Author: Mike Janssen
Looking to get in listeners’ pockets
A growing number of public radio stations can now be found on mobile devices, their signature icons wedged between Angry Birds and ...Chris Lydon returns to Boston airwaves as WGBH-FM contributor
Former radio host Christopher Lydon will return to the Boston airwaves as a weekly contributor to Boston Public Radio, a daily local news/talk show ...Panel discussion focuses on public media’s role in presenting arts to Americans
A Feb. 20 Public Media Futures Forum in Washington, D.C., brought together public media funders, presenters and programmers in a wide-ranging discussion ...Current Reader Survey closes on Friday
Current has come a long way in the past two years, but we haven’t stopped thinking about how much more we’d like to ...Supervisor of Pacifica elections points to flaws in system
The elections supervisor for the boards of Pacifica’s five radio stations has recommended that the network revamp its process for selecting board ...Pacifica policy to keep enemies off boards draws ire
The Pacifica National Board passed a resolution barring individuals who have clashed with the network’s leadership from election to the boards of ...Dana Davis Rehm to leave NPR due to restructuring
Dana Davis Rehm, NPR’s senior v.p. of marketing, communications and external relations, will leave the network May 6 due to a reorganization ...NPR will move production of Weekend ATC to L.A.
NPR announced today that this summer it will move production of Weekend All Things Considered to NPR West, its production center based in Culver ...WXXI broadens reach in seven-year partnership with commercial FM
WXXI and WDKX in Rochester, N.Y., are very different stations serving very different audiences — and that’s a big reason that their ...NPR targets younger listeners with four-city “radiotypes” campaign
NPR has launched a three-month multimedia marketing campaign that aims to increase audience for stations in four markets around the country. The campaign ...Former executive director of Oregon’s JPR sues over dismissal
The former executive director of Oregon’s Jefferson Public Radio has filed a lawsuit against Southern Oregon University and the Oregon University System ...PRX brings ‘mood ring’ of Eastern Europe’s millennial generation to public radio
With Generation Putin: Young People and Change in the Former Soviet Union, a new hourlong public radio special, Public Radio Exchange and producers from ...Houston station boosts security as DJ faces identity theft charge
A volunteer DJ has been charged with stealing donors’ credit card information from a Houston radio station and using it to make ...At 90, pubradio pioneer upholds a literary tradition
Decades ago, Karl Schmidt occupied himself by staging elaborate award-winning works of theater for radio broadcast. At 90, he’s still weaving compelling ...Last chance to participate in Current’s 2013 Reader Survey
Dear Readers, I wanted to take a moment to remind you about Current’s Reader Survey. Not that long ago, Current Newspaper and Current.org ...
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