverage around the country

Three public broadcasters and the nonprofit newsroom Mississippi Today will host reporters from the program’s inaugural class.

The new show Beta is the first production spawned by WPR Next, an initiative to generate new programming ideas.

APMG is recruiting a full-time mental health reporter and will integrate coverage of mental health issues into podcasts and on its music stations.

A series of interstitials will introduce emergency responders to help children better understand common procedures in emergencies.

Grossman, who died Friday at the age of 86, backed expansion of “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report” and was involved in launching “Frontline.”

Journalists in both public and commercial TV will be able to workshop ideas with the journalism school’s faculty and its TV station, Arizona PBS.

The series will feature authors, celebrities, athletes and other public figures sharing their favorite fiction books and interest in literacy.

The station run by New York City’s Riverside Church aired interviews with Malcolm X and sermons by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Callouts, virtual station tours and diverse sources of web traffic are among the strategies public media newsrooms are adopting.

The project aims to better serve Minnesota’s large Somali community with translations and BBC audio.

The series tries to take a more optimistic look at getting older.