Mike Janssen, Author at Current

Attendees at a SXSW panel Saturday got a look at how NPR uses website and social media metrics and shares the information among its journalists — those who want to know, at least.

Our guide to public media events at SXSW

By Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | March 12, 2015

Check our list of pubmedia-related sessions — and let us know if we missed yours.

Weekly roundup: Infinite Dial, low-power FM, native advertising

By Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | March 6, 2015

And more links and news you might have missed this week.

Friday roundup: Diane Rehm’s right-to-die advocacy, Pacifica perpetually on the brink, and more

By Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | February 20, 2015

Plus: grants, HD Radio and public radio in classrooms.

‘I AM LAKSHMI SINGH’: How an NPR newscaster became a hat and meme

By Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | February 17, 2015

A WNYC producer hopes for the union of Lakshmi Singh and the hat she inspired.

The first of our new improved weekly roundups — now with more content

By Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | February 6, 2015

This week: the Congressional Downtown Abbey office, new conferences, digital wisdom and more.

Texas’s KEDT builds on alliance with local college

By Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | January 22, 2015

One of the smallest independent public broadcasting operations in the country will move into new facilities this fall under its expanding partnership with a local community college. For more than 40 years, KEDT-TV/FM in Corpus Christi, Texas, has been housed in a strip mall in what was originally meant to be a temporary location. Its unusual agreement with the city’s Del Mar College preserves its independence as a community pubcasting licensee while allowing the two institutions to share content and a state-of-the art broadcast and production facility, the new KEDT Center for Educational Broadcasting. Under construction after a ceremonial groundbreaking last fall, the center will be located on a prime site adjacent and connected to Del Mar College’s Center for Economic Development, and offer amenities such as an outdoor performance plaza wired for live broadcasts. The two institutions have plans to work closely together on content going forward, in addition to sharing the space and digital television equipment.