Diversity in Public Media
To serve diverse audiences, you can’t walk the walk until you know where you stand
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Almost every public media organization is prioritizing diversity. Yet beyond hiring, what are the next steps for content strategy?
Programs/Content
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations cancels ‘All IN’ talk show
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“Based on projected funding, we had anticipated a longer run,” said Mark Newman, IPBS’ executive director.
Programs/Content
New spin on ‘Reading Rainbow’ features interactive format, young crew of diverse hosts
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“Reading Rainbow Live” premieres this month after a long hiatus of new “Rainbow” shows and legal disputes over a reboot.
Programs/Content
Current Crossword: ‘Read All About It’
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The brainteaser with a public media theme is back!
Programs/Content
More than just ‘the song and dance app’: Public media stations leverage new audiences on TikTok
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Stations are using TikTok to connect with local audiences and expand their reach to younger viewers.
Programs/Content
CPB grant kickstarts second ‘1A’ collaborative project
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“We’re trying to get inside the minds of most Americans in terms of how they now view the systems that return a democratically elected government.”
Programs/Content
The creators of ‘Ear Hustle’: ‘We were just trying to tell stories’
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The creators of the award-winning podcast about prison life discuss the show’s future and how they wrote their new book, “This Is Ear Hustle.”
Programs/Content
Library of Congress acquisition will preserve Kitchen Sisters’ decades of documenting in sound
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The collection of audio and other materials amassed by Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson represents one of the largest acquisitions in the history of the library’s American Folklife Center.
Programs/Content
Amid attacks on democracy, newsrooms are rethinking approaches to the politics beat
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“January 6 crystallized this — this was not just something where a politician was throwing out spin. This goes beyond anything we have experienced.”
Programs/Content
Pioneer PBS looks to strengthen community ties with website obituaries
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Through a partnership with the company Epilogg, the station is offering a platform for shareable video obituaries.
People
Jad Abumrad steps down from ‘Radiolab’
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Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller will continue as hosts.
Programs/Content
New season of ‘Sanditon’ will tone down the sex, feel ‘more classically Jane Austen’
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Criticism that the first season was racier than Austen would have intended “speaks to a difference between the British audience and the American audience,” said the show’s head writer Thursday during the Television Critics Association press tour.
Programs/Content
Security in covering right-wing rallies is a ‘constant issue,’ say ‘Frontline’ producers
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“The reporting I have been doing for the last five years involves interviewing people who are armed and oftentimes very not happy with the mainstream media, not happy with me,” ProPublica’s A.C. Thompson told TV critics.
Programs/Content
New KUT podcast showcases Austin’s Black community
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“We get to learn from our guests as much as listeners do.”
Programs/Content
New PBS initiatives will support filmmakers of color, offer early-career mentoring
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“I think the most important aspect of all the conversations, particularly with diverse filmmakers, over this last year has been for us to listen and try to understand where there are barriers and how we can bring more work forward, how we can better support filmmakers no matter what stage of their professional career they are in,” said PBS President Paula Kerger.
Programs/Content
Working group will help NPR develop new standards and ethics handbook
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The new handbook will go beyond NPR’s existing ethics guide to focus on station-specific issues, such as editorial independence from university and school district licensees.
Education
How taking public radio’s journalism into classrooms can engage and educate students
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In an excerpt from her book “Listen Wise: Teach Students to Be Better Listeners,” Monica Brady-Myerov recalls the “lightbulb moment” that led her to launch the digital education platform Listenwise.
Engagement
How CapRadio connected with rural audiences during the pandemic
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Even with omicron surging, your newsroom can still engage new communities.
Programs/Content
Maine Public addresses ‘new urgency’ with video newscasts created for immigrants
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The station began offering news in French, Spanish, Somali and Portuguese to deliver public service information amid the pandemic.
Programs/Content
DJ with ‘killer music taste’ mixes knowledge of native language, history into new Hawai‘i Public Radio show
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The goal for “Hawai‘i Kulāiwi” is “to help the audience just see Hawaii the way that Hawaiians do,” says Paige Okamura, known to listeners as “DJ Mermaid.”