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Today’s higher education leaders face unprecedented financial pressures. What is your station doing to help them solve their problems?
April 8, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/from-nice-to-necessary-how-make-a-case-for-your-university-station/The CPM model of advertising does not — and will not ever — work to sustain podcasting.
April 5, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/why-our-system-for-valuing-podcasts-is-broken/“We are reaching a really big audience,” says Abby Jenkins of PBS Kids. “They are born gamers.”
April 5, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/growth-of-games-on-pbs-kids-aims-to-meet-children-where-they-are/SIG will rebrand itself to Media Management as part of the purchase.
April 4, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/signal-infrastructure-group-acquires-sonys-share-of-public-media-management-announces-rebrand/As a mirror on tech and society, the “spring break for nerds” offers takeaways relevant to the future of public media.
April 4, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/innovation-at-sxsw-what-public-media-should-know/A $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation supports HBCU stations in preserving historical recordings in their archives.
April 4, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/hbcu-radio-preservation-project-expands-to-29-stations/The job cuts affected staff working in children’s media, local news and the Interactive Engagement Group, among other units.
April 3, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/wnet-group-announces-layoffs-to-its-new-jersey-newsroom-plans-to-cancel-nyc-arts/In an email to staff, outgoing CEO Matt Moog and board chair Robert Pasin said that revenues “are not growing to support our mission.”
April 3, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/citing-lagging-income-chicago-public-media-cuts-staff-ends-vocalo-broadcast/While it’s too soon to project whether the station in central Pennsylvania will have layoffs, GM Isabel Reinert said it is clear that there is no way to deal with the budget challenges without addressing staffing.
April 3, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/wpsu-faces-cuts-with-20-less-in-penn-state-funds/Kuo joined PRX in 2018 as a project manager and has also been director of training/content development.
April 3, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/comings-and-goings-stephanie-kuo-named-prx-vp-wade-lee-promoted-at-kut/Here are six practical interviewing strategies for reporters, producers and hosts, drawn from the day-to-day practices of some of today’s best audio storytellers.
April 2, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/how-to-elevate-your-audio-interviews-from-good-to-great/Bobby Carter, who first joined NPR as an intern in 2000, was promoted within NPR Music.
April 1, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/comings-and-goings-bobby-carter-named-host-and-series-producer-of-nprs-tiny-desk-concerts-jack-corbett-named-planet-money-visual-host/“This is an event that can bring an entire country together and show people the world in a way that only science can,” says Julia Cort, co-executive producer.
April 1, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/04/nova-pairs-with-stations-to-help-viewers-experience-total-solar-eclipse/APM Studios will move away from being a standalone podcast studio.
March 29, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/03/american-public-media-restructures-apm-studios-eliminates-positions/More than 60 employees will be part of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union.
March 29, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/03/oregon-public-broadcasting-voluntarily-recognizes-union-of-content-staff/“Surely, we are capable of changing when the stakes are so high and the consequences of failure so dire. And make no mistake: the stakes are high.”
March 29, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/03/more-than-ever-we-need-to-rethink-our-election-coverage/Longtime WTTW host and producer Geoffrey Baer has made programs about Chicago’s history and architecture since the 1990s. “Chicago Mysteries” offered a new way to tell the city’s story.
March 29, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/03/geoffrey-baer-investigates-a-ufo-sighting-and-the-citys-famous-style-of-hot-dog-in-wttws-chicago-mysteries/“Part of our vision is to lead the community conversation. … I see ‘Engage’ as the most public, consistent way we’re doing that,” says WMFE CEO Judith Smelser.
March 28, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/03/wmfe-pursues-new-audiences-with-weekday-show-engage/“This is a story that needs to be told … for my sake, for our family’s sake, and for those who will listen to it in Detroit and see themselves in it,” Mosley said.
March 28, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/03/tonya-mosley-explores-a-family-mystery-in-she-has-a-name/“As KCUR continues to grow and develop to better serve the community, we seek a more active role in the shared future of this organization,” the employees said.
March 27, 2024 | https://current.org/2024/03/kcur-staffers-seek-to-unionize/