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.
Quick Takes
WGBH and former woodworking host end legal dispute
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The former host claimed a new WGBH woodworking show used his name, image and trademark without permission.
Programs/Content
New MPR-backed site hopes to be ‘one-stop shop for all things immigrant’
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Support from Minnesota Public Radio is enabling a website covering the state’s immigrant communities to expand into a full-time venture for its founder.
People
Thompson to lead Center for Investigative Reporting, APTS chooses trustees, and other comings and goings
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Matt Thompson will oversee CIR’s newsroom and its “Reveal” show and podcast.
Development
With more freedom on podcasts, pubmedia producers seek middle ground on commercial tone
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To answer a reader’s question, we asked NPR and WBUR how they approach advertising on podcasts.
A DJ looks back on 50 years on jazz radio in the nation’s capital
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Rusty Hassan has seen shows and stations come and go during his long career on Washington, D.C., airwaves, and he’s still at it.
System/Policy
WBUR employees set to vote on joining union
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“We appreciate management working with us and can’t wait to get started making WBUR an even better place to work,” a producer said.
Local that Works
North Country project on work is ‘embedded into the life of the station’
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The North Country at Work team now produces community events and storytelling evenings.
NPR
NPR White House reporter Scott Horsley moves to business desk
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Scott Horsley replaces John Ydstie, who retired in November.
Programs/Content
Alaska Public Media grant will enhance coverage of rural health
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The broadcaster received $500,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
System/Policy
Rhode Island PBS sticks with host after blackface photo emerges
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A 1986 photo depicted talk show host Jim Hummel dressed as Tubbs from “Miami Vice” for a Halloween party.