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The master of entertaining listeners while explaining complex topics is working with a “new mafia” of media creators.
February 6, 2020 | https://current.org/2020/02/post-radiolab-robert-krulwich-plans-many-more-experiments-with-storytelling/Bugg was director of programming at PBS from 2012 to 2014 before leaving for CPB.
January 16, 2020 | https://current.org/2020/01/comings-and-goings-pbs-names-bugg-programming-vp-de-la-torre-joins-new-england-collaborative/Pruess signs off as WQPT nears the goal of its $2.4 million capital campaign.
January 3, 2020 | https://current.org/2020/01/comings-and-goings-mary-pruess-retires-in-quad-cities-mprs-nancy-cassutt-moves-into-management-role-at-marketplace/The center for pubmedia innovation is urging participants to “fail fast” with bold efforts to find new revenue sources.
December 13, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/12/at-bizlab-summit-stations-share-lessons-from-experiments-with-new-income-streams/Moran has been PMC’s interim president since April.
October 3, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/10/moran-leads-public-media-co-wbez-preps-for-midday-show-launch/These contributors to our Public Media Rocks playlist are tapping into classic and contemporary jazz and blues sounds.
September 20, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/09/hear-tunes-by-pubmedia-musicians-that-hit-the-blue-notes/The board will seat Joe O’Connor, CEO of WFAE, and Mike Savage, GM of WEKU.
September 17, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/09/comings-and-goings-stations-elect-npr-board-members-kroc-fellows-start-at-network/For the first time, a nonprofit news organization and a statewide public TV collaboration advance to the winner’s round.
September 5, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/09/we-announce-the-four-finalists-in-our-2019-local-that-works-contest/NPR will cut the position of longtime reporter David Welna as part of the restructuring.
August 6, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/08/citing-changing-priorities-npr-will-eliminate-some-newsroom-jobs/Jim Dunford rises from VP of programming and operations into the new PBS position.
June 26, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/06/comings-and-goings-pbs-creates-station-services-svp-post-socal-stations-hire-cfo/From the 1940s to the 1970s, dozens of U.S. public radio stations featured French cultural programming that “let us know that the French people like us and vice versa.”
June 5, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/06/how-frances-national-broadcaster-bolstered-u-s-public-radio-in-its-formative-years/Highlands Current Inc. is a nonprofit corporation begun in 2010 created to provide balanced reporting of news and events for the Hudson Valley communities of Cold Spring, Garrison, Nelsonville and Philipstown, N.Y. This special series took a deeper look at likely impact of climate change on the region, the challenges facing local farmers, “living on the edge” and the growing opioid crisis.
May 26, 2019 | https://current.org/local-that-works/in-depth-reporting-series/KMUW’s Engage ICT events are free, monthly panel discussions with local experts that focus on topics that touch Wichita citizens’ daily lives, giving them a chance to directly ask questions and spark civic engagement. Previous topics have included climate change, Medicaid expansion, and education funding.
May 26, 2019 | https://current.org/local-that-works/engage-ict/“Phenology” is a program from KAXE/KBXE featuring local student reporting on natural phenomena and the changing seasons. The “Phenology” team works with 15 different schools around the state and both broadcasts and podcasts kids’ nature reports once a week.
May 26, 2019 | https://current.org/local-that-works/phenology/Iowa Public Television’s Iowa Land and Sky project provides general and classroom audiences with a unique perspective of the state’s geology, biodiversity, and environmental issues. Through short video stories, online experiences, classroom resources, and social media conversations, this initiative has helped Iowans better appreciate the ecological and geological diversity of the state.
May 26, 2019 | https://current.org/local-that-works/iowa-land-and-sky/Peril and Promise: The Challenge of Climate Change is a reporting project from WNET in New York about the impact of climate change.
May 26, 2019 | https://current.org/local-that-works/peril-promise/“PBS Kids programs are designed to reflect the diversity of communities across the nation,” a PBS spokesperson said.
May 21, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/05/alabama-public-television-passes-on-arthur-episode-with-gay-wedding/Jamie Annunzio Myers is the new COO of the organization formed by the merger of PBS SoCal and KCETLink Media Group.
May 17, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/05/comings-and-goings-myers-named-coo-in-l-a-pbs-picks-new-public-editor/Members ages 58 and younger want access to more on-demand programming, and they’re willing to pay more for it.
May 15, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/05/survey-illuminates-generational-differences-in-values-motivating-donors/The Arkansas Educational Television Commission is threatening to sever its relationship with the AETN Foundation.
April 17, 2019 | https://current.org/2019/04/directors-push-for-innovation-in-arkansas-creates-friction-with-foundation/