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.
Programs/Content
The Moth partners with ‘Reader’s Digest’ for slate of live events
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The cross-promotional collaboration centers on live events and stories featured monthly in the magazine.
Quick Takes
Field of Vision launches as new online home for documentary films
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Field of Vision plans to commission as many as 50 short nonfiction documentaries per year on its website, which launched Tuesday.
Quick Takes
‘Serial’ could end up on your TV as well as your earbuds
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But not everyone thinks a TV version is such a good idea.
Quick Takes
ONA receives Knight Foundation grant to grow local journalism groups
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The Online News Association is looking to broaden digital training.
System/Policy
Google, staffers fail Clinton in 2010 bid to find NPR station
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Staffers were unresponsive for 27 hours while Clinton endured an public radio blackout.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #38: Robin Amer, winner of WNYC’s Podcast Accelerator competition
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If you want to know how to impress the likes of WNYC, pay attention to how Amer did it.
Programs/Content
PRPD attendees on what national show public radio needs
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Our second Question of the Day video from the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Pittsburgh.
Tech
Pubcasters hope FAA rule changes will ease use of drones
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The high cost of pilot licenses are keeping use of the technology out of reach for most broadcasters.
Obituaries
‘Exceptional’ public television programmer Nick Frazer dies at 64
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Frazer was the first programmer at KBDI in Denver.
System/Policy
Video from PRPD 2015: How are stations reaching more diverse audiences?
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Attendees at the Public Radio Program Directors conference answer our question of the day.