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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Local That Works
We announce the four finalists in our 2019 Local That Works contest
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For the first time, a nonprofit news organization and a statewide public TV collaboration advance to the winner’s round.
Programs/Content
Like the rest of Burns’ oeuvre, ‘Country Music’ offers ‘an opportunity to understand who we are’
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Premiering on PBS Sept. 15, the documentarian’s latest film follows the evolution of country music from 1923 to the mid-1990s.
Featured in Category
Comings and goings: The Current names first managing director, NPR’s Schmitz heads to Berlin …
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David Safar previously worked as head of music, artist and label relations for the Minnesota Public Radio station.
Programs/Content
WGBH challenges Twitch audience to participate in live escape-room experience
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Escape Lab, a social video series from WGBH, is designed to connect younger audiences with public media.
Programs/Content
NPR’s news chief says priority is ‘owning the audio space’
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“Commercial radio has seen that there’s a lot of revenue here, and they’re all crowding our lane,” said Nancy Barnes at the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference.
People
Playing with sound at work and on the side: Electronic tracks from our pubmedia playlist
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These tunes have a glitchy vibe that only professional sound nerds could come up with.
System/Policy
KCUR will lead $1.9M CPB-backed ‘collaboration of collaborations’ on election coverage
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The station in Kansas City, Mo., was chosen in part to counter coastal biases in coverage.
Programs/Content
How KPBS met the challenge of taking on a long-form podcast
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The station’s 12th podcast, a look at the art scene in Tijuana and San Diego, pushed it to explore new strategies for keeping listeners engaged.
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
After 50 years on TV, has Sesame Street been gentrified?
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To one viewer and parent, competitive pressures and fading institutional knowledge have compromised the show’s “gritty urban utopianism.”
Obituaries
Fundraising leader and consultant Barbara Appleby dies at 57
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Colleagues credit Appleby with promoting sustaining memberships and boosting many stations’ listener support.