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Ow, Canada: Cross-border crackdowns take toll on station donations
Border broadcasters are taking various approaches to handling challenges to Canadian friends groups.‘Prairie Home’ host announces new house band
Two members are in Thile’s band Punch Brothers.Philadelphia’s WXPN reaches membership milestone
The station’s donor base grew 11 percent over two years.
Podcast audiences look increasingly like America
The ethnic diversity of podcast listeners has grown in the last five years.WGBH, WNET Writers Guild members agree to new contract
The deal provides a 3 percent increase in minimum salaries effective July 1, 2016.Wyoming Public Radio expands Triple A music
The new music programming will air on three FM signals.
Channeling Charles Siepmann for public media’s future
The media reformer and scholar urged listeners to remember that the “wavelengths of the air belong to the people of America.”Pubmedia win several awards at AAJA convention
Pubmedia producers won awards in several categories at the Asian-American Journalists Association’s national convention this month in Las Vegas.APM, Washington Post seek submissions for new podcast on black history
Submissions will be considered for “Historically Black,” an eight-episode weekly podcast set to launch Sept. 19.Code Switch’s Montgomery to lead WAMU newsroom, Perzel leaves Cincinnati, and more comings and goings in public media
Alicia Montgomery will be editorial director at the Washington, D.C., station.‘The Pub’ #74: NPR ditches online comments — should you?
Can comments work, or are time and money better spent on other forms of engagement?Orlando station’s podcast on space exploration draws national audience
In conversations with engineers, scientists, visionaries and others, host Brendan Byrne discusses advances in space exploration.StoryCorps announces 2017 destinations for mobile recording studio
The Airstream trailer turned recording studio will visit 10 cities.Second season coming for PBS Kids’ ‘Ready Jet Go!’
Licensed toys and other products will be available, along with related web games and mobile apps.A reader asks: What’s Public Radio International’s future within WGBH?
We’re answering the question for the latest story in our Currently Curious series.
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