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Stanley Nelson, John Oliver among WGA members petitioning stations for fair freelancer contracts

By Julian Wyllie, Reporter | 5 hours ago

The petition accuses GBH, WNET Group and PBS SoCal of delaying their response to the union’s demands.

The potential of AI voices: transforming news delivery and engagement

By Michael Crystal, Author (Generative AI in the Newsroom) | 6 hours ago

With advancements from OpenAI and Meta, newsrooms may adapt and build new features to enhance the reader and listener experience.

He drove them crazy, but reporters will miss ‘unstoppable’ NPR arts editor Tom Cole

By Jon Kalish, Freelance Contributor | January 22, 2021

Retiring this week after 33 years at the network, Cole tested journalists’ patience but stood out as a devoted advocate for their work.

Pubcasters urge FCC to offer ‘flexibility’ on proposed foreign government sponsorship rules

By Julian Wyllie, Reporter | January 22, 2021

The FCC has signaled its intent to make broadcasters consistently identify when programs have received financial support from a foreign government.

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

By Tyler Falk, Reporter | January 21, 2021

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

By Public Media Anti-Racist Partnership | January 18, 2021

“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.”