Tech
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.
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.
Tech
As some stations end HD Radio signals, others hold out hope for audience adoption
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HD Radio may not have met high expectations in the industry, but some station leaders still see value in its capacity to expand services.
System/Policy
Made for Public Media: To BIPOC colleagues, what is public media?
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“The mix of public media messages that I’m needed, but only to a hierarchical point, is a confounding conundrum.”
Programs/Content
New grant gives jazz stations a ‘monumental opportunity’
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The grant will create a “unique opportunity to learn from each other and to help and support each other,” said WBGO CEO Steve Williams.
Tech
Service-boosting ATSC 3.0 technology clears ‘important hurdle’ with FCC ruling
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The commission didn’t give public broadcasters everything they wanted, but a Jan. 19 decision paves the way for implementing distributed transmission systems that will aid ATSC 3 rollouts.
Featured in Category
Tammy Terwelp named CEO of KUNC
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Terwelp comes from Aspen Public Radio, where she is executive director.
System/Policy
Stations struggle to recruit, train new generation of broadcast engineers
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The workforce of broadcast engineers is reaching retirement age, and far fewer skilled young people are waiting in the wings to take on their roles.
People
Comings and goings: WNET adds DEI senior director, Nancy Dieterich retiring from GBH …
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Beryl Harold most recently worked for the Westchester Community Opportunity Program.
People
He drove them crazy, but reporters will miss ‘unstoppable’ NPR arts editor Tom Cole
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Retiring this week after 33 years at the network, Cole tested journalists’ patience but stood out as a devoted advocate for their work.
System/Policy
Pubcasters urge FCC to offer ‘flexibility’ on proposed foreign government sponsorship rules
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The FCC has signaled its intent to make broadcasters consistently identify when programs have received financial support from a foreign government.
People
NPR hires chief legal officer
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Elizabeth Allen, a former chief legal officer for Gannett, has experience “leading and guiding the kinds of strategic business decision making we need to do as we move NPR forward,” CEO John Lansing said.