Nice Above Fold - Page 373
The Pub, Episode 4: How women, people of color, and everyone else can sound more like themselves on the radio
We explore the origins, biases and limitations of the "public radio voice."St. Louis Public Radio mulls response to subpoena
St. Louis Public Radio received a subpoena Jan. 29 from the St. Louis circuit attorney for “all raw and aired video and audio footage” from a local meeting it reported on that turned chaotic. The radio station was reporting on a Jan. 28 “packed hearing” of the Public Safety Committee of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen about a proposed civilian review board for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The hearing “erupted . . . into a scuffle between supporters of the bill and its police opponents,” according to the station’s coverage. No arrests were made at the time, but an investigation about the incident is underway.CPB grants fund expansion of video journalism at regional centers
CPB is bolstering its financial support of five regional Local Journalism Collaborations to add video reporting units.
Firelight Media receives MacArthur grant for reserves, innovation fund
Firelight Media, based in New York, gets $500,000 to expand its reserves and establish an innovation fund to experiment with digital storytelling platforms.Spectrum auction issues dominate CPB Board meeting
CPB is aware of as many as six public television stations considering going off the air, said Michael Levy, e.v.p., during the meeting, which was held by phone.Not just about the money: Public radio veterans drawn to creative freedoms of podcasting
Podcasts with public radio connections dominate iTunes podcast charts, so it’s no wonder that podcasting companies are snapping up talented producers who earned their stripes in public media.
NPR aims to raise profile of its podcasts with new directory
NPR has a revamped, mobile-friendly hub for podcasts. But it isn't done improving its podcast technology.Five lessons public media can learn from commercial media
A public radio and TV CEO shares gleanings from Columbia University's Punch Sulzberger Program.To boost income, podcasters look to partnerships, native ads and listeners
Podcasters are creating business plans that are hybrids of unapologetically advertiser-based funding and direct listener support raised via crowdfunding, which in some cases is cultivated as monthly gifts.Nycklemoe heads Mountain Lake PBS, NPR shifts news staffers, and other comings and goings in public media
Nycklemoe succeeds Alice Recore, who became president in 2003 and retired Dec. 31.Proposed federal budget includes level CPB funding, support for Ready To Learn, new interconnection system
The CPB funds, which are approved two years before being paid out, not only stay at the current level but would include annual increases of roughly 2.2 percent through 2025.Louisiana network launches online archive of historic video
A new digital archive co-created by Louisiana Public Broadcasting contains more than 500 hours of streamable online video, including civil-rights era broadcasts, Louisiana-themed cooking shows and speeches by political leaders. The Louisiana Digital Media Archive went live Jan. 20 after more than five years of development, featuring videos from both public and commercial broadcasters. “One of our missions is to create TV worth watching,” said Beth Courtney, president of LPB and a 30-year veteran of the station. “If we’ve made 40 years of TV worth watching, it’s worth saving.” LPB inventoried and digitized video artifacts from the civil-rights and World War II eras as part of an American Archives pilot project in 2009, a CPB-funded effort to create a national archive of public television content.Public media women team up to tackle gender inequality in leadership
A group of female leaders has formed a committee to address issues of gender inequality in the executive ranks of public television and radio.How to pick theme music for your show, and how not to
The art of radio and TV theme music and how to improve it.The Pub, Episode 3: Podcasting tests definition of public media, Indiana governor does too
PRX CEO Jake Shapiro says “the definition of public media . . . has to be stretched.”
Featured Jobs
Current is an editorially independent, nonprofit service of the American University School of Communication. We're funded by your subscriptions, your donations, advertising, and a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation.