Development
WBUR, Greater Public receive Knight grant for digital transformation
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The grant puts WBUR over the $9 million goal for Catapult, its initiative to improve digital fundraising and audience experience.
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The grant puts WBUR over the $9 million goal for Catapult, its initiative to improve digital fundraising and audience experience.
The breakthrough agreement bundles live feeds of 150 stations and ad-supported channels featuring dramas, documentaries and “Reading Rainbow.”
“What I hope I’m doing in offering my creative contributions is taking us to a new place in terms of actual original programming,” she says.
“Building radical listening and field recording into our program offerings announces to the audience that we understand our public service role as custodians of culture and media representation.”
WDET canceled “Created Equal” after negotiations with journalist Stephen Henderson hit an impasse.
Public radio has reached a breaking point, and the old ways of doing business are no longer viable.
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“The change that we’re going to see in the Trump administration may well roll back the balance of the New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society,” says historian Mark Updegrove in a Q&A with APT’s Jim Dunford. “I think we expect to see that.”
PBS Kids worked with autism experts to create the show, which aims to present many aspects of the condition.
The writer’s guild unit succeeded in rolling back management proposals that threatened its existence, said WGAE President Lisa Takeuchi Cullen.
Sarah Morris was elected to the NPR board of directors.
Board nominees announced last week are Carol Kellermann and Adam White.