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A $100,000 grant from Press Forward will help Radio Catskill in New York hire at least one additional reporter.
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A $100,000 grant from Press Forward will help Radio Catskill in New York hire at least one additional reporter.
The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
Isabel Reinert has led the station on an interim basis since August 2017.
An end to state funding could devastate Alaska’s small and medium-sized stations, according to the executive director of Alaska Public Broadcasting Inc.
“We’re basically raising the next generation of WTMD listeners at the shows,” said Sam Sessa, WTMD’s Baltimore music coordinator.
Top producers at five stations have devised a flexible approach for sharing news segments on timely national issues.
The open-space building incorporates classrooms, meeting centers and a media learning lab.
But to continue growing income and increasing donor value, stations will have to get better at upgrading sustainers.
Engineers at public TV stations in the Mountain West are still coping with wintry weather as they try to complete their pieces of the national conversion of translators to new channels.
Earlier James Baum led KRSC in Claremore, Okla.; WLVT in Bethlehem, Pa.; and KETC in St. Louis.
Station sites also benefited from Facebook’s “Today In” feature and a bump in search traffic.
Jim Dunford rises from VP of programming and operations into the new PBS position.