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.
PBS Annual Meeting
Friends IRL! Campaigns That Convert Social Media Enthusiasm to In-Person Participation and Vice Versa
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In this session we’re aiming to explore a key question with the explosion of social and digital: How does a station “convert” its social media fans and followers into real-world connections?
Programs/Content
Big & Small: Why it Makes Perfect Business Sense to Collaborate
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The merits of outsourcing membership fundraising with a particular perspective coming from a small station.
Programs/Content
What About Us? PBS Resources to Engage Middle- and High-School Students
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This session looks at what PBS resources and programming is available for middle- and high-school students and what stations are doing to work with these audiences.
Programs/Content
Making The Scene: A digital model for creating a regional multiplatform destination
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There is no shortage of great ideas, but making them a reality is not always easy.
Programs/Content
Study to give public TV first granular look at local audiences
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TRAC Media Services is starting a deep dive into demographics, with findings that counter conventional wisdom.
Programs/Content
New NEA grants fuel public media projects nationwide
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The grants are the second round this fiscal year, bringing the NEA’s total support to $103.4 million.
People
Stalking of Minnesota host highlights common but little-discussed threat to female DJs
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The lofty world of public radio is as affected as any broadcaster by harassment described as steady, ubiquitous and taking many forms.
Programs/Content
CPB backs collaboration in Baltimore on coverage of Freddie Gray aftermath
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Two stations are working together to expand reporting on the city’s response to Gray’s death.
Awards
Murrows go to pubcasters, SPJ recognizes radio, and more awards in public media
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Idaho Public Television’s Outdoor Idaho won six awards from the Idaho Press Club.
Congress
Senate resolution upholds forward funding for CPB
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The joint resolution approves the blueprint for the $3.8 trillion 2016 federal budget.