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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) | 40 mins 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 | 3 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

Vermont PBS, Vermont Public Radio announce plans to merge by July 2021

By Julian Wyllie, Reporter | September 10, 2020

Officials said the new station will be able to expand programming and services.

People

Jim Rademaker named GM of WCMU

By Julian Wyllie, Reporter | September 9, 2020

Rademaker joined the station in 2015 and has been interim GM since May 2019.

System/Policy

Georgia Public Broadcasting adds programming to university station

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | September 8, 2020

The change replaces music on the station.

Programs/Content

Opportunities and questions abound in the shifting marketplace for documentaries

By Caty Borum Chattoo, Executive Director (Center for Media & Social Impact) | September 8, 2020

In an excerpt from the new book “Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change,” Caty Borum Chattoo considers how the expanding documentary marketplace might affect the stories served up to audiences.