Public media and the coronavirus
Current’s coverage of how public media is reporting on and responding to the global pandemic. Do you have a question, or do you want to share information? Email us at news@current.org.
NPR, advocacy group call on Congress to give university stations access to PPP
University stations have been shut out of applying for the relief loans.Filmmakers join Kerger at press tour to discuss pandemic’s effect on forthcoming PBS series
At an executive session with the PBS president, Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates Jr. discussed how the pandemic has affected productions ...Turn around radio’s audience losses by being ‘Fringe-friendly’
The recent decline in listening has been staggering, but so is the opportunity lying right behind it to make infrequent listeners more ...With in-person events on hold, organizations turn to ‘next best thing’ in virtual gatherings
The pandemic has forced nonprofit and public media to rethink their events strategies.Giovannoni: Listening dynamics of core NPR News listeners ‘are shifting in the wrong direction’
Three full months into the COVID-19 pandemic, listening to NPR News stations remains only 80% of what it was a year ago. ...
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