System/Policy
Alaska Public Media to expand broadcast reach through acquisition of TV station
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The station, previously a CBS affiliate, reaches more than 85,000 viewers in southern Anchorage.
StoryCorps’ union rallies for reversal of layoffs
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The CWA unit representing StoryCorps workers is challenging how management handled recent layoffs, alleging retaliation.
People
Andrew Patner, arts critic for Chicago’s WFMT, dies at 55
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Patner was a longtime critic-at-large for WFMT in Chicago and host of the station’s show Critical Thinking.
Programs/Content
New Regional Journalism Centers will feed national public media news programs
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CPB will establish regional journalism hubs to strengthen news services in their areas and to deliver more locally produced segments to public media’s national programs.
Programs/Content
Serial subject granted appeal
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Adnan Syed, the subject of the podcast, has a chance to overturn his life sentence for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend.
Fresh Air
WHYY awarded grant to archive 38 years of Fresh Air
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Around 8,000 episodes of Fresh Air will be made available to the public in 2016.
Invisibilia
Q&A: Mohn leads NPR into ‘golden age of spoken word’
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An in-depth talk with NPR’s president about program strategy, his Spark initiative, NPR’s digital future and more.
Programs/Content
The first of our new improved weekly roundups — now with more content
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This week: the Congressional Downtown Abbey office, new conferences, digital wisdom and more.
Stations
After backlash, board at Pa. pubcaster buys out exec’s contract
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News of the former CEO’s compensation had spurred donors to withhold renewals.
Awards
Calif. pubcasters take home Golden Mikes, and more awards in public media
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Public radio stations KCLU in Thousand Oaks and Southern California Public Radio in Pasadena took home both awards for best use of sound in addition to several accolades for reporting.
Programs/Content
WNYC plans new podcasts in push to build on successes
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Indies aren’t the only public radio producers to recognize that there’s gold in them there podcast hills.
"The Pub" Podcast
The Pub, Episode 4: How women, people of color, and everyone else can sound more like themselves on the radio
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We explore the origins, biases and limitations of the “public radio voice.”