System/Policy
Stanley Nelson, John Oliver among WGA members petitioning stations for fair freelancer contracts
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The petition accuses GBH, WNET Group and PBS SoCal of delaying their response to the union’s demands.
The potential of AI voices: transforming news delivery and engagement
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With advancements from OpenAI and Meta, newsrooms may adapt and build new features to enhance the reader and listener experience.
Obituaries
Don Quayle, NPR’s first president, dies at 84
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Quayle’s vision for NPR was to provide “excellence and diversity to noncommercial radio.”
Tech
Winning student-created app matches listener’s interests to Public Media Platform content
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SoundStir, an Android app that lets users customize a feed of public radio stories and build communities around topics, took first place in the eighth annual Reynolds Journalism Institute Student Competition.
Quick Takes
KPBS’s Deanna Mackey to lead public TV’s Major Market Group
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Mackey takes the helm at the MMG in August.
Programs/Content
Affleck admits asking Gates to omit family’s slave-owning past from Finding Your Roots
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Affleck characterized his request to Henry Louis Gates, the show’s host, as part of the “collaborative creative process.”
Tech
Inconsistent Nielsen data vexes public radio stations and inspires a commercial solution
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A new audio processing device takes on a shortcoming of the Portable People Meter system.
Tech
Public Media Platform aims to expand reach with new tools
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The system developed for digital content distribution hopes to increase adoption among stations.
Programs/Content
Study of NPR’s Spark Initiative shows stations getting Morning Edition boost
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A study of 57 stations found that more than half saw audience growth during the promotional campaign.
Programs/Content
Maryland PTV hopes to ‘foster real action’ on Chesapeake issues
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The station identified seven experts and asked each to create a list of obstacles to a lasting cleanup of the bay, as well as alternative strategies.
Tech
Venturing off the Strip, engineering conference adds attendees for second year
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A new location for the conference helped to reduce costs.
Awards
Peabodys, IRE awards go to public media
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Serial is the first podcast to be recognized with a Peabody.