Development
Nine pubcasters receive $100,000 Press Forward grants
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
The June through August 2024 period was, at best, sluggish for station fundraising across several key performance indicators compared to the same period in 2023.
“Hometown Create” will include full-length cooking, travel, gardening and other how-to shows produced by local stations.
“Don’t try to tack listening onto a performance or ‘normal’ event — make listening the entire point.”
Staffers at NPR and member stations will work full-time in four-month stints to address digital engagement, network collaboration and on-demand audio.
One outcome discussed at a meeting Wednesday would maintain the Miami-Dade school district’s ownership of WLRN, while the other looks toward independence.
The media-reform advocate has proposed a tax on targeted digital ad revenues to create a multibillion-dollar Public Interest Media Endowment Fund.
Ninety-six percent of eligible employees voted in favor of joining.
Kitty Felde, who covered Capitol Hill for public radio, has written a children’s mystery book, “Welcome to Washington, Fina Mendoza.”
The station wants residents to bring old photos to community events, documenting the history of Las Vegas and its relationship with water.
APTS President Pat Butler also said that the organization is exploring several spectrum revenue partnerships, including with Netflix.
The station’s Community Voices project has made its programming more diverse while also helping to grow revenue.