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Programs/Content

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

By Justin Hicks, Data Reporter (Kentucky Public Radio/Louisville Public Media) | 3 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 | 5 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.

System/Policy

It’s time to stop giving ‘the talent’ a pass on bullying

By Celeste Headlee, Author and Journalist | May 25, 2021

“Our culture of host hero worship creates monsters, and it is long past time to break this cycle.”

System/Policy

SAG-AFTRA files unfair labor practice claim against NYPR

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | May 24, 2021

Union members at the station said they “feel like they could be next if they do speak up.”

Programs/Content

How NPR and stations are working together to expand regional news

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | May 24, 2021

NPR and stations have found early success at attracting support from major donors and adding reporting capacity to the system with a journalism hubs model.

Programs/Content

The missing middle: Reimagining a future for tweens, teens and public media

By Monica Bulger, Mary Madden, Senior Fellow (Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop), Kiley Sobel, Research Scientist (Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop) and Patrick Davison, Program Manager for Research Production and Editorial (Data & Society Research Institute) | May 24, 2021

Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center report on how public media can create media that’s relevant to the lives of the teens and tweens who make up Gen Z.