System/Policy
Texas Public Radio employees seek to unionize amid leadership transition
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The staffers say the union would “safeguard our organization’s future success.”
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The staffers say the union would “safeguard our organization’s future success.”
“As traditional broadcast gives way to new media, public television needs to dust off its early spirit of scrappy, decentralized innovation.”
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.
Journalist Julio Ricardo Varela is guiding high school students as they report on the Latino vote in western Massachusetts.
“Sometimes, the most valuable insights come from looking beyond our immediate environment.”
After the hurricane wiped out infrastructure across western North Carolina, BPR focused on basic information, such as road outages and where to get drinking water.
Anderson, who has directed Oklahoma’s public TV network since 2017, previously led WUCF in Orlando, Fla., and New Mexico PBS.
Stephen Budihas was named VP of operations for Lehigh Valley Public Media.
Titterton built a statewide network of transmitters and translators at HPR, where he was also well known for his performances of joyful exuberance during live pledge drives.
The layoffs were part of a “larger cost-saving plan to balance revenue with expenses,” said CEO Sandra Clark.
CPM will hire an AI Fellow to work on projects for “improving business sustainability and implementing AI technologies.”
“The tools of audio storytelling and documentary have never been as needed as they are today.”