System/Policy
Upside to digital acquisitions: reaching audiences where they are
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Stations have found that monetizing their local news sites takes experimentation and “a lot of learning.”
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Stations have found that monetizing their local news sites takes experimentation and “a lot of learning.”
“The Splendid Table” airs on more than 400 public radio stations.
An initiative to benefit stations would solicit donations on NPR’s digital platforms during a campaign at the end of this year.
“Susan Howarth epitomized the very best of public broadcasting,” said PBS President Paula Kerger.
A local developer will pay to move Prairie Public’s transmitters and will contribute to rent for the new locations.
Public media newsroom leaders are being asked to complete five surveys to help “improve the strength of our journalism system-wide.”
Attendees at the Public Radio Program Directors conference heard an update on the collaboration involving four stations in Texas.
Twin Cities PBS in St. Paul, Minn., has hired Wilson as its first VP of digital publishing.
The Lenfest Institute announced Tuesday a second round of funding to help newsrooms listen to and build trust with audiences.
Bob Daino is currently COO of Acreage Holdings, which owns cannabis cultivation, processing and dispensing operations in 12 states.
The funding cut will cost the station about half of its annual $1 million operating budget.
The Labor, Health and Human Services and Education bill would provide $445 million for CPB in FY21.