With advancements from OpenAI and Meta, newsrooms may adapt and build new features to enhance the reader and listener experience.
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How AI and immersive tech can transform storytelling in public media
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The single most important thing to do in 2024 is to set your organization up for data success.
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How nonprofit news outlets are using AI to save time and money
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Drafting fundraising emails, scraping databases, translating stories and aggregating links in newsletters are just a few ways nonprofit news outlets are using AI.
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How AI tools could be used to reimagine live audio
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By allowing for piloting and experimentation with AI tools, you can better understand how they can help streamline workflows, prevent crises and enable your team to focus more on creative and strategic aspects of production.
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How PBS Utah is using AI to customize audience experiences
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“Analyzing past performance is important, but recent advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning have opened the floodgates of what is possible with the data available.”
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How KQED is enriching its ‘Forum’ archive with generative AI
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Ask Forum harnesses the power of a large language model to offer a more flexible and expandable search experience.
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Stations in Alabama, Texas and Alaska receive $1.3 million from Next Gen Warning System
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Alabama Public Television, KLRN in San Antonio and KYUK in Bethel will use the funds to upgrade their technology for transmitting emergency alerts.
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How public media can help shape ethical AI voice technology
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Following the controversy over OpenAI’s “Sky” voice, public media must aim to build tools that are imbued with cultural richness and represent all people while preserving cultural and traditional knowledge.
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Four more public media stations receive Next Generation Warning System funding
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Two of the stations serve Indigenous audiences.
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How ChatGPT’s new model could transform podcasting and public media
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ChatGPT-4o offers the potential for streamlined multilingual communication and audio analysis in the near future.
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How to prepare for a media landscape minus TikTok
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It’s reasonable to expect that government oversight will impact the apps you frequent sooner rather than later. Be as ready as you can be.
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Signal Infrastructure Group acquires Sony’s share of Public Media Management, announces rebrand
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SIG will rebrand itself to Media Management as part of the purchase.
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Innovation at SXSW: What public media should know
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As a mirror on tech and society, the “spring break for nerds” offers takeaways relevant to the future of public media.
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AI in newsrooms: revolution or retooling?
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Felix Simon argues that, for now, we’re witnessing more of a retooling of the news through AI rather than a fundamental change in the needs and goals of news organizations.
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A journalist’s journey from analog roots in radio to the horizons of AI
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“Our approach to integrating AI into journalism must be inclusive. It’s crucial to engage with our communities, inviting their input and ensuring AI-generated content is human-guided so that the content resonates and serves audiences effectively.”
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With help from ATSC 3.0, public media answers FCC’s call for partners in wireless emergency alerts initiative
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PBS North Carolina and WHUT in Washington, D.C., among others, can leverage ATSC 3.0 technology to provide geotargeted emergency alerts.
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A user’s guide to AI image generators
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New tools like DALL-E and Midjourney have their pros and cons. Our guide breaks them down for you and shows how each generator interpreted sample prompts.
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Shortage of engineers poses technical challenge for pubmedia stations
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The challenges facing the future of broadcast engineering are multifaceted and require a comprehensive strategy to ensure the industry’s sustainability.
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Get tips on using generative AI to streamline workflows and boost creativity
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The webinar “Innovate With Current: A Live Users’ Guide to Generative AI Tools” dove into the heart of how people in public media are experimenting with AI technology.
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The playground of possibilities: A guide to generative AI for public media
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Whether you’re a seasoned generative AI user, gAI-curious or simply someone who wants to peek into tools that may influence tomorrow’s public media, this guide is your permission to embrace the future.
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Inaugural Next Generation Warning System grants prioritize expansion to underserved communities
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Florida’s IRSC Public Media and Mississippi Public Broadcasting will expand or improve their capacity to deliver emergency messages to at-risk communities.