Tech
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.
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.
System/Policy
CPB increases annual funding to public TV’s multicultural alliance
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Each of the nonprofits that fund and support public TV content by and for diverse communities will receive an additional $500,000.
Programs/Content
‘Fast-Forward’ challenges viewers to have tough conversations about aging
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A documentary debuting March 24 follows millennials and their boomer parents as they navigate an “aging boot camp.”
Tech
Acast acquisition will ‘supercharge’ RadioPublic’s development
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An Acast executive said RadioPublic “brings even better tools and deep … secret-sauce technology” to the Sweden-based podcast company.
System/Policy
Former WTTW news director says colleagues’ objections to social media posts prompted ‘unfair’ firing
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The station said Hugo Balta’s departure resulted from “undisclosed conflicts of interest” and violations of news standards.
Featured in Category
Comings and goings: Cincinnati Public Radio hires VP of content, New York Public Radio adds chief HR officer …
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Jenell Walton most recently worked as VP of communications and strategic development for the Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau.
System/Policy
Why the survival of community stations depends on staying live and local
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“Success can be defined in so many ways and is not limited just to ratings and weekly cumes.”
Tech
Windscreens, Post-Its and DAWs: more tech tool recommendations from our readers
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We still love technology, always and forever.
People
Longtime WSHU leader George Lombardi retires
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A. Rima Dael has taken over as GM of the station.
ATSC 3.0
Watch our webinar about ATSC 3.0 and HD Radio
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We discuss these technologies with Steve Bass, CEO of Oregon Public Broadcasting.
System/Policy
CPB data shows ‘incremental growth’ in racial diversity across stations
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The data also reveals that men and women held equal shares of jobs in the system in 2020.