System/Policy
CPB awards $2.65M for state government coverage
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
“Southwest Florida in Focus,” a half-hour of TV news for Fort Myers and beyond, launched as a cost-effective model for producing local coverage.
Investigate West, Texas Tribune and KCPT in Kansas City, Mo., are the nonprofit and public broadcasting organizations receiving grants from the Center for Cooperative Media.
A session at the Public Radio Program Directors conference guided stations on finding their “podcast superpower.”
“Most of what we are going to end up improving will be our local coverage or our regional coverage, which then will hopefully roll up to the really brilliant, insightful, informed national coverage,” Oreskes said.
CPB is backing development of the new “Urban Alternative” format and looking for three stations to start airing it this year.
An attendee at the Public Radio Program Directors Conference asked whether public media should build its own music-streaming platform similar to Spotify and Pandora.
New interviews with playwrights, authors and poets will be paired with previously unreleased conversations from the series’ 30-year archives.
The National Black Programming Consortium receives $750,000 to launch a new initiative.
News segments hosted by the BBC’s Anu Anand will focus on top global business stories of the day.
“It’s not that they devalue national or international news from NPR or PRI, but the difference-maker for them is local,” said a researcher.
A public radio story about migration helped Nandini Sen feel connected to the U.S. and led to her career in public media.