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.
Tech
PRSS rolls out training program that aims to cultivate new generation of public radio engineers
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Station leaders are increasingly saying that the lack of qualified engineers in the system is “keeping them up at night.”
System/Policy
VIA Public Media adds Bucknell U.’s FM station
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VIA Public Media will offer internships and train Bucknell students.
Programs/Content
Current Crossword: ‘Tours de Force’
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Our latest crossword puzzle will have particular appeal for fans of a certain public TV show.
People
With Public Media Rocks, we’re making the ultimate playlist to show off your musical talents
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Do you work in public media and make music? Send us your tunes for compiling into one mega-playlist of pubmedia jams.
People
Comings and goings: Virginia stations choose top execs, Nashville Public Radio hires president…
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The first CFO and chief content officer for the Virginia Foundation for Public Media and Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corp. will begin work next month.
Programs/Content
Connecticut Public partners with Norwalk library for education expansion
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The partnership, initiated last fall, extends CP’s educational initiative for high school students and veterans into a third city and the first library location.
People
New AIR CEO Ikeda envisions ‘a strong community of co-conspirators’
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The hire ends a period of transition for AIR, which started when former CEO Sue Schardt abruptly left in August 2018.
System/Policy
Public radio music stations to meet for ‘first-of-its-kind’ summit
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“We’ll really focus on … a series of topics that are, we think, important to public radio music stations of all formats,” said NPR’s Mike Riksen.
System/Policy
PRNDI proposing name change, reinventing identity to serve all pubmedia journalists
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“As the public media landscape changes, PRNDI must grow and change to be an organization that represents and advocates for journalists across public media.”
Programs/Content
How Chicago’s WBEZ helped fulfill a girl’s wish to create her own podcast
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Five-year-old Azka Sharief “wanted to write a mystery story and read it as a podcast,” says WBEZ producer Kevin Dawson. “Of course we were more than happy to help.”