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New England News Collaborative sunsets radio show, refocuses strategy
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The collaborative ended its show “Next” last month to focus on new priorities.
podcasts
Podcasts vs. local news: an either-or proposition?
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“For small and midsize media organizations, a new focus on podcast excellence may mean getting out of the comprehensive local news business.”
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How NPR and stations are working together to expand regional news
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NPR and stations have found early success at attracting support from major donors and adding reporting capacity to the system with a journalism hubs model.
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The missing middle: Reimagining a future for tweens, teens and public media
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Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center report on how public media can create media that’s relevant to the lives of the teens and tweens who make up Gen Z.
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Fans, stations welcome return of hit series ‘Sanditon’
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Efficient production and a collaborative funding push allowed for two new seasons of the “Masterpiece” Jane Austen adaptation.
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NYPR fires Bob Garfield after investigation into bullying
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Garfield was fired following two investigations into his conduct.
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PBS series on life expectancy aims to give ‘200-year view of the present moment’
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Greenlit as the COVID pandemic accelerated, “Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer” suddenly found itself “right in the middle of history.”
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#PBSForTheArts campaign documents how arts have survived pandemic
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#PBSForTheArts is examining how arts organizations are working to “stay around, stay relevant and then fight back,” said WNET Group CEO Neal Shapiro.
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Yamiche Alcindor named moderator of ‘Washington Week’
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Alcindor plans to maintain the show’s traditions while thinking of ways it can speak “to a new generation of people.”
Programs/Content
Without a live audience, this variety show had to find a way forward
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“It really was just a process of us starting and stopping and having to reassess,” said a co-EP of public radio’s “Live From Cain’s.”
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‘Uncuffed’ podcast lets incarcerated people tell their stories, their way
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“Everyone deserves a chance to share their truth unmitigated because we all have so much to learn from the way incarcerated people process trauma and grief, which also happens on the outside.”
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Los Angeles partners revamp local daily news breaks into ‘SoCal Update’
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Journalists from KPCC and LAist share reporting on top stories of the day in short segments that air on PBS SoCal and KCET.
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Filmmakers who challenged PBS on diversity continue push for transparency
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Members of Beyond Inclusion say they will keep advocating for issues they raised in a March letter to PBS CEO Paula Kerger.
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PRX re-releases series exploring the history of Black culture through radio
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”With the amount of time and effort and love that we put into this, it should be available again,” said Sonja Williams, a producer of “Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was” who worked to bring the series back to the airwaves.
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NPR will roll out paid subscriptions to its podcasts
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The network will also participate in Apple and Spotify’s podcast subscription initiatives.
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Shuttered by COVID, theaters find new audiences in pivot to radio dramas
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“It’s been a happy accident that we were kind of forced into this, but we’ve really enjoyed doing it.”
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How KUNR’s internship program for high school students illustrates the value of youth voices during the pandemic
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By equipping student reporters with microphones, they can provide a unique insight into how the pandemic has disrupted schools and how the last year has upended any sense of normalcy for today’s youth.
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Black Public Media’s PitchBLACK commits largest-ever funding pool to five documentaries
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Four documentaries and an animated short exploring the Black experience received over $400,000.
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CPB funds COVID-19 PSAs focused on Black and Native communities
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The grants went to Native Public Media and to stations licensed to HBCUs.
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‘Eyes on the Prize’ producer Henry Hampton reflects on how to serve ‘a nation immersed in turmoil’
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“We must help rebuild … the faith that most Americans have always had in their future and their ability to share in the American dream,” the filmmaker said in a 1992 keynote at the PBS Annual Meeting.