Programs/Content
How design thinking gave these producers a fresh approach to local podcasts
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The producers of the podcasts We Live Here and Out of the Blocks share lessons from PRX’s Project Catapult.
Programs/Content
Journalism initiative aims to re-energize local coverage around the country
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Three public broadcasters and the nonprofit newsroom Mississippi Today will host reporters from the program’s inaugural class.
Programs/Content
All-female panel at Non-Comm convention calls for gender equality in music radio
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The all-female panel suggested ways station leaders and others can change their work and mindsets to be more inclusive and supportive of women.
Programs/Content
NonComm panelists describe risks and rewards of putting hip-hop artists into rotation
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Programmers said they have a mission to introduce listeners to music that challenges them.
Programs/Content
Upcoming PBS Kids series take young viewers far ‘beyond their own block’
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Advisers helped ensure that the programs would accurately reflect cultures around the world.
Programs/Content
Stations ask NPR for bottom-of-hour newscast slot in revised ‘Morning Edition’ clock
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NPR has said that stations may instead have to air a full three-minute national newscast during that time.
Programs/Content
CPB backs scholarship fund honoring filmmaker Jacquie Jones
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The fund, seeded with $300,000 from CPB, will be managed by Black Public Media.
Programs/Content
With systemwide coverage review, public radio can reveal and address its racial inequities
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Do public radio stations know how their communities perceive their coverage? Are we willing to find out?
Programs/Content
Public radio organizations partner to acquire podcast app
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NPR, WNYC, WBEZ and This American Life teamed up to make the deal.
Programs/Content
PBS rekindles political debate show ‘Firing Line’
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The show will be hosted by Margaret Hoover, a political commentator and Republican strategist.
Programs/Content
Former host of WGBH woodworking show files trademark infringement suit
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The former host of Rough Cut: Woodworking with Tommy Mac says WGBH is profiting off his image with a new season of the show.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #111: Stations show off humor, baking skills in Public Radio Cake Week
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And an NPR utensil good Samaritan is at work helping out the forkless.
Programs/Content
Wisconsin Public Radio draws on station talent to spice up weekend sound
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The new show Beta is the first production spawned by WPR Next, an initiative to generate new programming ideas.
Programs/Content
At pubmedia summit, filmmakers cite promise of VR production for ‘seeding black voices’
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Attendees at the Black Public Media event this month said virtual reality offers a chance to stamp the emerging medium with black stories and sensibilities.
Programs/Content
NPR considers revised ‘Morning Edition’ clock to reduce ‘cluttered’ feel
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A proposed update would lengthen segments and return the show to a format of two newscasts per hour instead of three.
Programs/Content
Collaboration among Pennsylvania pubmedia documents opioid crisis: ‘The worst is yet to come’
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Broadcasters are joining together to address a problem that “crosses all demographics and socioeconomic status.”
Programs/Content
Five reasons to build on public media’s journalism collaborations
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If we set standards and build connections across the growing web of station-based collaborations, we will amplify our voices and expand the reach of our content.
Programs/Content
New five-year APMG initiative aims to unpack stigma surrounding mental illness
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APMG is recruiting a full-time mental health reporter and will integrate coverage of mental health issues into podcasts and on its music stations.
Programs/Content
Latest American Graduate phase aims to teach students about ‘middle-skill’ jobs
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“The need for skilled people in our workforce is only growing,” said Amy Shaw, SVP of engagement and content at lead station Nine Network.
Programs/Content
‘American Experience’ harnesses Facebook to identify teen in 50-year-old footage
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The footage came from a march following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.