Development
Nine pubcasters receive $100,000 Press Forward grants
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
September CDP Index highlights sluggish summer for pubmedia donors, revenue
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The June through August 2024 period was, at best, sluggish for station fundraising across several key performance indicators compared to the same period in 2023.
SPONSORED
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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.
System/Policy
New agreement gives KALW nonprofit more control of station
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The San Francisco station plans to transition some contract workers to full-time.
Diversity
An anti-racist future: a vision and plan for the transformation of public media
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“This effort is the result of more than 200 people in public media coming together to identify the primary obstacles to anti-racist public media and create a vision for transformation.”
Obituaries
Former KCET president Bill Kobin dies at 91
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During a storied career, Kobin helped launch seminal programs for NET and led KCET to “comeback story” status.
People
Comings and goings: Lynne Clendenin will retire from OPB, New York Public Radio hires sponsorship SVP …
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Clendenin has held several roles at OPB’s stations.
People
KOPN selects Miquel Calçada as new leader
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Calçada worked in public broadcasting in Spain before moving to the U.S.
Tech
Public media owners agree to sell Pocket Casts podcast platform
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The plan to sell Pocket Casts is in “early stages of development,” according to an NPR spokesperson.
System/Policy
PBS distances itself from former staff attorney ensnared in Project Veritas sting
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A video of the former employee includes “hateful rhetoric” that violates PBS’ values, the network said.
Programs/Content
Public radio stations call on New York Times to take responsibility for ‘lapses in judgment’
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Station leaders and the Public Radio Program Directors Association are questioning the Times’ damage control related to its podcast “Caliphate.”