Programs/Content
Kentucky Public Radio’s recipe for a statewide voter guide success
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It takes some planning to create a voter guide that geolocates users, but the payoff is entirely worth it.
Why public media must support colleagues in the path of climate disasters
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We in public media often refer to our little world as “the system.” If we are, in fact, an interdependent system, fundraising to support fellow stations and staffers in distress is the kind of thing we can do to prove it.
Programs/Content
HBO to premiere new ‘Sesame Street’ shows, provide them for free to PBS in 5-year deal
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New Sesame Street episodes will premiere exclusively on HBO starting this fall and will be available to PBS after nine months.
Quick Takes
Shake-up at WTMD ousts longtime g.m.
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Stephen Yasko is out at the station after 13 years.
Quick Takes
NPR, WNYC to participate in second podcast upfront
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The event takes place Sept. 10 in New York City.
Programs/Content
PBS drops hourlong ‘Sesame Street’ from fall schedule
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The half-hour version of the show, which premiered last fall, will continue.
Development
BizLab is exploring the future of public media’s digital dollars
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BizLab’s new executive director says the unit aims to “change the way we think about funding public radio for good.”
Documentaries on PBS
Makers, subjects of PBS’s indie docs bring diversity to public TV, study finds
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The study’s authors argued that films such as God Loves Uganda are central to public TV’s mission.
Quick Takes
Journalist prepares New Hampshire–focused investigative news outlet for launch
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The site launches Sept. 1.
People
WAMU hires Andi McDaniel as head of content
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McDaniel comes from Twin Cities Public Television.
People
Kartemquin’s Justine Nagan to lead PBS’s ‘POV’
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Nagan succeeds Simon Kilmurry, who left July 6 to head the International Documentary Association.