System/Policy
California pubcasters escalate tower dispute
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KVIE and CapRadio have filed countering lawsuits laying claim to a transmission tower.
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.”
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People
Art Ellis: Failing out of freshman engineering got me hooked on public media
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If WHYY’s Art Ellis hadn’t failed some of his core courses in college, he may not have discovered purpose and a new direction at WRUW-FM in Cleveland.
Development
PMDMC features honors for departing CEO, awards for stations and leaders
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Conference attendees bid farewell to outgoing Greater Public CEO Doug Eichten.
Programs/Content
NPR wins award to experiment with virtual-reality audio
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The NPR project is among 11 winners of the Journalism 360 Challenge awards.
System/Policy
Connecticut AM station goes off air after alleged lack of payments
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The station’s future is yet to be determined.
Programs/Content
As it upgrades NPR One, NPR will promote app on-air
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NPR also aims to improve how the app connects users to local stations.
Programs/Content
Hosts reveal the unseen forces at work on ‘Invisibilia’
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Each episode of the NPR podcast can take up to four months to complete.
Programs/Content
Watch our screening and panel discussion of Marlon Riggs’ ‘Tongues Untied’
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The latest installment in our “Get With the Program” series focuses on a groundbreaking 1991 film.
Programs/Content
PRI becomes investor in public radio’s ‘Live Wire’
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The live variety show is adding episodes devoted to in-studio interviews.
People
NPR colleagues send off longtime engineer Manoli Wetherell
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A fellow engineer credits Wetherell with “creating NPR’s signature sound in thousands of mixes, often on deadline and many done live.”
System/Policy
Pubcasting orgs in Alaska begin joint venture with shared leader
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Alaska Public Broadcasting Inc. and CoastAlaska will work together as state funding declines.