System/Policy
Texas Public Radio employees seek to unionize amid leadership transition
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The staffers say the union would “safeguard our organization’s future success.”
How PBS can revive its pioneering spirit by embracing grassroots programming
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“As traditional broadcast gives way to new media, public television needs to dust off its early spirit of scrappy, decentralized innovation.”
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People
Bill Nigut: ‘You cannot help people understand politics and all the nuances in a minute and 30’
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Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Bill Nigut loves talking with people about politics.
System/Policy
Artists turn passion for pubmedia into tributes to Richmond’s WCVE
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The outreach began serendipitously this spring, inspired by a coffee-drinking cartoon cat named Hugo.
Programs/Content
Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
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Meet a group of loyal NPR listeners who don’t get talked about often.
Quick Takes
Nonprofit news sites win grants for collaborative projects
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Investigate West, Texas Tribune and KCPT in Kansas City, Mo., are the nonprofit and public broadcasting organizations receiving grants from the Center for Cooperative Media.
Programs/Content
PRPD panelists share how stations can grow the next big podcast
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A session at the Public Radio Program Directors conference guided stations on finding their “podcast superpower.”
Collaboration
At PRPD, NPR’s Oreskes talks details of journalism hubs with stations
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“Most of what we are going to end up improving will be our local coverage or our regional coverage, which then will hopefully roll up to the really brilliant, insightful, informed national coverage,” Oreskes said.
Programs/Content
Music format highlighting hip-hop, other genres seeks home on public radio
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CPB is backing development of the new “Urban Alternative” format and looking for three stations to start airing it this year.
Programs/Content
Music station leaders discuss challenges in expanding digital presence
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An attendee at the Public Radio Program Directors Conference asked whether public media should build its own music-streaming platform similar to Spotify and Pandora.
American Masters
Season 2 of ‘American Masters Podcast’ focuses on writers
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New interviews with playwrights, authors and poets will be paired with previously unreleased conversations from the series’ 30-year archives.
Programs/Content
Pubmedia consortia win MacArthur grants for diversity in documentaries
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The National Black Programming Consortium receives $750,000 to launch a new initiative.