Programs/Content
Transom aids producers with Donor Fund gifts
Transom.org has awarded small radio production grants from its Donor Fund. The online watering hole and how-to site for radio producers provided grants ...Nightly Business Report cuts jobs, closes Chicago bureau
A new round of layoffs at Nightly Business Report, initiated last week, pared full-time staff to 22, down by half from two years ago. ...More details on KCRW’s ‘exclusive’ arrangement with Spotify
When the popular Internet music-streaming service Spotify launches its improved Follow feature in early 2013, KCRW in Los Angeles will be the ...Big oil, big changes spotlighted in Black Gold Boom
From roughnecks to singing cowboys and itinerant knife dealers, North Dakota’s oil boom has lured thousands to remote areas of the state ...Ideastream recognizes WCLV’s Robert Conrad for ‘innovative and generous acts.’
Conrad, president and co-founder of the 50-year-old Cleveland-based classical music station, received ideastream’s “Great Idea Award” for his service as a leading ...APT cites top series for programming excellence, names Robert Scully ‘Person of the Year’
During last month’s Fall Marketplace conference in Sanibel Harbour, Fla., APT honored Doc Martin, Nightly Business Report, Rick Steves’ Hidden Europe and New Scandinavian Cooking with ...Deal resolves ownership of Ohio’s WYSO-FM as the college that built it revives
Two years after Antioch College reopened its campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, it negotiated an $8 million deal to buy back WYSO, NPR News ...BURN: An Energy Journal wins AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award
The American Association for the Advancement of Science singled out the first of four BURN documentary specials, “Particles: Nuclear Power After Fukushima,” which ...StoryCorps launches newest project – Military Voices Initiative
For the next year StoryCorps, the public radio group collecting and presenting life stories told between family members and friends, will undertake ...Video: Delaware’s first homegrown public radio station celebrates launch
WDDE-FM signed on in August 2012, becoming the first public radio station based in the state of Delaware. Governor Jack Markell cut ...Radio g.m.’s adapt business models for newsgathering
Public radio is adapting too slowly to the competitive challenges it faces from Internet-based media platforms, and the pace of change must ...Student-centered News Outlet to report on fracking
A four-year-old nonprofit news service established by two professors at Youngstown State University is taking on an expanded role in investigative news ...Sky’s the limit: KBIA-FM gets $25k grant to create newsgathering drones
Are small, nimble flying robots the next newsgathering tool for public broadcasters?Stations share election coverage on ‘Battleground’
For the first major election since NPR Digital Services introduced digital publishing software designed to bolster stations’ online news operations, developers in ...Pledge special builds on Downton’s buzz
Fans of Masterpiece’s hit Downton Abbey await arrival of the British drama’s third season, PBS and some 70 local stations hope to reel them ...
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