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.
Podcasting
What a public radio program director learned at Podcast Movement 2015
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Roman Mars is a hero, there’s a problem with dude overload, and more.
Programs/Content
PBS appeals to indie filmmakers with bigger marketing budget, multiplatform strategy
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An arts festival will promote a documentary about Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, among other films.
System/Policy
After sale of Classical South Florida, scramble is on to ensure coverage in Palm Beach
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A former director of Classical South Florida’s board is looking to buy back one of the signals sold to a religious broadcaster.
Programs/Content
Why APM’s ‘Wits’ didn’t make it
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There are lessons for everyone in public media from the rise and abrupt fall of the variety show.
PBS
Kerger on end of ‘Downton’: “Great television begets great television”
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”We really have an abundance of programs that have been pitched to us.“
NPR
NPR’s Michael Oreskes: “There probably hasn’t been enough change inside NPR”
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NPR’s new head of news discusses the future of All Things Considered, achieving diversity, and the need for more collaboration among NPR and member stations.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #29: Michael Oreskes, NPR’s new head of news, on station collaboration, host changes and liberal bias
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Oreskes wants NPR and member stations to collaborate more seamlessly, both to break more and better news, but also to better reflect the entirety of the country.
Quick Takes
AT&T to request FM radio activation in Android phones
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FM tuner technology in smartphones could find wider usage.
System/Policy
American Public Media Group lays off 10 in newsroom, cancels ‘Wits’
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The changes complete a planned reorganization first revealed earlier this month.
People
PBS announces upcoming departure of programming executive Donald Thoms
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Thoms has concentrated mainly on arts and drama programs, overseeing projects such as the PBS Arts Fall Festival.