Author: Karen Everhart
Closing of news bureau leaves regrets, questions
There was no shortage of ideas for keeping Capitol News Connection afloat. CNC’s stock in trade was chasing down politicians for local legislators’ ...State aid down $85 million in four years
In four years that include the deepening recession, fiscal 2008 through 2012, public broadcasting stations in 24 states have lost a total ...Western stations ask for new election to fill McTaggart’s seat on NPR Board
When a candidate wins re-election but withdraws from service before taking office, does the electorate get another chance to vote? Given the irregular ...APM chief McTaggart, seen as competitor, leaves NPR Board
American Public Media’s president, Jon McTaggart, won re-election to the NPR Board this summer but won’t be taking the seat after all. McTaggart ...News leaders draw hard line on employees’ public comments
Update, Nov. 10: The NPR Board postponed considering the ethics policy scheduled for its Nov. 10-11 meeting. Spokesperson Dana Rehm said work ...Knell: familiar with dynamics
NPR’s next president already knows how a strong production house can continue to work with pubcasting stations — and also expand its ...Producers invited to crowdsource the translation of their programs
Universal Subtitles, a project of the nonprofit Participatory Culture Foundation, is looking for long-form public media projects to translate into multiple languages ...Public radio ‘dancing at the edge of change’
There’s some heavy-duty soul-searching going on in public radio. The Public Radio Program Directors conference, Sept. 20–23 in Baltimore, sidelined its usual ...Localore: matchmaker for innovation
Two years after its Makers Quest 2.0 project tapped independent producers to stretch the creative boundaries of public radio, the Association of ...WBUR finds ROI for stores in underwriting
Looking to expand the pool of companies that place underwriting spots on public radio stations, Boston’s WBUR unveiled results from its first-ever ...Deals with schools give Rhode Island two new public radio signals
New England pubcasters are preparing for a major expansion of public radio services in Rhode Island through partnerships with schools that have ...Two news competitors in deficit, so one buys the other in Buffalo
Talks exploring a union between two major public broadcasters in western New York state will culminate with the $4 million sale of ...Subsidies lost, urgency gained
As public broadcasting braces for expected cuts from its most predictable revenue source — the annual CPB appropriation — system leaders are ...Life without CPB aid scary to LJC startups
The seven Local Journalism Centers that launched with major support from CPB have suddenly found themselves on a short timeline to find ...After scandal, fundraisers debate ethics
Having witnessed the damaging one-round knockout of NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller in March, public radio’s development pros are working to adapt the ...
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