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5 takeaways from a KPCC/LAist engagement project with child care providers
An ambitious multimedia initiative taught the Los Angeles station's team "how to enrich our storytelling, broaden our relationships, and spark conversation."Current’s first-ever pubmedia salary survey finds age and gender gaps, higher union wages
A closer look at some highlights from the data.Michigan Radio partners with neighborhood organization to help inform coverage of Detroit
“The people that we cover need to have confidence that we are part of and care about their community and that ...GBH and author Kwame Alexander partner for children’s series on music education
Alexander will be a co-EP for the production alongside Marcy Gunther, director of media development for children’s media at GBH. Kay Donmyer, ...WHRO acquires oldies station with ‘passionate’ following
With a signal boost and rebranding of WFOS as the Time Machine Radio Network, WHRO aims to reach a new audience of ...Study points to ways public media could build teen and tween audience — and risks of ...
"If we don’t engage them now, the teens and tweens of today might not as adults of tomorrow value public media.”The Producers. (Is that title taken?)
Appreciating a longtime talk show producer who "made me a better host because it seemed unforgivable to let her excellent work go ...How the Hindsight Project built new relationships between Southern stations and BIPOC filmmakers
“It's BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It's not people who are ...What might have happened: NPR sells off cultural programming, new network dubbed ‘NPR Music & ...
In an alternate reality in 1983, NPR President Frank Mankiewicz, desperate for cash, unloads the network's arts programs on a consortium of ...NEA grant supports use of WTJU jazz history show in classrooms
The community radio station in Charlottesville, Va., will turn the show "Jazz at 100" into a curriculum for high school and early ...NPR will end ‘Ask Me Another’ in September
The weekly hour of comedy, trivia and music airs on more than 300 stations.How to build the next generation of public radio listeners
Stop wringing your hands over how to attract Millennial and Gen Z audiences — focus on creating programs that give them more reasons ...Sesame Workshop focuses on racial literacy with four-year Coming Together initiative
The project's content will encourage conversations "that parents, caregivers or providers often don't know how to start."Radio Diaries, ‘Radiolab’ team up to produce their own documentaries on Black Swan Records
After learning they were separately pursuing stories on the pioneering label and its founder, producers Joe Richman and Jad Abumrad decided to ...Citing finances and audience strategy, New Hampshire Public Radio ends ‘Exchange’
The change comes after longtime host Laura Knoy announced that she would step down.
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