Development
WBUR, Greater Public receive Knight grant for digital transformation
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The grant puts WBUR over the $9 million goal for Catapult, its initiative to improve digital fundraising and audience experience.
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The grant puts WBUR over the $9 million goal for Catapult, its initiative to improve digital fundraising and audience experience.
The breakthrough agreement bundles live feeds of 150 stations and ad-supported channels featuring dramas, documentaries and “Reading Rainbow.”
South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s leader predicts that layoffs and a complete loss of local programming could snowball into declining donor support.
“I believe inclusion is one of those things that doesn’t happen very often,” says the station’s Spanish-language news reporter and Latino community outreach coordinator. “My job is to try to make sure that the word has meaning.”
At a board meeting Thursday, CEO Paula Kerger also addressed how to handle possible threats to pubmedia funding.
Public Media For All is accepting nominations for individuals doing the hard work of making our workplaces more inclusive and equitable.
The contract includes AI protections that are “some of the strongest” in the country, according to the union.
“Breakdown” explores whether the incident that took 18 lives in 2023 could have been prevented.
PMC will use the $1.5 million grant to build a website of tools and data for stations.
NPR appointed Meghan Ashford-Grooms and Nishant Dahiya as supervising editors for standards and practices.
Wilson had “a singular focus on storytelling and the importance of public media,” said filmmaker Ken Burns.
Kiser, who joined the station in 1999, plans to step down next year.