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.
System/Policy
NPR’s Oreskes on leave following sexual harassment accusations
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The Washington Post reported that NPR is investigating complaints by two women who allege Oreskes made inappropriate contact with them in the 1990s.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #102: Why WHYY retired its NewsWorks site
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The Philadelphia station has doubled down on a call-letters-dot-org online identity.
People
Garland McLaurin: Like America, public broadcasting is a work in progress
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“When I think about public media, I think about what Frantz Fanon said: ‘What matters is not to know the world but to change it.'”
Programs/Content
KRCB tests cross-platform approach to cover California wildfires
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As the crisis spread across Sonoma County, KRCB’s small team tested new ways to report for TV, radio and social media.
System/Policy
After historic efforts to weaken pubmedia, ‘just be amazed that anything gets done’
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The decentralized, financially dependent structure of public broadcasting is “a feature, not a bug.”
Quick Takes
LocusPoint sues to stop sale of California public TV station
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A spokesperson for KCSM’s licensee called the complaint “frivolous.”
Programs/Content
Vermont PBS bets on local pride with ‘Made Here’ slate of films
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The station’s promotion of local filmmakers has drawn younger viewers and fueled pledge-drive success.
Quick Takes
‘Dinner Party Download’ to end production
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The show is going off the air in part due to funding challenges.
System/Policy
Ken Stern: Don’t deny an obvious truth about the media
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In a response to criticism from a public radio reporter, Stern contends that the media still need a broader diversity of political views.
Quick Takes
WAMU to begin offering evening version of ‘1A’
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The new version will be available to stations Nov. 13.