Programs/Content
American Masters to shine light on reclusive author J.D. Salinger for 200th episode
The author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey died in January 2010 after living for more than 50 years as a recluse ...Latitude News meets Kickstarter goal to fund new weekly podcast
Latitude News, an online news outlet exploring world events and their reverberating effects in local U.S. communities and vice versa, surpassed the ...Upcoming American Graduate specials tackle lax schools, juvenile justice system
A pair of documentaries to be released for public TV broadcasts next month focus on two of the most difficult aspects of ...WBEZ turns to matchmaking in ads aimed at younger listeners
Dubbed the “2032 Membership Drive,” the station’s newest citywide marketing blitz encourages young “interesting people” to “make babies” who will grow up ...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 ...New Chicago pubTV program to include segment produced by Localore project
The project solicits questions from listeners about Chicago to investigate on-air.PBS NewsHour report yields unexpected results
A PBS NewsHour report on population growth and food scarcity in the Philippines prompted an increase in donations to the PATH Foundation Philippines Inc., ...Thinking inside the bubble: KCRW’s Sonic Trace explores roots of L.A. Latinos
Sonic Trace seeks to record stories from southern California’s Latino immigrant communities, documenting the many and varied paths they take to get ...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 ...Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me! beams into movie theaters May 2 for a live event
The latest public radio program to experiment with the big screen, NPR's fun-loving news quiz show Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! ...Jesse Thorn’s Bullseye moving to NPR
More than six weeks after first announcing his arts-and-culture radio program's exit from longtime distributor PRI, Jesse Thorn revealed the details of ...WXXI reporter’s trip builds bridge between Rochester and South Sudan
The educational system in the newly independent South Sudan is undergoing many changes, and WXXI’s Hélène Biandudi recently reported on them firsthand ...APT re-releases Escape from Iran as its fictional twin, Argo, vies for Oscars
The storyline of a Canadian film coming to public TV stations this month has all the trappings of a gripping yarn: intrigue, ...Latest shows inspired by ‘TAL’ speak in foreign tongues
Among the new radio programs inspired by “This American Life” are two productions for non–English-speaking listeners.
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