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.
People
Comings and goings: NPR promotes two on news team, WTVP promotes Baker …
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Didi Schanche becomes the network’s chief international editor.
System/Policy
Kansas, New Mexico stations will add content to pubcasting archive
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Grants are supporting a digitization project involving stations in the states and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
History of public media
After 50 years, NPR upholds public broadcasting’s founding values
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NPR was incorporated Feb. 26, 1970, marking a new stage in the growth of a public media system rooted in education.
System/Policy
At APTS Summit, Butler says FEMA grant program would be government’s ‘best investment’ in public safety
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CPB has asked the Department of Homeland Security to set aside funds for public broadcasting emergency communications.
People
KOSU names Rachel Hubbard executive director
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Hubbard has been serving as interim director since 2019.
System/Policy
How to fight Trump’s ‘Capitol punishment’ for public media
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When racist radio host Rush Limbaugh gets a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a standing ovation in Congress, Current’s executive director is worried that this year’s lobbying effort may not be enough to save federal funding for public broadcasting.
Programs/Content
New podcast focuses on stories of recovery, with a host who’s been there
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Vic Vela, a journalist and recovering drug addict, hosts Colorado Public Radio’s “Back From Broken.”
System/Policy
Newest journalism hub will expand coverage in Gulf States
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Four stations in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana will form the collaborative newsroom.
Featured in Category
Comings and goings: Katherine Arno becomes VP at CPB, Vegas PBS hires development director …
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Arno will oversee the Community Service Grant program.