Programs/Content
NEPM, Latino Newsletter team up for election-focused media training
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Journalist Julio Ricardo Varela is guiding high school students as they report on the Latino vote in western Massachusetts.
What public radio can learn from pro wrestling’s loyal fan base
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“Sometimes, the most valuable insights come from looking beyond our immediate environment.”
Programs/Content
How NPR and stations are working together to expand regional news
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NPR and stations have found early success at attracting support from major donors and adding reporting capacity to the system with a journalism hubs model.
Programs/Content
The missing middle: Reimagining a future for tweens, teens and public media
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Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center report on how public media can create media that’s relevant to the lives of the teens and tweens who make up Gen Z.
Featured in Category
Ron Pisaneschi to leave IdahoPTV
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Pisaneschi joined the station in 1985 and became GM in 2013.
Obituaries
WUNC GM Connie Walker dies at 59
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Walker “played a vital role in our station’s growth and many successes,” said Nora Casper, WUNC’s acting GM.
About Current
What happened to public media’s great pandemic pivot
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Join us for upcoming webinars featuring WFAE, KUOW and Nine PBS.
People
Comings and goings: Alexis Madrigal joins KQED as host of ‘Forum,’ Fred Rogers Productions elevates Suzanne Masri …
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Madrigal, a staff writer for The Atlantic, is also co-founder of the magazine’s COVID Tracking Project.
System/Policy
How journalists are challenging ideas of objectivity while empowering their communities
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Working within and outside of public media, proponents of “movement journalism” are spurring the system to embrace journalism with a mission.
People
Lesli Rotenberg, executive who directed digital expansion of children’s media, to leave PBS
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Rotenberg plans to “explore new opportunities to improve the lives of children and families,” according to a memo from PBS President Paula Kerger.
System/Policy
UC Davis alums, local community protest relocation of freeform college station
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Supporters of KDVS argue that the smaller studios will diminish the station’s operations and its value for teaching students.