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Tech

The potential of AI voices: transforming news delivery and engagement

By Michael Crystal, Author (Generative AI in the Newsroom) | 23 mins ago

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

By Justin Hicks, Data Reporter (Kentucky Public Radio/Louisville Public Media) | 20 hours ago

It takes some planning to create a voter guide that geolocates users, but the payoff is entirely worth it.

Spectrum Auction

Stations moving to VHF should receive equal treatment in auction, pubcasters tell FCC officials

By Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor | June 24, 2015

Public broadcasters met with FCC Chair Tom Wheeler and other commission officials Monday.

Quick Takes

KUSP still considering options, but sale no longer among them

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | June 24, 2015

The station is likely to air more music, but additional details are yet to be decided.

People

Dugas to take helm in Wyoming, and other comings and goings in public media

By Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor | June 23, 2015

And DeAnne Hamilton will leave WESA-FM in Pittsburgh July 17.

Programs/Content

How Hearken works with audiences to set the news agenda

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | June 23, 2015

“The whole idea starts with bringing the audience into the editorial process from the very moment of story creation.”

FCC

FCC declines to protect public TV in 2016 spectrum auction

By Dru Sefton, Former Senior Editor | June 22, 2015

In a ruling issued Friday, the FCC also denied a petition to protect TV translators, which many rural stations use.

Programs/Content

Five steps toward creating a true news network for public radio

By Scott Finn, Consultant (Finn Advising) | June 22, 2015

We have more journalists than the New York Times, but are we having as much of an impact?

Documentaries

AFI honors Stanley Nelson, public TV’s ‘filmmaker of black experience’

By Andrew Lapin, Freelance Contributor | June 22, 2015

Though Nelson didn’t particularly take to that title.

Quick Takes

Pastor killed in South Carolina church shooting was featured in PBS documentary

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | June 19, 2015

Rev. Clementa Pinckney appeared in the 2013 PBS documentary ‘The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’

Awards

Charlie Rose wins Cronkite Award, and other awards in public media

By Henry Schneider, Contributing Editor | June 19, 2015

Rose joins past winners including Tom Brokaw and Diane Sawyer.

Podcasting

PodScanning: ‘Marketplace’ teams with business site Quartz on podcast

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | June 19, 2015

A music station also starts a podcast for and about young people.