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Tech

The potential of AI voices: transforming news delivery and engagement

By Michael Crystal, Author (Generative AI in the Newsroom) | 23 mins ago

With advancements from OpenAI and Meta, newsrooms may adapt and build new features to enhance the reader and listener experience.

Kentucky Public Radio’s recipe for a statewide voter guide success

By Justin Hicks, Data Reporter (Kentucky Public Radio/Louisville Public Media) | 20 hours ago

It takes some planning to create a voter guide that geolocates users, but the payoff is entirely worth it.

People

Andrew Patner, arts critic for Chicago’s WFMT, dies at 55

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | February 10, 2015

Patner was a longtime critic-at-large for WFMT in Chicago and host of the station’s show Critical Thinking.

Programs/Content

New Regional Journalism Centers will feed national public media news programs

By Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor | February 10, 2015

CPB will establish regional journalism hubs to strengthen news services in their areas and to deliver more locally produced segments to public media’s national programs.

Programs/Content

Serial subject granted appeal

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | February 9, 2015

Adnan Syed, the subject of the podcast, has a chance to overturn his life sentence for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend.

Fresh Air

WHYY awarded grant to archive 38 years of Fresh Air

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | February 9, 2015

Around 8,000 episodes of Fresh Air will be made available to the public in 2016.

Invisibilia

Q&A: Mohn leads NPR into ‘golden age of spoken word’

By Ben Mook, Former Reporter | February 9, 2015

An in-depth talk with NPR’s president about program strategy, his Spark initiative, NPR’s digital future and more.

Programs/Content

The first of our new improved weekly roundups — now with more content

By Mike Janssen, Digital Editor | February 6, 2015

This week: the Congressional Downtown Abbey office, new conferences, digital wisdom and more.

Stations

After backlash, board at Pa. pubcaster buys out exec’s contract

By Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor | February 6, 2015

News of the former CEO’s compensation had spurred donors to withhold renewals.

Awards

Calif. pubcasters take home Golden Mikes, and more awards in public media

By | February 6, 2015

Public radio stations KCLU in Thousand Oaks and Southern California Public Radio in Pasadena took home both awards for best use of sound in addition to several accolades for reporting.

Programs/Content

WNYC plans new podcasts in push to build on successes

By Jon Kalish, Freelance Contributor | February 5, 2015

Indies aren’t the only public radio producers to recognize that there’s gold in them there podcast hills.

"The Pub" Podcast

The Pub, Episode 4: How women, people of color, and everyone else can sound more like themselves on the radio

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | February 5, 2015

We explore the origins, biases and limitations of the “public radio voice.”