Invisibilia
NPR: ‘There will be more Invisibilia episodes’
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NPR’s plan for Invisibilia expected to be shared with station managers in late April.
Michigan Radio
PodScanning: New podcasts take up issues of race and identity
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Two new podcasts launch about issues of race at St. Louis Public Radio and Michigan Radio.
Programs/Content
Political fact-checking website finds first pubmedia partner in California
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The first-of-its-kind partnership launches this summer.
NPR
NPR extends contract for new underwriting voice
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Jessica Hansen, NPR’s new voice of its underwriting credits, will continue through, at least, June.
Programs/Content
AIR announces new round of Localore projects, ‘Finding America’
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AIR aims to observe and serve communities not being addressed by public media.
Quick Takes
St. Louis Public Radio subpoena dropped
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The circuit attorney for St. Louis will drop a subpoena that had sought audio and video recorded by station reporters during a contentious City Hall meeting in January.
People
Cephas Bowles, former CEO of New Jersey’s WBGO, dies at 62
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Bowles was senior executive of WBGO-FM from 1993 to 2014.
Programs/Content
PodScanning: Highlighting new podcasts and industry news
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In this new column, we’ll feature new podcasts popping up in the public media space or produced by pubmedia alums and news about the podcasting industry.
FCC
Former Nashville radio station finds new life as low-power FM
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A forthcoming low-power FM station in Nashville, Tenn., aims to revive the spirit of a Vanderbilt University student-run station.
People
WNYC loses content v.p. Chris Bannon to podcasting company Midroll
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The opportunity to grow a podcasting audience for a company that’s producing some of his favorite shows appealed to Bannon.
NPR Music
‘Soul is just right there’ for the winner of NPR’s Tiny Desk contest
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NPR received nearly 7,000 submissions for its Tiny Desk Concert contest.
People
Kathy Rogers, Houston Public Media’s ‘Hat Lady,’ dies
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“The Hat Lady,” as Rogers was known, began her career in public media in 1998 at KUHF-FM, now part of Houston Public Media, as an underwriting account executive.
Programs/Content
NPR making changes to voice of underwriting credits
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NPR is moving announcer Sabrina Farhi out of her “primary” role reading its sponsorship credits, according to an email to member stations.
People
Andrew Patner, arts critic for Chicago’s WFMT, dies at 55
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Patner was a longtime critic-at-large for WFMT in Chicago and host of the station’s show Critical Thinking.
Programs/Content
Serial subject granted appeal
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Adnan Syed, the subject of the podcast, has a chance to overturn his life sentence for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend.
Fresh Air
WHYY awarded grant to archive 38 years of Fresh Air
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Around 8,000 episodes of Fresh Air will be made available to the public in 2016.
Programs/Content
St. Louis Public Radio mulls response to subpoena
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St. Louis Public Radio received a subpoena Jan. 29 from the St. Louis circuit attorney for “all raw and aired video and audio footage” from a local meeting it reported on that turned chaotic. The radio station was reporting on a Jan.
mobile
NPR aims to raise profile of its podcasts with new directory
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NPR has a revamped, mobile-friendly hub for podcasts. But it isn’t done improving its podcast technology.
Programs/Content
KUT preps ambitious newsmag ‘Texas Standard’
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Inside a new hourlong weekday newsmag from the Austin, Texas, broadcaster.