Development
Nine pubcasters receive $100,000 Press Forward grants
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
The June through August 2024 period was, at best, sluggish for station fundraising across several key performance indicators compared to the same period in 2023.
Newsroom employees cited concerns with wages, vacation days and staffers leaving the organization.
Rewire launched in 2013 as a local engagement project and pivoted to become an online publication in 2016.
NPM is seeing “millions in return on our investment,” said CEO Gina Garrubbo.
Hoffman joined WUCF in 2016 after working for KMOS and stations in Akron, Ohio.
It’s never the subject that makes you unique — it’s what you do with the subject.
The majority of the funding is supporting the station’s live-events venue.
“The Cannabis Question” “is very different than the show that would have been on 10 years ago,” said neuroscientist Dr. Yasmin Hurd during the summer Television Critics Association press tour.
Nelson was senior director of programming for NPR.
Speaking during the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Burns said he supported PBS’ new initiatives to increase programming diversity.
Taylor succeeds Jon McTaggart, who announced last year plans to leave the organization.