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.
Quick Takes
WHYY resignations reportedly disrupt talks about large grant
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The departure of Chris Satullo from WHYY has complicated talks about a potentially large grant to the station, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Saturday. According to the paper, Satullo, former v.p. of news, and Matt Golas, managing editor of WHYY’s PlanPhilly, recently pitched to four major philanthropies the idea of starting PlanBurgh, a website about urban planning in Pittsburgh. The site would be similar in scope to PlanPhilly, a Philadelphia website that WHYY acquired in February. Golas and Satullo sought to raise $1.5 million, according to the Inquirer. The two were meeting with foundation representatives before Satullo’s departure was revealed Sept.
Quick Takes
Board to decide on WBGU-TV spectrum auction plan Friday
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If WBGU sells its spectrum, the nearby city of Lima and its surrounding counties would no longer receive a public TV signal.
People
Davar Ardalan on the civic tech movement and life after NPR News
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The NPR producer has left the network to explore the potential of collaborative social-impact storytelling.
Programs/Content
With fellowships, Feet in 2 Worlds brings unheard voices and stories to public media
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The small nonprofit helps minority and immigrant reporters learn the ropes and advance their careers.
System/Policy
CPB, TPT receive Ready To Learn grants as budget fight looms
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The Department of Education awarded $25.5 million in grants in the latest round of RTL funding.
Programs/Content
Latino journalists win big, KCRW names Radio Race winner, and more pubmedia awards
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America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa won an Imagen Award.
Obituaries
Longtime public TV producer John Coney dies at 79
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Coney’s public broadcasting experience dates to 1956, when he began work at KQED in San Francisco as producer and director.
System/Policy
NPR expecting to end FY2015 with $1.5M surplus
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NPR is on track to reach a break-even budget or better for fiscal year 2015, which ends Sept. 30.
Quick Takes
Salt Institute looks to merger with Maine College of Art
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After announcing it would close, the Salt Institute is pursuing a partnership that could keep it in business.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #35: Torey Malatia is back; the youngest general managers in public media
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The most famous general manager in public radio is going to try again with another station.