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.
System/Policy
Reflections from observing good radio bosses
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How would you describe your favorite public radio boss of all time?
System/Policy
Investigation of filmmaker Michael Pack centers on alleged ‘unlawful’ use of nonprofit gifts
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The conservative director’s film about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is airing Monday on PBS.
System/Policy
PMJA’s Editor Corps initiative gets CPB support
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More than a dozen stations requested assistance in the project’s first two weeks.
Tech
How to record a music show at home with Audacity
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With equipment you probably have at home already, you can create a program even during the pandemic.
Programs/Content
‘In the Dark’ podcast pauses production of new season for special report on COVID-19
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Journalists revisited sources from the show’s second season to examine the pandemic’s effects on Mississippi.
System/Policy
APM, MPR initiate staff reductions by offering voluntary buyouts, furloughs
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About two dozen staffers have agreed to separate from the organization or take furloughs.
Programs/Content
With virtual proms, public radio stations give teens another shot at their big night
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As schools cancel high-school proms due to COVID-19 concerns, two public radio stations held online events to meet the need.
Programs/Content
Viewers flock to public TV for news, food shows during lockdown
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A spike in audience for “NewsHour” came from viewers tuning in more frequently.
Tech
Public Media Group buys WGBH share in Public Media Management venture
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WGBH’s decision to sell its interest in PMM is part of a pattern in which the Boston-based public media giant has incubated business ventures and spun them off.