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
Big & Small: Why it Makes Perfect Business Sense to Collaborate
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The merits of outsourcing membership fundraising with a particular perspective coming from a small station.
Programs/Content
What About Us? PBS Resources to Engage Middle- and High-School Students
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This session looks at what PBS resources and programming is available for middle- and high-school students and what stations are doing to work with these audiences.
Programs/Content
Making The Scene: A digital model for creating a regional multiplatform destination
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There is no shortage of great ideas, but making them a reality is not always easy.
Programs/Content
Study to give public TV first granular look at local audiences
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TRAC Media Services is starting a deep dive into demographics, with findings that counter conventional wisdom.
Programs/Content
New NEA grants fuel public media projects nationwide
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The grants are the second round this fiscal year, bringing the NEA’s total support to $103.4 million.
People
Stalking of Minnesota host highlights common but little-discussed threat to female DJs
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The lofty world of public radio is as affected as any broadcaster by harassment described as steady, ubiquitous and taking many forms.
Programs/Content
CPB backs collaboration in Baltimore on coverage of Freddie Gray aftermath
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Two stations are working together to expand reporting on the city’s response to Gray’s death.
Awards
Murrows go to pubcasters, SPJ recognizes radio, and more awards in public media
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Idaho Public Television’s Outdoor Idaho won six awards from the Idaho Press Club.
Congress
Senate resolution upholds forward funding for CPB
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The joint resolution approves the blueprint for the $3.8 trillion 2016 federal budget.
"The Pub" Podcast
The Pub #17: Ira hearts capitalism; The “secret sauce” behind NPR’s mic sound; All public media should be Creative Commons–licensed
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We contemplate the notion that public radio’s biggest star evidently doesn’t want public radio to be public anymore.