Programs/Content
New preschool series aims to teach coding skills
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“Mia & Codie,” a public TV show from the creator of “WordWorld,” combines computational thinking and socioemotional learning.
American Public Media Group shuffles leadership
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Chandra Kavati is now SVP of business development and president of American Public Media.
Quick Takes
Survey finds slight decline in diversity of TV and radio workforces
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Public media’s edge over commercial media in representation of people of color has vanished.
System/Policy
Commercial TV owner gives Helena station to Montana PBS
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The new station will allow licensee Montana State University to operate a full-power PBS member station in the state capital for the first time.
Programs/Content
The last days of ‘Soul!’: Why a trailblazing show about black issues couldn’t last
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An excerpt from a new book looks at the shifts in funding that doomed the documenting of an era.
Quick Takes
Profile 2015 study sizes up education, spending habits of NPR listeners
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A quarter of NPR listeners watch no prime-time television.
Quick Takes
Hazen Schumacher, host who introduced audiences to classic jazz, dies at 88
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Schumacher’s Jazz Revisited aired for 30 years.
Quick Takes
Keillor’s goal by fall 2016: ‘To be a gray eminence’
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Keillor wants to “fade away into well-deserved obscurity.”
Programs/Content
On ‘R-words’ that the media shouldn’t (or maybe should) say
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Rather than putting our energy into avoiding taking sides on the use of offensive terms, let’s put that energy into picking the right side.
Obituaries
WGBH cameraman Frank Lane dies; recorded historic James Brown concert
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Lane worked at the Boston public broadcaster from 1968 through his retirement in 2003.
Programs/Content
WWNO wins ‘Morning Edition’ contest, gets show for free
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NPR’s Spark initiative aimed to boost audience for Morning Edition and will focus next on All Things Considered.
Quick Takes
Europe’s public broadcasters undergoing many changes
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The Guardian checks on recent happenings.