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Nashville classical station will go Triple A in bid for bigger audience
Nashville Public Radio hopes to expand its news department with income from the new "music discovery" station.Comings and goings: Carline Watson named EP of ‘Here & Now,’ chief legal officer leaves NPR …
Watson was previously talent development manager for NPR, where she worked for more than 20 years.KUTX podcast explores pandemic’s impact on Austin’s live music scene
Launched in September, "Pause/Play" is the station's most popular podcast to date.
Race discrimination suit against NPR gets go-ahead in court
The network had moved to dismiss a complaint filed in June by a former technician.Hannah Colton, news director and reporter at KUNM, dies at 29
“Hannah loved being a reporter. She was a gifted storyteller. She was great at meeting people and talking with them, asking good questions and really listening to the answers.”MPR receives $250,000 grant to expand community engagement
MPR plans to hire a community engagement officer and hold diversity trainings for newsroom staff.
For broadcasters, time is of the essence — and a well-honed sixth sense
If you work in radio, you live by the clock — preferably a big digital one.Microsoft grants aid journalism in public media newsrooms
Broadcasters will use the funds to support interns and expand coverage of the pandemic, health care, criminal justice and other topics.Comings and goings: Emily Loya leaves Texas Tech Public Media, Joe Goetz joins Classical MPR …
Loya was one of the youngest leaders of a public media station.Alec Baldwin is moving his podcast from WNYC to iHeartRadio
The last episode of "Here's the Thing" as a WNYC podcast was released this week.Proposed funding in Senate leaves out $50M bump for CPB
Increased funding could support remote-learning services amid the pandemic, argued APTS CEO Pat Butler.How Wisconsin Public Radio is using surveys to track diversity of its sources
By inviting people who appear on air to share their demographic data, WPR created a way to accurately measure the diversity of sources in its news and talk programs.Longtime KQED host Michael Krasny announces retirement
Kransy has hosted KQED's "Forum" since 1993.Pipeline 2021: Our annual survey of shows coming to public TV
Current’s latest survey of new programs coming to public TV provides a snapshot of 117 productions in the works for national distribution.Film explores 'quiet revolutionary' behind groundbreaking TV show of Black culture
"Ellis Haizlip ensured that the revolution would be televised, and the revolution was 'Soul!'”
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