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PodScanning: Podcasters take to the big screen
A live podcast event will be shown in hundreds of movie theaters Tuesday, and more podcasting news.Greater Public losing Fox, Siegal takes helm of BizLab, and other comings and goings in public media
June Fox worked at Greater Public, formerly DEI, for 15 years.Studying NPR One’s data: “You’re like the first doctor who ever saw an X-ray”
NPR’s Sara Sarasohn explains what the network is learning about the listening habits and preferences of NPR One users.
NPR plans environmental reporting project with stations
NPR is seeking about a dozen reporters from stations to contribute to the new project.Wisconsin’s new budget cuts funds to state pubcasters, educational media
The cuts are less than Gov. Scott Walker initially recommended but will still curb some educational media offerings.‘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 the way.
Maria Hinojosa of ‘Latino USA’ delivers talk at TED event in Washington
Hinojosa was among the speakers at the first TEDxPennsylvaniaAvenue event last month.New low-power stations prepare for launch in D.C. area
They’re just two of many stations preparing to sign on across the country.Survey finds slight decline in diversity of TV and radio workforces
Public media’s edge over commercial media in representation of people of color has vanished.Commercial TV owner gives Helena station to Montana PBS
The new station will allow licensee Montana State University to operate a full-power PBS member station in the state capital for the first time.The last days of ‘Soul!’: Why a trailblazing show about black issues couldn’t last
An excerpt from a new book looks at the shifts in funding that doomed the documenting of an era.Profile 2015 study sizes up education, spending habits of NPR listeners
A quarter of NPR listeners watch no prime-time television.Hazen Schumacher, host who introduced audiences to classic jazz, dies at 88
Schumacher’s Jazz Revisited aired for 30 years.Keillor’s goal by fall 2016: ‘To be a gray eminence’
Keillor wants to "fade away into well-deserved obscurity."On ‘R-words’ that the media shouldn’t (or maybe should) say
Rather than putting our energy into avoiding taking sides on the use of offensive terms, let’s put that energy into picking the right side.
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