Tech
WFMU’s Audience Engine aims to help make public media sustainable
The content management system is designed to aid content creators in growing audience and digital fundraising.A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound
The crisp, bright tone comes from a particular microphone — and a few other elements.Student entrepreneurs work to fulfill promise of pubmedia apps
Winners of a Reynolds Journalism Institute’s student competition continue to tweak their products and target prospective partners.Pubcasters seek relief in carriage standoff with satellite companies
Some satellite TV subscribers lack access to news, public affairs and other programming from their state networks.Public Radio Satellite System joins PBS in testing IP-based interconnection
PBS is moving ahead with plans to return most of its distribution to ground level via a new fiber-based system that promises ...Chicago Public Media announces plan for digital upgrades, products
The station also hired its first chief digital officer.Chicago Public Media, The Lens among Knight Prototype Fund recipients
The Knight Prototype Fund announced the projects receiving funding for 2015, including four public media and nonprofit news organizations.Winning student-created app matches listener’s interests to Public Media Platform content
SoundStir, an Android app that lets users customize a feed of public radio stories and build communities around topics, took first place ...Inconsistent Nielsen data vexes public radio stations and inspires a commercial solution
A new audio processing device takes on a shortcoming of the Portable People Meter system.Public Media Platform aims to expand reach with new tools
The system developed for digital content distribution hopes to increase adoption among stations.Venturing off the Strip, engineering conference adds attendees for second year
A new location for the conference helped to reduce costs.Sony, WGBH roll out cloud-based alternative to master-control systems
The companies say Public Media Management should save stations money while protecting their ability to control local programming.KQED tries out Square Cash to boost mobile giving
KQED joined up with Square when the mobile payment processor expanded its Square Cash app to include nonprofits and businesses.StoryCorps unveils app that records anyone’s story
StoryCorps releases an app that its founder calls “the biggest experiment since launching StoryCorps.”PRSS delays fix for audio levels
The Public Radio Satellite System has pushed back its plan to change the level at which it provides audio to member stations.
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