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Investigative unit covering New England moves into WGBH’s local newsroom
Boston’s WGBH is bolstering its investigative reporting capacity through a new partnership with the nonprofit New England Center for Investigative Reporting.WBUR, KWSU among grantees in Knight’s community news challenge
WBUR in Boston, Northwest Public Radio in Pullman, Wash., and The Lens, a nonprofit newsroom in New Orleans, are among 10 recipients ...With Jazz Night, WBGO and NPR Music will take fans into venues to listen, watch and chat
NPR and WBGO-FM in Newark, N.J., are teaming up to produce Jazz Night in America, a series of radio broadcasts paired with live, high-quality ...NewsHour Weekend adapts PBS flagship for new timeslot, lean production model
PBS backed the startup of NewsHour Weekend as the core element of a revamped approach to its weekend public affairs programs. It ...New WYZR brings jazz back to Pittsburgh area
Former staffers of Pittsburgh’s defunct WDUQ-FM have returned to the airwaves with WYZR, a jazz station that signed on Aug. 31 from ...Detroit PTV looks to bring cultural groups together through its new arts series
Detroit Public Television is using its new arts series, Detroit Performs, to showcase the Motor City’s talents on a wider scale. Local reaction to ...Pacifica’s financial woes drive Free Speech Radio News to shutter production
The financial stranglehold on Pacifica is taking down Free Speech Radio News, a progressive news show that relied on the five-station network for the ...Headlee developing weekly show covering ‘Middle Ground’ between east and west
Celeste Headlee, former co-host of The Takeaway, is launching Middle Ground, a pubradio show concentrating on the vast swath of the country ...Sequestration cuts now figure into APM’s Budget Hero online game
American Public Media has updated its popular online game Budget Hero to reflect the ongoing battle over sequestration cuts in Congress. This fifth ...PRX teams with Center for Investigative Reporting on Reveal series
Public Radio Exchange is adding a new weekly show to its development slate — Reveal, a joint production with the Center for Investigative ...Online PBS series takes a deeper look at video games
PBS Digital Studios premiered Game/Show, an online series that considers video games from a cultural perspective, Aug. 27 on its YouTube channel.Out of Africa, Thompkins returns to New Orleans home
After serving a stint as NPR's East Africa correspondent, Gwen Thompkins was ready to head in a different direction. WWNO gave her ...Atlanta jazz station hopes smoother sound catches on
Atlanta’s WCLK-FM, a jazz station licensed to Clark University, aims to double its audience share with a new approach to programming music ...WNYC, Takeaway encourage stations to take it apart
Public radio’s The Takeaway has more than doubled its carriage since cancellation of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and the show’s producers ...Localism emphasis poses risk
Of all the complex and potentially fateful decisions faced by public radio program directors as they navigate the emergence of multiplatform distribution, ...
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