System/Policy
Where is fundraising in your CEO’s to-do list?
The kind of leaders needed to drive this transformation are not just media organization managers but also community leaders.NPR postpones test of station-network online fundraising
To make time for talks with concerned stations, NPR has put on hold a proposed trial of online giving on NPR.org.Rhode Island declares independence (again)
The four-year struggle to establish WRNI in Providence, R.I., as an independent public radio service for the state crossed a long-awaited threshold ...Uncomfortable, as promised
Cindy Browne never promised them a rose garden. In fact, the founding executive director of Iowa Public Radio repeatedly promised the network’s ...Satradio merger okayed without pubradio provisions
The compromise package of fines and consumer protections imposed by the FCC in exchange for approving the merger of the Sirius and ...Contract signed to preserve Salt Lake public radio news station
Wasatch Public Media, a new nonprofit established just 10 weeks ago to buy KCPW-FM in Salt Lake City and keep it a ...Where church rules pubcasting, pledge drive comes up empty
The nightmare scenario is probably familiar to anyone who ever worked an on-air fund drive: What if nobody pledges?Stern’s latest credit: completing the search for NPR’s future home
In 2012, when NPR moves to its recently acquired headquarters site seven blocks east of its present home, it will have much ...Stern’s latest credit: completing the search for NPR’s future home
In 2012, when NPR moves to its recently acquired headquarters site seven blocks east of its present home, it will have much ...After a big score, deals sour and Utah station pulls back
A small-town Utah public-radio outfit that expanded into Salt Lake City thanks to its founders’ deal-making acumen — and stirred controversy over ...Stations court, flirt, propose and part by Monterey Bay
A proposed merger of two California pubradio stations fell apart when officials at California State University Monterey Bay voted to keep control ...Consortium outlines vision for Latino public radio service
A newly formed consortium of Latino public broadcasters is calling for public radio to expand its service to the nation’s growing Hispanic ...Abortion issue heats dispute over WDUQ underwriting
Pittsburgh jazz/news station WDUQ finds itself in the middle of an abortion-politics hardball contest between its licensee, Catholic-run Duquesne ...APTS preps proposals for ‘American Archive,’ copyright legislation
While the Association of Public Television Stations and its member stations’ activists will be busy enough fighting off the cutback of more ...Shadows in the corridors
The scene: a small conference room of the Senate Committee on Commerce, late on a February afternoon. The players: a senior committee staffer ...
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