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.
Stations
APMG plans organizational changes, no more ‘business as usual’
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An internal memo announced structural changes and cuts to staff and programs as part of an effort to focus resources.
Diversity
How KPCC worked to grow its Latino audience in Los Angeles
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It took getting through a difficult period of culture change at the station.
Quick Takes
Study points to lack of diversity on NPR and member station boards
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A new study finds that boards of NPR and eight large-market public radio stations are made up mostly of men, white people and people with corporate connections.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #25: You’ve been a bad, bad BBC
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The world’s biggest public broadcaster is under the microscope, and its funding is in jeopardy.
Development
Coming finale of ‘Downton Abbey’ puts public TV’s sales reps on edge
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With nearly $1 million in local underwriting on the line, PBS is piloting an initiative to bolster sponsorships.
System/Policy
While NPR employees negotiate, staffers at two stations approve first union contracts
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NPR staffers are taking to Twitter to call attention to union negotiations.
Awards
Public radio reigns in national Murrows, PRNDI announces winners, and more awards in public media
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Hawaii Public Radio’s coverage of a lava flow won two awards in the Radio Television Digital News Association competition.
System/Policy
News directors’ conference focuses on diversity in hiring and reporting
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The Public Radio News Directors conference featured a pair of sessions on the subject.
Development
Survey finds that stations should explain use of donors’ gifts
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A survey of donors to 11 stations explored why they give to public media.
System/Policy
Florida legislature cuts funding for PBS LearningMedia
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The funds would have supported adapting the PBS materials to state standards.