System/Policy
CPB awards $2.65M for state government coverage
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
“Southwest Florida in Focus,” a half-hour of TV news for Fort Myers and beyond, launched as a cost-effective model for producing local coverage.
As public media heads into its next 50 years, shifting strategies to focus on content “will require a hard turn and painful decisions that affect finances, people and structures.”
The station will hire an on-demand producer, develop podcasts, create content to serve “diverse audiences” and “uncover unique, untold stories.”
Trainers Judith Smelser and Mike Marcotte discuss the new skills required when a reporter moves into a leadership position.
Bloom adapted magazine publishers’ practices of list-buying and direct-mail testing to public broadcasting membership programs.
CPB had given $30,000 to help the station recover from hurricane damage.
The interactive game feature should roll out later this year, according to PBS.
Witherspoon was the first director of television at CPB.
Trainers Judith Smelser and Michael Marcotte offer tips on everything from time management to planning for crisis coverage, all while dealing with challenging personality types in the newsroom.
“Public media is especially crucial now, both to seek objective truth and to envision a sustainable model for the future of local journalism.”
The president of Las Vegas Public Radio is asking for punitive damages of $1.7 million as well as other monetary damages.