Author: Mike Janssen
Mike has held the role of digital editor since 2014. Before becoming editor, he covered public radio and digital initiatives in public media for Current. Mike has also written for a variety of publications as a freelancer, was a Public Media Corps fellow, and has hosted talk and music shows on community radio stations in the Washington, D.C., area. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing banjo, cooking, and making coffee and cocktails.
Grad student teams up with Missouri’s KBIA to measure decibels in noisy city
The sensor-journalism project will allow for heat maps and other visualizations of noise levels in Columbia, Mo.By Mike JanssenFebruary 6, 2014Focus on collective impact highlights pubTV’s role as community convener
Stations work with local partners to identify challenges faced by their communities and to coordinate outreach. Our first in a series about ...By Mike JanssenFebruary 4, 2014PBS examines successes in public service among stations
As some local pubcasters have started to forge paths toward models of public service developed through their own strategic planning or in ...By Mike JanssenFebruary 4, 2014On the clock: Stations lobby NPR for changes to timing of newsmags
Public radio leaders are discussing how and whether NPR can give stations more freedom to reuse its newsmagazine segments and more opportunities ...By Mike JanssenJanuary 27, 2014In times of crisis, FM chips in smartphones will better serve public
Disasters strike every year in every corner of America. Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard, ice storms in the Midwest ...By Mike JanssenJanuary 22, 2014NPR names new v.p. for member partnership
NPR has promoted Gemma Hooley to v.p. for member partnership, succeeding Joyce MacDonald, who has been assigned new responsibilities in sponsorship and ...By Mike JanssenJanuary 21, 2014KPCC bolsters newsroom, Babes of NPR blogger joins pubradio, and more comings and goings in ...
Southern California Public Radio/KPCC in Los Angeles has bulked up its news department in recent months, adding eight staffers to its team ...By Mike JanssenJanuary 15, 2014Love of cheese leads to new career for former pubradio exec
Chris Kohtz is no longer in a position to tell you about portfolios of programs available for airing on public radio stations. ...By Mike JanssenJanuary 14, 2014Stations’ concerns prompt Metropolitan Opera to sanitize airing of Die Fledermaus
The Metropolitan Opera agreed to tone down indecent language in its Jan. 11 broadcast after radio station leaders warned that they would ...By Mike JanssenJanuary 10, 2014Grants, donations to NPR support expanded reporting, app for personalized listening
NPR has lined up $17 million in grants and individual gifts to expand two beat-reporting units and to complete development of an ...By Mike JanssenDecember 15, 2013Seidel, Malesky and Carvin taking NPR buyouts, will exit by year’s end
NPR news executive Stu Seidel and librarian Kee Malesky have accepted buyout offers from NPR, and social media strategist Andy Carvin has ...By Mike JanssenDecember 2, 2013Lydon returns to Boston’s WBUR with new weekly show
Boston’s WBUR announced today that Christopher Lydon will rejoin the station to host and produce a weekly hourlong show, Open Source with Christopher Lydon. ...By Mike JanssenNovember 20, 2013NPR’s Slocum honored for leadership and service to public radio
The Public Radio Regional Organizations presented the annual PRRO Award Nov. 13 to NPR Chief Administrative Officer Joyce Slocum, whose five years ...By Mike JanssenNovember 18, 2013NPR urges FCC to help stations dislocated by spectrum auction
NPR has asked the FCC to consider reimbursing broadcasters for the costs of any antenna relocations that may result from the upcoming ...By Mike JanssenNovember 15, 2013CPB to support more collaborative journalism projects
CPB will devote $2.5 million to reporting projects spearheaded by stations and national producers, President Patricia Harrison announced Nov. 12 at the ...By Mike JanssenNovember 15, 2013