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NPR updates newsmag strategy to address audience declines
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The changes include shorter segments, a broader range of topics and more “joy.”
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The changes include shorter segments, a broader range of topics and more “joy.”
A defining characteristic of public media is behind the theme answers in this month’s puzzle.
NJ PBS received $1 million, its first appropriation in a decade, while seven Pennsylvania stations lost support.
Van Hoesen joined the station in 2001.
The staffers are seeking voluntary recognition of their union from CEO Jim Schachter.
“It’s BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It’s not people who are from outside the South coming in and telling what they conceive of the South.”
Board member Ruby Calvert said setting aside the initiative for another year is “the right thing to do.”
WHUT’s broadcast signal will get new equipment and a power boost to serve as the ATSC 3.0 host station, carrying not only its own programming but streams from four major commercial stations.
In an alternate reality in 1983, NPR President Frank Mankiewicz, desperate for cash, unloads the network’s arts programs on a consortium of major-market stations. Where would arts programming be today?
PBS CFO and Treasurer Tom Tardivo said the new dues amount to a “modest increase.”
Tong has worked for “Marketplace” for more than 16 years.
Hendryx previously worked for newspapers in Kansas and radio stations in Texas.