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.
Quick Takes
Survey finds slight decline in diversity of TV and radio workforces
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Public media’s edge over commercial media in representation of people of color has vanished.
System/Policy
Commercial TV owner gives Helena station to Montana PBS
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The new station will allow licensee Montana State University to operate a full-power PBS member station in the state capital for the first time.
Programs/Content
The last days of ‘Soul!’: Why a trailblazing show about black issues couldn’t last
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An excerpt from a new book looks at the shifts in funding that doomed the documenting of an era.
Quick Takes
Profile 2015 study sizes up education, spending habits of NPR listeners
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A quarter of NPR listeners watch no prime-time television.
Quick Takes
Hazen Schumacher, host who introduced audiences to classic jazz, dies at 88
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Schumacher’s Jazz Revisited aired for 30 years.
Quick Takes
Keillor’s goal by fall 2016: ‘To be a gray eminence’
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Keillor wants to “fade away into well-deserved obscurity.”
Programs/Content
On ‘R-words’ that the media shouldn’t (or maybe should) say
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Rather than putting our energy into avoiding taking sides on the use of offensive terms, let’s put that energy into picking the right side.
Obituaries
WGBH cameraman Frank Lane dies; recorded historic James Brown concert
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Lane worked at the Boston public broadcaster from 1968 through his retirement in 2003.
Programs/Content
WWNO wins ‘Morning Edition’ contest, gets show for free
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NPR’s Spark initiative aimed to boost audience for Morning Edition and will focus next on All Things Considered.
Quick Takes
Europe’s public broadcasters undergoing many changes
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The Guardian checks on recent happenings.