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Futuro Media picks participants for podcast training program
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The organization is training six people with no experience in public media to create podcasts.
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Pipeline 2019: Our annual survey of shows coming to public TV
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Browse, filter and search our listing of more than 100 programs scheduled for upcoming release.
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Gates’ four-hour series on Reconstruction uncovers ‘a history that needs to be told’
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The arc of “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War,” slated to air next April in two installments, mirrors race relations in the U.S. today.
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Intimate ‘Independent Lens’ film documents problems with rural health care
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“The Providers” examines the challenges of delivering care to patients in northern New Mexico.
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PBS plans both broad and intimate looks at historic moon landing
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The schedule will feature “high-performing library content and specially commissioned projects,” said Bill Gardner, PBS programming development VP.
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WNET’s All Arts network may grow into multicast channel offering
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The complete network will launch Jan. 28.
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Series of conversations between prisoners and community members wins Current’s Local That Works contest
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Alaska Public Media’s “Community in Unity” initiative aims to “get people who wouldn’t normally interact in the same room.”
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Watch the four finalists in our Local That Works contest
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The winner, chosen by the audience at the Public Radio Super-Regional conference, will get $5,000.
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With community baby shower, Ohio news outlet puts healthy spin on ‘depressing topic’
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By celebrating healthy babies and moms, Richland Source aimed to draw attention to its county’s infant mortality problem.
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KUOW podcast engages local audience with practical tips for fighting workplace sexism
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Fans of “Battle Tactics for Your Sexist Workplace” “find something in it that resonates with them, makes them feel like they are empowered to walk into work and can change things for the better,” says a co-host.
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Brewery concerts bring new audiences to N.C. classical station
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The music series is “intended to eliminate the formality and pretense often associated with classical music.”
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New StoryCorps initiative looks to bridge widening political divide
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The One Small Step project seeks to help people with opposing political views have civil, personal conversations.
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How a trio of revived local websites is expanding public radio’s audience
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After a purchase earlier this year, the Gothamist websites are helping major-market stations step up their journalism and reach younger readers.
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After merger of PRI and PRX, ‘both companies will be affected in some way’
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The companies’ union is affecting personnel, programming and PRI’s relationship with WGBH.
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How Scott Carrier is navigating the plight of the lone, listener-sponsored podcaster
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Producers who have left public radio to go solo as podcasters have made some outstanding work. But the work has sometimes made them emotional wrecks.
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Format spotlighting hip-hop, R&B will get tryout on three stations
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The stations will receive CPB grants to implement the new “Urban Alternative” format.
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‘Live from Here’ shakes up cast ahead of upcoming season
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The show is moving away from its roots with Garrison Keillor.
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Through podcasts, kids’ shows also get more airtime on old-school radio
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Podcasts give creators of kids’ shows more freedom, but finding ways to play to radio’s strengths can help them reach more listeners.
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‘Amanpour & Company’ sharpens focus on timely topics, guests chosen for PBS late-night viewers
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With a stable of correspondents and producers from WNET and CNN, the hourlong show aims to deliver “mind-expanding” interviews for American audiences.
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Revamped Detroit news show looks to community to set agenda
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With “One Detroit,” Detroit Public Television is taking longtime hosts out of the studio and into the middle of local conversations.