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.
People
Yamiche Alcindor named moderator of ‘Washington Week’
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Alcindor plans to maintain the show’s traditions while thinking of ways it can speak “to a new generation of people.”
Programs/Content
Without a live audience, this variety show had to find a way forward
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“It really was just a process of us starting and stopping and having to reassess,” said a co-EP of public radio’s “Live From Cain’s.”
System/Policy
New York Public Radio lays off 14 staffers, including newsroom leaders
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“We cannot achieve our goals and meet our commitments while shouldering a fourth year of losses,” said CEO Goli Sheikholeslami.
System/Policy
CPB requests $300M in federal support for pubmedia infrastructure
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The funding pool would be similar to the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, which was eliminated in 2011.
System/Policy
In campaign for higher pay, Crosscut union calls out CEO’s big salary
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A petition takes aim at Cascade Public Media CEO Rob Dunlop’s compensation and raises.
System/Policy
WFAE, Louisville Public Media receive first American Journalism Project grants to pubmedia
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The three-year grants will help the stations boost revenue to support their journalism.
Programs/Content
‘Uncuffed’ podcast lets incarcerated people tell their stories, their way
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“Everyone deserves a chance to share their truth unmitigated because we all have so much to learn from the way incarcerated people process trauma and grief, which also happens on the outside.”
System/Policy
NPR plans to recognize digital staffers’ union
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The new bargaining unit will cover about 63 employees.
Obituaries
Bob Fass, ringleader of long-running countercultural Pacifica show, dies at 87
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Fass’ “Radio Unnameable” served as a switchboard for social movements of the ’60s and featured musical guests that included Joni Mitchell, Taj Mahal and Bob Dylan.
Featured in Category
Comings and goings: Tracy Brown named WBEZ CCO, Ian MacSpadden becomes CTO for Arizona Public Media …
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Brown joined WBEZ in 2019 as managing editor.