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‘The Pub’ #51: BJ Leiderman, public radio theme composer
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Leiderman relishes his fame, but it’s been a tough high-water mark to reach again.
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‘The Pub’ #50: How to pronounce things correctly (but not too correctly)
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Learn how to avoid sounding pretentious and write a good pronouncer.
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Public radio stars try to read the longest sentence ever
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We put a challenge to the owners of seven well-known voices: Read a 92-word sentence in one breath.
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‘The Pub’ #49: Bill Siemering, author of NPR’s 1970 mission statement
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We look at whether today’s public radio resembles Siemering’s optimistic vision for the enterprise.
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‘The Pub’ #48: Are public media journalists really all liberals?
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And what, if anything, could or should be done about it?
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‘The Pub’ #47: WGBH’s Bob Kempf on why stations matter online
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In the digital age, when national networks can serve people directly online, does it make sense to invest in hundreds of local public media brands online?
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‘The Pub’ #46: Why NPR’s studio mic sounds better than yours
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Our Thanksgiving re-podcast includes an interview with NPR’s chief audio engineer.
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‘The Pub’ #45: Audible’s Martha Little says public media should be ‘feminized’
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Little says public media workplaces work better when they’re flatter and more collaborative.
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‘The Pub’ #44: Public media travel guru Rick Steves, live in Atlanta
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The travel host discusses his business model, whether he feels pressure to follow Vice’s example, his advocacy for marijuana legalization and more.
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‘The Pub’ #43: Why public media are sponsoring polls, and how a CBC video went viral
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How do political polls fit with public media’s mission?
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‘The Pub’ #42: This American Life’s Stephanie Foo on how to fix public radio’s whiteness problem
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Foo talks about her frank and funny manifesto for Transom, “What To Do If Your Workplace Is Too White.”
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The Pub #41: Marketplace’s Ben Johnson and his unusual new podcast, Codebreaker
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Everybody has a new podcast these days, but this one does something quite novel with the medium.
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‘The Pub’ #40: Chris Satullo, WHYY’s former v.p. for news
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Satullo had big, somewhat unorthodox plans for news at Philadelphia’s dominant public radio and television station.
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‘The Pub’ #39: Public radio’s two audiences, PBS news VP Marie Nelson, Auto-Tune on kids’ shows
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Research shows that baby boomers and millennials are not only listening to public radio differently, but for different reasons.
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‘The Pub’ #38: Robin Amer, winner of WNYC’s Podcast Accelerator competition
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If you want to know how to impress the likes of WNYC, pay attention to how Amer did it.
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‘The Pub’ #37: Death, Sex & Money’s Anna Sale, live from Los Angeles
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The WNYC podcast host on how she draws the most intimate details from her guests.
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‘The Pub’ #36: How loudness technology can make audio better, with APM’s Rob Byers
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The technology knows that our ears perceives frequencies differently and accounts for the discrepancy.
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‘The Pub’ #35: Torey Malatia is back; the youngest general managers in public media
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The most famous general manager in public radio is going to try again with another station.
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‘The Pub’ #34: Outgoing ‘Weekend All Things Considered’ EP Steve Lickteig on NPR’s most-tinkered-with show
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Lickteig discusses the unique production ethos that he says boosted WATC’s ratings over the last two years.
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‘The Pub’ #33: Ann Heppermann on the rebirth of audio fiction
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Listen to some exciting, genre-bending works commissioned for a new competition.