Tag: Crowdfunding
How Scott Carrier is navigating the plight of the lone, listener-sponsored podcaster
Producers who have left public radio to go solo as podcasters have made some outstanding work. But the work has sometimes made ...‘Nova’ sets $2.25M stretch goal for first Kickstarter campaign
With crowd backing, a science special featuring David Pogue would be distributed to every U.S. high school.Crowdfunding campaign nets TV station $20K for web series on climate change
Station Manager Paul Hunton says the crowdfunding campaign tapped into a formula that can be scaled to size.Wednesday roundup: Lessons from Radiotopia’s Kickstarter; Scharpling readies his podcast
Plus: A producer needs her mic back, and Splendid Table gets pranked.Radiotopia’s Kickstarter funds will support internships, health care and more podcasts
Public Radio Exchange’s podcast network Radiotopia has raised $620,000 from 21,808 donors on Kickstarter, setting a record among publishing, radio and podcasting ...Tuesday roundup: Sun columnist criticizes PBS; Pacifica board censures directors
Plus: WGBH options Pinkalicious, and an Indiegogo project with support from Ken Burns is falling short.PBS Digital Studios, Indiegogo partner on crowdfunding for stations’ online videos
The network wants stations to build up sustainable, supportive audiences for digital series.With crowdfunding, rethink your expectations for engaging public media’s supporters
As a growing number of public media organizations turn to Kickstarter to raise funding for new projects — with mixed success — ...Follow Planet Money’s Kickstarted T-shirt odyssey
The cotton T-shirt, a public radio merchandising staple, is front-and-center in a new multimedia project from NPR's economics reporting unit Planet Money.Planet Money crowdfunder soars, PRI campaign falls short of goal
Two of public radio’s three biggest distributors launched major crowdfunding experiments in the past month, with wildly different results.PRI launches crowdfunding campaign to fund global stories, entice new donors
A crowdfunding campaign launched April 15 by Public Radio International seeks $25,000 for a “Global Stories Fund” that will support 11 international ...Use of crowdfunding site flags under APM
Spot.us, the crowdfunding website allowing journalists to raise funds for their reporting projects, has been hit by a sharp decline in usage ...Community-funded Homicide Watch partners with Sun-Times to launch Chicago website
Homicide Watch, a crowdfunded community reporting site that tracks city murder victims, will launch its third site in Chicago by the end ...Kickstarter-backed comic book will illustrate pubradio series on consciousness
The Peabody-winning pubradio program To the Best of Our Knowledge has successfully completed a $15,000 Kickstarter campaign to produce a comic book that will ...Podcast with limited radio airplay sets Kickstarter record
Roman Mars is a hard man to find on the radio. Only ten terrestrial stations regularly broadcast his Public Radio Exchange–distributed program 99% Invisible, ...
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