Tech
The potential of AI voices: transforming news delivery and engagement
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With advancements from OpenAI and Meta, newsrooms may adapt and build new features to enhance the reader and listener experience.
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.
About Current
Breathing into the New Year
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Mindfulness is a challenging practice, especially for overachievers, like many of us in public media. But it’s a better modus operandi than the alternatives: mindlessness, reactivity and denial.
System/Policy
PBS will move headquarters to smaller space nearby
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PBS signed a 15-year lease on the property, located about a half-mile to the north of its current offices.
System/Policy
OETA Foundation remains in network building despite eviction notice
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The president of the Oklahoma Educational Television Foundation said it has no reason to leave.
People
NCPR’s Rocco sets retirement, Hernandez joins WNET, and other comings and goings
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Ellen Rocco joined North Country Public Radio in 1980.
Quick Takes
Oversight board suggests privatizing Puerto Rico pubcaster
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The board said the transfer could help “provide increased growth opportunities, enhance the programming offering provided to the people of Puerto Rico, and save the Government money.”
System/Policy
Union accuses KUOW of unfair labor practice
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The claim alleges that KUOW management’s decision to eliminate seven positions “interfered with, restrained, and/or coerced public employees” in their rights to collectively bargain.
Programs/Content
To diversify its audience, Nevada’s KUNR goes bilingual
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The Reno station has sharpened its focus on serving a Latino audience by posting some news coverage in both English and Spanish.
Programs/Content
With ‘Reel Midwest,’ Illinois’ WILL is latest public TV station to embrace indie docs
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The new documentary showcase spotlights films with ties to the Midwest, including the BBC-backed “The Gun Shop.”
Quick Takes
BizLab picks six stations to experiment with revenue strategies
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The stations will work with the WBUR innovation lab for six months.
System/Policy
OETA Board votes to form new fundraising organization
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The Oklahoma public television network cut ties with its fundraising foundation in a unanimous board vote Tuesday night.