System/Policy
Oregon Public Broadcasting partners with Lookout Local to bring more news to Eugene
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Lookout CEO Ken Doctor describes Lookout Eugene-Springfield as a “community newspaper that happens to be digital.”
System/Policy
NPR will expand collaborative regional newsrooms
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At a board meeting, Chief of Staff Chris Turpin also shared updates on NPR Network initiatives.
Programs/Content
Public Media Venture Group partners with tech company to build content syndication networks
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PMVG plans to work with up to five stations to build regional partnerships for sharing news coverage.
Programs/Content
New York stations team up on news network
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“We all recognize that working together makes us stronger, and it helps us serve our audiences across the state much better.”
Tech
KQED launches project to share digital news among California partners
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The station is trying to address the “really hard problem” of how local news organizations “get more reach, get more audience, get more money to pay for the good work they do,” says KQED’s Tim Olson.
Programs/Content
Storytelling series unites Southern stations with regional collaboration
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“The best stories are universal. It doesn’t matter where they’re set,” said Arkansas PBS CEO Courtney Pledger.
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.
Programs/Content
KCUR aims for new audiences with its first investigative podcast, ‘Overlooked’
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“This is a story for anybody who cares about justice and cares about … holding people to account,” said Holly Edgell, managing editor for the Midwest Newsroom.
Programs/Content
Florida collaborative seeks to increase news coverage of underserved Gulf Coast counties
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The collaborative based at WUSF in Tampa will provide reporting to 12 local public and commercial outlets.
System/Policy
How WGCU rode out Hurricane Ian and maintained radio service through the thick of the storm
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The station in Fort Myers, Fla., turned its TV studios over to a local Fox affiliate and relied on an auxiliary radio transmitter to stay on the air.
System/Policy
KERA acquisition will shore up long-running Denton newspaper
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The Dallas station is looking to expand its portfolio of news collaborations.
System/Policy
KERA, Fort Worth news outlet agree to journalism collaboration
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The two outlets will share content and plan to co-host events.
System/Policy
Ohio news collaboration seeks to fill coverage gaps, understand community needs
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The Ohio Newsroom, a project among the state’s public radio stations, already has four CPB-funded freelancers on board assisting with reporting and editing.
Collaboration
Watch our webinar about collaborations that are shaping public media
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As part of our “In This Together” series, we spoke with Ideastream Public Media’s Kevin Martin and Scott Finn of Vermont Public Radio/Vermont PBS.
Programs/Content
How the Hindsight Project built new relationships between Southern stations and BIPOC filmmakers
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“It’s BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It’s not people who are from outside the South coming in and telling what they conceive of the South.”
Programs/Content
New England News Collaborative sunsets radio show, refocuses strategy
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The collaborative ended its show “Next” last month to focus on new priorities.
System/Policy
By joining forces, stations find new potential for boosting revenue, content
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“Television and radio should be getting together. Joint licensees have advantages that neither one of us have individually.”
Programs/Content
How NPR and stations are working together to expand regional news
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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.
Programs/Content
Los Angeles partners revamp local daily news breaks into ‘SoCal Update’
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Journalists from KPCC and LAist share reporting on top stories of the day in short segments that air on PBS SoCal and KCET.
Programs/Content
Texas stations partner to report on chemical disasters in the state
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Texas Public Radio and Houston Public Media’s reporting series, “Fire Triangle,” examines the recurrence of chemical explosions and what can be done to prevent them.