System/Policy
StoryCorps lays off nine employees
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The layoffs were part of a “larger cost-saving plan to balance revenue with expenses,” said CEO Sandra Clark.
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The layoffs were part of a “larger cost-saving plan to balance revenue with expenses,” said CEO Sandra Clark.
CPM will hire an AI Fellow to work on projects for “improving business sustainability and implementing AI technologies.”
A public radio producer lays out an argument for how unfettered advertising on podcasts compromises public media’s mission.
Writing for The Seattle Times, a communications professor and former reporter and producer for the city’s KCTS-TV argues that the station should sell its broadcast spectrum and cede local public TV service to Tacoma’s KBTC. “Our region deserves better,” writes Barry Mitzman, now a teacher of strategic communications at Seattle University. Stations duplicating PBS programming are “inefficient,” he argues. “Regional consolidation might save money that could be invested in programs,” Mitzman continues. “Many states, including Oregon and Idaho, have unified public-TV systems that produce more original content — often much more — than KCTS does.”
With KBTC airing much the same programming as KCTS, the Tacoma station could take over a KCTS transmitter.
VuHaus gathers in-studio music videos already being produced by Triple A–format stations onto a single platform.
In a commentary, the This American Life creator elaborates on his claim that “public radio is ready for capitalism.”
Execs from the networks told PBS Annual Meeting attendees Tuesday about their plans for collaboration.
A D.C. Superior Court judge denied NPR’s motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging misrepresentation of job duties and failure to accommodate a disability.
PBS is moving ahead with plans to return most of its distribution to ground level via a new fiber-based system that promises more versatility.
The Public Media Platform is seeking stations to help test a new tool.
Funds will go toward hiring a new executive producer and supporting the podcast network’s independent producers.
Starting July 1, PBS will end its nearly decade-long affiliation with the MediaShift network of blogs.