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CPB provides $1.9M to bolster editorial oversight at NPR
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
A $100,000 grant from Press Forward will help Radio Catskill in New York hire at least one additional reporter.
“Kit has been a transformational leader in public media,” said Julie Adler Raskind, board chair for ideastream.
The board also heard messages of support for CEO Jarl Mohn.
The host and producer of the award-winning podcast share tips for framing investigative stories.
WVPT’s licensee approved the merger “to strengthen its operational and strategic position moving forward.”
“I am unable to devote the amount of time that the current situation … demands of the NPR board chair to be truly effective,” said Roger LaMay.
Nancy Zieman had announced her retirement due to health issues in September.
A conference session followed up on an at times contentious panel discussion at last year’s event.
The station’s former GM says public media’s mission statement should be “To be important.”
Nearly one-third of podcast “super listeners” told researchers they had donated money to their local public radio stations in the last year, according to a new report.
In the late 1970s, the critiques by CPB’s Minority Task Force pushed NPR to increase minority employment and training programs and served as a case study in why racial diversity in decision-making bodies matters.