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Leigh Giangreco is a freelance reporter based in Chicago. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Politico, Smithsonian Magazine and Bloomberg Citylab.
Open to women, nonbinary professionals and men of color, the seven-month program also aims to reshape leadership ranks in pubmedia.
The 40th-anniversary reairing of the DPTV documentary “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” builds on years of outreach to local Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Stel Kline, a transgender journalist who began hosting “Morning Edition” at SDPB last fall, was told they were “not objective” and had “a problem with authority.”
“One thing that … is really important is not to frame the work we’re doing as farmers versus environmentalists,” says Executive Director Sara Shipley Hiles. “I never want to see that headline or that framing on the story. because I don’t think that’s accurate and it’s not helpful, either.”
The three-year grant program backs five stations as they build digital platforms, sponsor intergenerational music collaborations and rethink the definition of jazz.
The two-year grant is part of a more ambitious plan to raise the profile of the NPR podcast on race and identity.
“We wish we could have got a lot more,” said Local 1220 Business Manager John Rizzo. “This was the best deal we could attain with the company. And it’s a fair deal.”
The station announced Friday that it removed 45 articles from its websites that violated editorial standards.
While some stations are welcoming the show, other programmers are wary of furthering public radio’s relationship with for-profit producers.