Current (https://current.org/page/3/?s=pitch+black)
“If new donors continue declining overall, that means retention of those donors is going to be more important than ever.”
September 23, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/09/stations-look-to-increase-retention-as-trends-for-new-donors-cause-concern/Filmmakers who search high and low for production money say public media must find ways to increase support for their work.
August 5, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/08/why-independent-documentary-filmmakers-want-new-and-improved-funding-models/The station has doubled its content staff, increased its digital traffic sevenfold, attracted new members and grown general revenues.
June 8, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/06/how-wfae-transformed-in-5-years-a-case-study/Greenlit as the COVID pandemic accelerated, “Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer” suddenly found itself “right in the middle of history.”
May 10, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/05/pbs-series-on-life-expectancy-aims-to-give-200-year-view-of-the-present-moment/How to sustain local journalism is one of the great challenges of American media.
April 30, 2021 | https://current.org/local-that-works-webinars/With newsrooms based in New York and Michigan, the initiative is the first interstate project to be supported by the Solutions Journalism Network.
March 26, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/03/multimedia-journalism-collaborative-explores-caregiver-issues-through-solutions-reporting/Event organizers in public media see a future for digital events even when groups can gather again.
March 22, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/03/with-venues-closed-event-planners-create-virtual-experiences-to-connect-with-audiences/Downturns were substantial last year, but stations have attracted new clients and are hopeful for the return of top clients.
March 16, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/03/stations-are-cautiously-optimistic-that-underwriting-will-rebound-next-year/Each of the nonprofits that fund and support public TV content by and for diverse communities will receive an additional $500,000.
February 22, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/02/cpb-increases-annual-funding-to-public-tvs-multicultural-alliance/During the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, President Paula Kerger cited gains in stations’ membership revenues and the Biden administration’s focus on education as bright spots.
February 3, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/02/pbs-execs-upbeat-about-financial-outlook-new-arts-programs/“The mix of public media messages that I’m needed, but only to a hierarchical point, is a confounding conundrum.”
January 28, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/01/to-bipoc-colleagues-what-is-public-media/Retiring this week after 33 years at the network, Cole tested journalists’ patience but stood out as a devoted advocate for their work.
January 22, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/01/he-drove-them-crazy-but-reporters-will-miss-unstoppable-npr-arts-editor-tom-cole/Wong recently worked as communications lead for WETA in Washington, D.C.
January 11, 2021 | https://current.org/2021/01/comings-and-goings-olivia-wong-joins-apt-whitney-maddox-named-dei-manager-for-npr/By inviting people who appear on air to share their demographic data, WPR created a way to accurately measure the diversity of sources in its news and talk programs.
November 10, 2020 | https://current.org/2020/11/how-wisconsin-public-radio-is-using-surveys-to-track-diversity-of-its-sources/“It starts shattering the monolith of Latinos or youth,” says a contributor to Every 30 Seconds.
October 5, 2020 | https://current.org/2020/10/collaboration-explores-diversity-of-young-latino-electorate/“The power dynamic is off in a way that doesn’t account for the world that we’re in today.”
September 28, 2020 | https://current.org/2020/09/with-disputes-going-public-creators-ponder-ownership-stakes-in-their-podcasts/Alcindor is the first public media reporter and first Black woman to win the White House Correspondents’ Association Aldo Beckman Award, presented annually to a journalist who demonstrates “overall excellence.”
August 19, 2020 | https://current.org/2020/08/with-a-focus-on-civil-rights-yamiche-alcindor-rises-to-the-top-as-a-white-house-correspondent/A journalism school professor argues that NPR’s emphasis on unaccented English “undermines NPR’s original mission of engaging listeners civically.”
June 25, 2020 | https://current.org/2020/06/when-one-way-of-speaking-dominates-who-gets-to-tell-their-stories-on-public-radio/By providing more support to emerging filmmakers, EP Chris Hastings aims to bring more exposure to their documentaries and to World.
September 9, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/09/world-channel-pursues-role-as-early-stage-co-producer-of-independent-films/With more than 18.5 million subscribers to its YouTube channels, the creative unit aims to share its expertise with more stations.
May 16, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/05/pbs-digital-studios-proposes-regional-hubs-to-help-stations-create-video-series/