Programs/Content
From scratch at Cape & Islands
There are now enough public radio stations to reach more than 90 percent of the American public, and pubcasters have adding specialized ...With young actors, Localore’s interactive Ed Zed Omega critiques education system
CPB’s American Graduate initiative has set its sights on targeting dropouts, but another project in public media, Ed Zed Omega, is zeroing ...Frontline, Marketplace take on campaign financing with pre-election programming slate
Big Money 2012 is an ongoing cross-pollination between PBS's Frontline and American Public Media's Marketplace that works to incorporate traditional news documentaries with online ...Pubradio reporters debate ‘dissing of daily news’
Freelance radio and print journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte set off a lively exchange of the philosophical differences between radio producers who work under ...Radiolab producers release ‘yellow rain’ email
Producers of the program have made public the full list of questions they had originally emailed to their interview subject for the ...Search for ‘truth’ results in ‘Radiolab’ apology
An interview that went awry for Radiolab sparked an outcry from listeners and an unusual apology from a show unaccustomed to accusations of ...As election nears, Swing State Network checks pulse of political battlegrounds
Some states get a little sexier every four years: Ohio. Florida. North Carolina. Their pivotal role in deciding the presidential election has ...Kickstarter crowd backs Seabrook’s Decode DC
Former NPR correspondent Andrea Seabrook, who covered Congress until departing in July to launch an independent podcast called Decode DC, crossed the finish line ...Punditry, audience declines cost Smiley & West stations
Tavis Smiley is defending the tone and content of his weekly public radio show Smiley & West after Chicago’s WBEZ became the latest and ...WXPN offering XPoNential Triple A stream for HD broadcasts
Philadelphia’s WXPN began independent syndication of XPoNential Radio, its 24-hour stream of Triple A music programming, after NPR discontinued its service providing packaged HD ...News, game-ified and powered by the crowd
Documentary filmmakers, code developers and public media executives are creating more interactive takes on the news in order to draw audiences into ...‘Collective of stories’ of women’s movement
Filmmaker Dyllan McGee’s documentary Makers: Women Who Make America features interviews with 70 accomplished women.Film revives spirit of rebellious Boston radio
Turn on the black light, cue up a Doors album and sink into your beanbag chair: The American Revolution, a documentary coming to public ...KQED’s AIDS at 30 series wins award for excellence in radio
The series covered the 30th anniversary of the year the Centers for Disease Control reported that five previously healthy young men in ...Minnesota Public Radio’s Chris Worthington receives diversity award
Presented by AAJA Minnesota, the Leadership in Diversity Award honors someone who has made great strides in promoting and demonstrating diversity in ...
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