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How WFAE transformed in 5 years: a case study
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The station has doubled its content staff, increased its digital traffic sevenfold, attracted new members and grown general revenues.
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The station has doubled its content staff, increased its digital traffic sevenfold, attracted new members and grown general revenues.
Wielunski previously worked as Chicago Public Media’s director of membership growth and acquisition.
Rick Steves, Samantha Brown and others are highlighting global destinations while considering how to keep themselves and their viewers safe.
Johnson joined the station in 1989 and previously worked as studio supervisor and VP of operations.
While income from individual giving grew 5% last fiscal year, stations were hit by losses in all other revenue categories.
Hanks succeeds Bill Sanford, who announced his retirement last month.
Consultant and former pubmedia executive David Brugger discusses the complications that can doom potential deals.
The stations expect the deal to close in August.
APTS President Pat Butler called the proposal “a good first step.”
Tovares is developing a podcast for U.S. and Latin American audiences.
Martínez replaces David Greene, who left the show in 2020.
For our series on “The Way We Work Now,” we spoke with Nine PBS CEO Amy Shaw and KUOW GM Caryn Mathes.
“For small and midsize media organizations, a new focus on podcast excellence may mean getting out of the comprehensive local news business.”
“Television and radio should be getting together. Joint licensees have advantages that neither one of us have individually.”
Richardson previously worked as director of strategic partnerships at WBEZ.
“Our culture of host hero worship creates monsters, and it is long past time to break this cycle.”
Union members at the station said they “feel like they could be next if they do speak up.”
NPR and stations have found early success at attracting support from major donors and adding reporting capacity to the system with a journalism hubs model.
Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center report on how public media can create media that’s relevant to the lives of the teens and tweens who make up Gen Z.
Pisaneschi joined the station in 1985 and became GM in 2013.