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
KUSP still considering options, but sale no longer among them
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The station is likely to air more music, but additional details are yet to be decided.
People
Dugas to take helm in Wyoming, and other comings and goings in public media
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And DeAnne Hamilton will leave WESA-FM in Pittsburgh July 17.
Programs/Content
How Hearken works with audiences to set the news agenda
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“The whole idea starts with bringing the audience into the editorial process from the very moment of story creation.”
FCC
FCC declines to protect public TV in 2016 spectrum auction
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In a ruling issued Friday, the FCC also denied a petition to protect TV translators, which many rural stations use.
Programs/Content
Five steps toward creating a true news network for public radio
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We have more journalists than the New York Times, but are we having as much of an impact?
Documentaries
AFI honors Stanley Nelson, public TV’s ‘filmmaker of black experience’
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Though Nelson didn’t particularly take to that title.
Quick Takes
Pastor killed in South Carolina church shooting was featured in PBS documentary
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Rev. Clementa Pinckney appeared in the 2013 PBS documentary ‘The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’
Awards
Charlie Rose wins Cronkite Award, and other awards in public media
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Rose joins past winners including Tom Brokaw and Diane Sawyer.
Podcasting
PodScanning: ‘Marketplace’ teams with business site Quartz on podcast
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A music station also starts a podcast for and about young people.
System/Policy
U.S. pubcasters visit Kiev to advise on creating public media network
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Representatives from CPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Association of Independents in Radio are in Ukraine’s capital.