“The Pub” Podcast
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‘The Pub’ #42: This American Life’s Stephanie Foo on how to fix public radio’s whiteness ...
Foo talks about her frank and funny manifesto for Transom, “What To Do If Your Workplace Is Too White.”The Pub #41: Marketplace’s Ben Johnson and his unusual new podcast, Codebreaker
Everybody has a new podcast these days, but this one does something quite novel with the medium.‘The Pub’ #40: Chris Satullo, WHYY’s former v.p. for news
Satullo had big, somewhat unorthodox plans for news at Philadelphia’s dominant public radio and television station.‘The Pub’ #39: Public radio’s two audiences, PBS news VP Marie Nelson, Auto-Tune on kids’ ...
Research shows that baby boomers and millennials are not only listening to public radio differently, but for different reasons.‘The Pub’ #38: Robin Amer, winner of WNYC’s Podcast Accelerator competition
If you want to know how to impress the likes of WNYC, pay attention to how Amer did it.‘The Pub’ #37: Death, Sex & Money’s Anna Sale, live from Los Angeles
The WNYC podcast host on how she draws the most intimate details from her guests.‘The Pub’ #36: How loudness technology can make audio better, with APM’s Rob Byers
The technology knows that our ears perceives frequencies differently and accounts for the discrepancy.‘The Pub’ #35: Torey Malatia is back; the youngest general managers in public media
The most famous general manager in public radio is going to try again with another station.‘The Pub’ #34: Outgoing ‘Weekend All Things Considered’ EP Steve Lickteig on NPR’s most-tinkered-with show
Lickteig discusses the unique production ethos that he says boosted WATC’s ratings over the last two years.‘The Pub’ #33: Ann Heppermann on the rebirth of audio fiction
Listen to some exciting, genre-bending works commissioned for a new competition.‘The Pub’ #32: The future of children’s public television
Thoughts on the Sesame Street news, and an encore interview with PBS Vice President for Children’s Programming Linda Simensky.‘The Pub’ #31: Adam Davidson on the economics of public radio in the podcasting era
NPR can have a viable future, says the Planet Money co-founder, but only if it dramatically restructures and raises its game.‘The Pub’ #30: Mike Pesca on life after NPR
“I loved NPR, I still do. I kind of love it for its flaws, as well.”‘The Pub’ #29: Michael Oreskes, NPR’s new head of news, on station collaboration, host changes ...
Oreskes wants NPR and member stations to collaborate more seamlessly, both to break more and better news, but also to better reflect ...‘The Pub’ #28: A Martínez on how KPCC doubled its Latino audience
Southern California Public Radio’s recently concluded, three-year, $6 million CPB-funded quest to court Latino audiences met with its share of criticism along ...
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