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NEPM, Latino Newsletter team up for election-focused media training

Journalist Julio Ricardo Varela is guiding high school students as they report on the Latino vote in western Massachusetts.

“Sometimes, the most valuable insights come from looking beyond our immediate environment.”

“She wanted to be able to be Jacquie Jones, to the end,” one speaker said. “And she was.”

Also, PBS39 in Bethlehem, Pa., has hired two new executives as part of a management restructure.

A session at the NETA conference covered how system leaders are re-examining practices dealing with harassment complaints.

The station wanted to create a classical music service with a price “low enough so that stations could use it to cover less critical dayparts.”

Friends and colleagues remember Jones as an advocate for living up to public media’s ideals for reaching underserved audiences.

“I’ve had tremendous experiences, I’ve worked like a dog, so it’s not like someone just granted these things to me.”

The partnership marks PRX’s first time working with children’s podcasts.

COO Loren Mayor has hired a consultant to run the department as she rethinks its leadership structure.

As chief content officer Cappello oversaw both WNYC News and WNYC Studios. Now the divisions are to be managed separately.

WRVO Public Media in Oswego and WBFO in Buffalo are receiving $64,000 and $40,000, respectively.