System/Policy
Stanley Nelson, John Oliver among WGA members petitioning stations for fair freelancer contracts
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The petition accuses GBH, WNET Group and PBS SoCal of delaying their response to the union’s demands.
The potential of AI voices: transforming news delivery and engagement
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With advancements from OpenAI and Meta, newsrooms may adapt and build new features to enhance the reader and listener experience.
Quick Takes
New NPR tool provides richer data about podcast listening
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Remote Audio Data aims to help podcast creators and advertisers better understand their audiences.
Programs/Content
Creating ‘After Paradise,’ a public radio show for Northern California’s fire-ravaged communities
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How North State Public Radio’s exhausted news staff and a veteran public radio journalist conceived, birthed and launched a half-hour daily show within 72 hours.
Programs/Content
With generous help from volunteers, overextended California station creates local show about wildfire recovery
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After the regional Society of Professional Journalists put out a call for journalists to help North State Public Radio’s two-person newsroom, veteran host Tess Vigeland stepped in to direct the launch of “After Paradise,” a daily news show.
Programs/Content
WGBH collaboration with NASA to yield new resources for space education
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Over 50 activities allow students of all ages to learn about complicated space phenomena.
System/Policy
‘Car Talk’ donation program splits from CARS/V-Dac merger
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An announcement from “Car Talk” EP Doug Berman surprised competitor CARS and left some stations flummoxed.
System/Policy
Alaska pubcasters pitch in to help Koahnic, station hit hardest by quake damage
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Koahnic’s KNBA may not be able to return to its studios and offices for months.
People
Evans to leave PRPD, W.Va. pubcaster picks new leader and other comings and goings
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Jody Evans, selected to lead PRPD in 2014, wants to return to working at a station.
System/Policy
Public media must reimagine itself for a new era — or give up ‘reason to exist’
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“The time is right to re-examine basic assumptions about public media and to ask, anew, essential questions,” writes an outgoing CPB board member.
Programs/Content
New PBS policy for overlap markets would tighten rules, give Passport to secondary stations
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The proposed revisions to the Program Differentiation Plan are the first major update since 1995.
About Current
Letter from the executive director: Checking your list twice
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