System/Policy
WXXI to purchase Rochester’s now silent jazz station
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The $1.2 million deal combines a cash payment and $525,000 donation to the public broadcaster.
Programs/Content
‘Intelligence Squared Debates’ expands to deliver weekly episodes
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A decision to rethink the format gave producers flexibility to create episodes on hotly debated, timely topics.
Engagement
How CapRadio connected with rural audiences during the pandemic
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Even with omicron surging, your newsroom can still engage new communities.
System/Policy
New Orleans Public Radio expands classical network
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A format change will bring the broadcaster’s all-classical service to the Houma-Thibodaux region.
Obituaries
Neal Conan, journalist who covered wars and anchored live broadcasts for NPR, dies at 71
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“Neal did every job you could do in radio,” said Robert Siegel, former “All Things Considered” host, of his longtime colleague. “He was terrifically gifted at everything.”
Programs/Content
It’s time for public radio stations to stop over-programming weekends
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Want to free up thousands of dollars in your budget, create an innovation fund and streamline your on-air promotions — all while improving your public service? It’s easy — just drop 70% of your station’s weekend programming.
People
New book memorializes work of NPR photographer David Gilkey
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The photojournalist’s “unique talent” was capturing images of humanity amid deadly conflicts.
System/Policy
Solar panels in parking lot power studios of Maine’s WERU-FM
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The community radio station in East Orland has entered into a power-purchase agreement to convert to sustainable energy.
People
Neil Best will retire from Community Radio for Northern Colorado
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Best helped to make the organization’s KUNC an independent nonprofit in 2001.