Author: Mike Janssen
PRPD offers new round of trainings
The Public Radio Program Directors Association will expand its training programs for stations this year and continue its Sense of Place studies ...Massachusetts’ WFCR adds to capital campaign with Cosby fundraiser
New England Public Radio in Amherst, Mass., got a helping hand earlier this month from a famous friend when listener and local ...NPR to pilot alerts for people with hearing disabilities
NPR will test a system for delivering emergency alerts to individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing in Gulf Coast states under a ...NFCB board dismisses president; v.p. calls decision “a huge mistake”
The board of directors of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters has dismissed NFCB President Maxie Jackson as of March 4. He ...Pubradio backs musical acts at SXSW festival
Public radio will be well-represented at the musical portion of the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, March 13–16. The ...Briscoe no longer at Newark’s WBGO-FM
Thurston Briscoe is no longer at WBGO-FM in Newark, N.J. His last day was Friday. The news was first reported on the ...Pittsburgh Public Media acquires W.Va. FM station for jazz programming
The FCC has approved the sale of a West Virginia college station to Pittsburgh Public Media, a jazz webcaster run by former ...Two Native tribes are first to benefit from FCC rules favoring tribal applicants
Native tribes in New Mexico and Arizona are the first to benefit from the FCC’s Tribal Radio Priority, a provision created by ...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 ...
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