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CPB provides $1.9M to bolster editorial oversight at NPR
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
A $100,000 grant from Press Forward will help Radio Catskill in New York hire at least one additional reporter.
The idea of publicly funded newsrooms rooted in local communities had never occurred to Montecillo until he volunteered at a public media station.
A Gallup/Knight Foundation report released Tuesday finds a strong correlation between political values and distrust of the media.
As part of the agreement, WNYC will also handle sponsorship for “Science Friday.”
Israel Smith has been “tenacious, inventive and enterprising” during his five-year tenure, said NPR VP Anya Grundmann.
When done well, a digital strategy shapes what happens before the microphones are on or turns what happens during the show into something that works in other formats.
The oral-history nonprofit has been unable to replace funding for the booth that ended in 2016.
A daylong summit about sexual misconduct in newsrooms included discussion of how NPR and other media organizations have enabled powerful men at the expense of female employees.
Sagner, a New York businessman, was nominated to the board in 1994 by President Clinton.
For continued relevance with audiences in the next 50 years, public radio must learn to embrace and learn from failure.
The influential longtime leader in public broadcasting explains how he built MPR up from a small college station.