System/Policy
PRX cuts positions due to declining podcast sponsorship
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The layoffs affected “teams including marketing, station services, training, and technology and advertising operations.”
Programs/Content
WNYC’s ‘NYC Now’ podcast offers three daily doses of local news
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“Our newsroom is creating all this work, and it didn’t make sense that we weren’t actually taking some of that work and putting it up in the podcast realm,” says Ave Carrillo, WNYC’s EP of local podcasts.
Obituaries
Ron Hull, public TV pioneer in Nebraska, dies at 92
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Hull first started working for Nebraska’s public television station in 1955 and was still serving as a senior advisor to Nebraska Public Media when he died.
Programs/Content
Study suggests a way forward in serving diverse audiences with classical music
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“Clearly, the path to diversifying audiences for our organizations involves a robust digital strategy in addition to making our radio programming welcoming to listeners from all backgrounds and ethnicities,” writes the leader of Classical KING FM.
Programs/Content
New VPM show highlights rural Virginians improving their communities
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“We need to give people hope, because there’s so much just negativity.”
Programs/Content
Collaboration with newspapers repositions OPB in local news ecosystem
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Through a content-sharing partnership that launched in 2013, OPB’s newsroom is helping newspapers deliver valuable coverage to their readers.
About Current
Hey Boomers, younger staff aren’t the future of public media — they’re the now
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We need your help identifying rising stars in the system so we can amplify their voices, ideas and experiences.
Engagement
Beyond translation: How WNIJ created content specifically for the Latinx community
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“‘If you build it, they will come’ isn’t really a strong strategy in an era of competing algorithms and news consumption silos,” said News Director Jenna Dooley.
System/Policy
WITF to receive Lancaster-based news organization as gift
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The Harrisburg-based public media organization will receive several newspapers from Steinman Communications.