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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 ...Hinojosa wins John Chancellor Award for a lifetime of broadcasting achievement
Maria Hinojosa, reporter and anchor for PBS, NPR and CNN, was selected by a panel of eight judges who cited “the courage ...PRPD honors a co-founder and presents a special award to a key provider of audience ...
The Public Radio Program Directors Association gave its 2012 Don Otto Award to audience researcher Peter Dominowski, who co-founded PRPD in 1987. ...POV captures five of PBS’s nine news and documentary Emmys
PBS topped all the other broadcast networks, as runners-up ABC and CBS each won seven. POV’s “Last Train Home,” a film about Chinese ...
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