Tech
The potential of AI voices: transforming news delivery and engagement
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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
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It takes some planning to create a voter guide that geolocates users, but the payoff is entirely worth it.
Quick Takes
Radiotopia narrows field in podcast contest
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At least one finalist will be chosen in November to become a member of Radiotopia.
People
KJZZ staffs Mexico City bureau, WKAR GM steps down, and other comings and goings in public media
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Also, a public radio veteran in California announces his retirement.
System/Policy
Reduction in funding for Oklahoma network ‘cuts right through the bone’
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Public media in the state is taking a blow from a dire funding crisis.
Development
With help from friends, WYEP exceeds fundraising goal
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Through June, the station is using social media to encourage listeners to give by posting a video of themselves singing the Beatles rock classic, “With a Little Help from my Friends.”
Obituaries
NPR photographer and translator killed in Afghanistan
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NPR Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Monika Evstatieva escaped injury.
Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio newsroom votes to unionize
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MPR is the latest public radio newsroom to join SAG-AFTRA.
Programs/Content
Podcasts with local focus can help stations own their markets
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“Podcasts help you tell the vital story of your unique little patch of dirt. And every single public radio outlet should be making them.”
Programs/Content
World Channel revisits iconic documentary series with new pledge special
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The 30-minute show, which discusses how racial relations of today are reflected in the civil rights movement, is part of a package that includes rebroadcast rights for Eyes on the Prize I and II.
CPB
Worrisome trend in CPB analysis: Too many PTV stations taking on too much debt
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The number of licensees carrying debt ratios of more than 50 percent has nearly tripled since 2009, according to CPB’s latest “state of the system” report.