Greenlit as the COVID pandemic accelerated, “Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer” suddenly found itself “right in the middle of history.”
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Los Angeles partners revamp local daily news breaks into ‘SoCal Update’
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Journalists from KPCC and LAist share reporting on top stories of the day in short segments that air on PBS SoCal and KCET.
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Filmmakers who challenged PBS on diversity continue push for transparency
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Members of Beyond Inclusion say they will keep advocating for issues they raised in a March letter to PBS CEO Paula Kerger.
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PRX re-releases series exploring the history of Black culture through radio
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”With the amount of time and effort and love that we put into this, it should be available again,” said Sonja Williams, a producer of “Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was” who worked to bring the series back to the airwaves.
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NPR will roll out paid subscriptions to its podcasts
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The network will also participate in Apple and Spotify’s podcast subscription initiatives.
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Shuttered by COVID, theaters find new audiences in pivot to radio dramas
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“It’s been a happy accident that we were kind of forced into this, but we’ve really enjoyed doing it.”
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How KUNR’s internship program for high school students illustrates the value of youth voices during the pandemic
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By equipping student reporters with microphones, they can provide a unique insight into how the pandemic has disrupted schools and how the last year has upended any sense of normalcy for today’s youth.
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Black Public Media’s PitchBLACK commits largest-ever funding pool to five documentaries
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Four documentaries and an animated short exploring the Black experience received over $400,000.
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CPB funds COVID-19 PSAs focused on Black and Native communities
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The grants went to Native Public Media and to stations licensed to HBCUs.
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‘Eyes on the Prize’ producer Henry Hampton reflects on how to serve ‘a nation immersed in turmoil’
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“We must help rebuild … the faith that most Americans have always had in their future and their ability to share in the American dream,” the filmmaker said in a 1992 keynote at the PBS Annual Meeting.