Current

Programs/Content

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

By Justin Hicks, Data Reporter (Kentucky Public Radio/Louisville Public Media) | 14 hours ago

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

By Julie Drizin, Executive Director | 16 hours ago

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.

Podcasting

What a public radio program director learned at Podcast Movement 2015

By Tammy Terwelp | August 5, 2015

Roman Mars is a hero, there’s a problem with dude overload, and more.

Programs/Content

PBS appeals to indie filmmakers with bigger marketing budget, multiplatform strategy

By Luis Gomez | August 5, 2015

An arts festival will promote a documentary about Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, among other films.

System/Policy

After sale of Classical South Florida, scramble is on to ensure coverage in Palm Beach

By | August 4, 2015

A former director of Classical South Florida’s board is looking to buy back one of the signals sold to a religious broadcaster.

Programs/Content

Why APM’s ‘Wits’ didn’t make it

By Ken Mills | August 3, 2015

There are lessons for everyone in public media from the rise and abrupt fall of the variety show.

PBS

Kerger on end of ‘Downton’: “Great television begets great television”

By Barry Garron, Freelance Contributor | August 3, 2015

”We really have an abundance of programs that have been pitched to us.“

NPR

NPR’s Michael Oreskes: “There probably hasn’t been enough change inside NPR”

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | July 31, 2015

NPR’s new head of news discusses the future of All Things Considered, achieving diversity, and the need for more collaboration among NPR and member stations.

"The Pub" Podcast

‘The Pub’ #29: Michael Oreskes, NPR’s new head of news, on station collaboration, host changes and liberal bias

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | July 30, 2015

Oreskes wants NPR and member stations to collaborate more seamlessly, both to break more and better news, but also to better reflect the entirety of the country.