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A $100,000 grant from Press Forward will help Radio Catskill in New York hire at least one additional reporter.
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A $100,000 grant from Press Forward will help Radio Catskill in New York hire at least one additional reporter.
The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
Former NPR President Kevin Klose told Current the new hire will be “perfect for NPR.”
For the first time, a nonprofit news organization and a statewide public TV collaboration advance to the winner’s round.
Premiering on PBS Sept. 15, the documentarian’s latest film follows the evolution of country music from 1923 to the mid-1990s.
David Safar previously worked as head of music, artist and label relations for the Minnesota Public Radio station.
Escape Lab, a social video series from WGBH, is designed to connect younger audiences with public media.
“Commercial radio has seen that there’s a lot of revenue here, and they’re all crowding our lane,” said Nancy Barnes at the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference.
These tunes have a glitchy vibe that only professional sound nerds could come up with.
The station in Kansas City, Mo., was chosen in part to counter coastal biases in coverage.
The station’s 12th podcast, a look at the art scene in Tijuana and San Diego, pushed it to explore new strategies for keeping listeners engaged.
To one viewer and parent, competitive pressures and fading institutional knowledge have compromised the show’s “gritty urban utopianism.”