Programs/Content
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.
Why public media must support colleagues in the path of climate disasters
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We in public media often refer to our little world as “the system.” If we are, in fact, an interdependent system, fundraising to support fellow stations and staffers in distress is the kind of thing we can do to prove it.
Quick Takes
Guardian News & Media launching mobile innovation lab with $2.6M Knight grant
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Results will be shared with the news industry as a whole.
Programs/Content
A CPB board member urges pubmedia to fill void in local news
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“Local journalism is a niche that is being neglected by the commercial marketplace.”
People
CPB hires communications head, and more comings and goings in public media
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And Michael May, a radio producer and instructor, is the first senior producer for NPR’s Storytelling Lab initiative.
Quick Takes
Hello neighbor, nice baseball jersey you have there
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Baseball uniforms paying tribute to Mister Rogers’ famous red cardigan take to the field next month at a special minor-league game.
Spectrum Auction
Court denies NAB challenge to aspects of spectrum auction
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FCC Chair Wheeler said the decision provides “the certainty necessary to proceed apace toward a successful auction in the first quarter of next year.”
Programs/Content
Women’s podcasting festival brings together ‘kindred spirits’
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Attendees seeking hands-on help batted around ideas and refined pitches with top producers, directors and hosts.
Programs/Content
WBEZ cuts afternoon program, bolsters morning show
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The station laid off the show’s host and reassigned staff to a morning program.
"The Pub" Podcast
The Pub #22: Curious City creator Jennifer Brandel goes national
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Brandel’s national spin-off, Hearken, aims to help journalists learn what their audiences want and need to know.
Programs/Content
NPR ends distribution of ‘Intelligence Squared U.S.’
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The move ends a nearly 10-year-old distribution relationship between NPR and the debate show.
Obituaries
Margaret Juntwait, host of Met Opera broadcasts, dies at 58
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The former WNYC host started her career at the station by writing a fan letter.