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.
System/Policy
Gary Knell: Pubmedia’s commitment to local audiences must transcend lip service
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As public media heads into its next 50 years, shifting strategies to focus on content “will require a hard turn and painful decisions that affect finances, people and structures.”
Quick Takes
Charlotte’s WFAE receives $100K grant to experiment on NPR One
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The station will hire an on-demand producer, develop podcasts, create content to serve “diverse audiences” and “uncover unique, untold stories.”
Jobs
To become managers, journalists must let go of independent mindset
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Trainers Judith Smelser and Mike Marcotte discuss the new skills required when a reporter moves into a leadership position.
Obituaries
Carl Bloom, pioneering donor-marketing strategist, dies at 79
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Bloom adapted magazine publishers’ practices of list-buying and direct-mail testing to public broadcasting membership programs.
Quick Takes
After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico university shuts down PBS station
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CPB had given $30,000 to help the station recover from hurricane damage.
Quick Takes
CPB gives PBS Kids channel $5.6M for games, outreach
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The interactive game feature should roll out later this year, according to PBS.
Obituaries
Influential public broadcaster John Witherspoon dies at 88
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Witherspoon was the first director of television at CPB.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #101: How to be a boss
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Trainers Judith Smelser and Michael Marcotte offer tips on everything from time management to planning for crisis coverage, all while dealing with challenging personality types in the newsroom.
System/Policy
Laura Walker: Public media can be ‘a haven from divisive rhetoric’
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“Public media is especially crucial now, both to seek objective truth and to envision a sustainable model for the future of local journalism.”
Quick Takes
Las Vegas LPFM sues CPB over denial of grant
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The president of Las Vegas Public Radio is asking for punitive damages of $1.7 million as well as other monetary damages.