Podcasts
‘The Pub’ #47: WGBH’s Bob Kempf on why stations matter online
In the digital age, when national networks can serve people directly online, does it make sense to invest in hundreds of local ...‘The Pub’ #46: Why NPR’s studio mic sounds better than yours
Our Thanksgiving re-podcast includes an interview with NPR’s chief audio engineer.‘The Pub’ #45: Audible’s Martha Little says public media should be ‘feminized’
Little says public media workplaces work better when they’re flatter and more collaborative.‘The Pub’ #44: Public media travel guru Rick Steves, live in Atlanta
The travel host discusses his business model, whether he feels pressure to follow Vice’s example, his advocacy for marijuana legalization and more.‘The Pub’ #43: Why public media are sponsoring polls, and how a CBC video went ...
How do political polls fit with public media’s mission?‘The Pub’ #42: This American Life’s Stephanie Foo on how to fix public radio’s whiteness ...
Foo talks about her frank and funny manifesto for Transom, “What To Do If Your Workplace Is Too White.”The Pub #41: Marketplace’s Ben Johnson and his unusual new podcast, Codebreaker
Everybody has a new podcast these days, but this one does something quite novel with the medium.‘The Pub’ #40: Chris Satullo, WHYY’s former v.p. for news
Satullo had big, somewhat unorthodox plans for news at Philadelphia’s dominant public radio and television station.‘The Pub’ #39: Public radio’s two audiences, PBS news VP Marie Nelson, Auto-Tune on kids’ ...
Research shows that baby boomers and millennials are not only listening to public radio differently, but for different reasons.‘The Pub’ #38: Robin Amer, winner of WNYC’s Podcast Accelerator competition
If you want to know how to impress the likes of WNYC, pay attention to how Amer did it.
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