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.
System/Policy
KVCR licensee weighs plan to drop NPR and PBS programs, end role with FNX
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The interim chancellor of the San Bernardino Community College District is recommending that the district convert its public TV and radio stations into a media training lab by 2023.
Programs/Content
Collaboration explores diversity of young Latino electorate
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“It starts shattering the monolith of Latinos or youth,” says a contributor to Every 30 Seconds.
Programs/Content
With down-to-earth discussions, GBH’s ‘All Rev’d Up’ highlights issues of faith and Black experience
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“The faith that we have is like blood in our bodies. … We can talk about real life, and you’ll see the stream of faith come through that.”
System/Policy
Staffers at WAMU and WBGO seek recognition of unions
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The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is representing both groups.
Programs/Content
Podcast explores racial inequities in criminal justice through hip-hop
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NPR Music’s “Louder Than a Riot” explores hip-hop as a “microcosm for the Black American experience” with the criminal justice system.
Development
Houston Public Media to receive its largest-ever gift
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The planned gift was made as part of a larger university fundraising campaign.
People
Comings and goings: David Greene leaving NPR’s ‘Morning Edition,’ John Barth retiring from PRX …
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Greene will leave Dec. 29 to “focus on other projects,” according to the network.
Featured in Category
How NPR can take cues from other broadcasters in its quest to broaden audience
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An excerpt from a new book suggests that NPR look to the past and overseas for examples of programming with wider appeal.