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
Focus on sources’ race won’t be enough to close public radio’s diversity deficit
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“If we in public radio are to live up to the ‘public’ part of our mission, we’ll have to change more than just the people we interview,” writes NPR’s Keith Woods.
Diversity in Public Media
Localore project at Oklahoma’s KOSU reveals possibilities for Native news coverage
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Approaching Native issues can be daunting to non-Native journalists.
Diversity in Public Media
Wanted: More career paths into leadership
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Managers and executives of color say the diversity deficit within top ranks is hindering public media’s progress.
System/Policy
Drive for diversity demands courage, commitment
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“This is about more than just the bottom line,” says CPB’s Joseph Tovares.
People
St. Paul station hires three, news VP joins WHYY, and more comings and goings in public media
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Also, NPR’s new Shanghai bureau chief is Rob Schmitz.
Quick Takes
Translator not necessarily included in sale of WAMU bluegrass station
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WAMU does not own or control the station’s translator near Bethesda, Md.
System/Policy
KPLU crowdsources search for new call letters
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But Public McRadioface isn’t in the cards.
Obituaries
Steve Bell, ‘voice of KCUR,’ dies at 77
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The veteran Kansas City, Mo., newscaster collapsed in the office Monday.
Stations
Texas station turns Pokémon Go gamers into PBS visitors
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Free PBS water bottles and PBS PokeStop pins went to the first five people to show up.
People
Renee Montagne to sign off ‘Morning Edition’ after election
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She will stay at NPR as a special correspondent.