Tag: Diversity
What a public radio program director learned at Podcast Movement 2015
Roman Mars is a hero, there’s a problem with dude overload, and more.How KPCC worked to grow its Latino audience in Los Angeles
It took getting through a difficult period of culture change at the station.Study points to lack of diversity on NPR and member station boards
A new study finds that boards of NPR and eight large-market public radio stations are made up mostly of men, white people ...News directors’ conference focuses on diversity in hiring and reporting
The Public Radio News Directors conference featured a pair of sessions on the subject.Celebration of Lakshmi Singh meme delves into diversity issues that inspired it
The WNYC event mixed whimsy and seriousness to explore issues of diversity in public radio.CPB backs new episodes of Hinojosa’s America By The Numbers
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting awarded an $850,000 grant for eight new half-hour episodes of America By The Numbers, a series featuring journalist Maria Hinojosa ...New partnership fuels Al Letson’s collaborative work on State of the Re:Union
Letson, the performance artist and playwright behind SOTRU, begins 2014 with a new production partner, renewed funding and ambitions to take his show ...CPB to support more collaborative journalism projects
CPB will devote $2.5 million to reporting projects spearheaded by stations and national producers, President Patricia Harrison announced Nov. 12 at the ...Downton Abbey once again helps generate big budget surplus for PBS
PBS closed its books on fiscal 2013 with an extra $24.5 million — more than twice the $11 million surplus that bolstered ...Gambit to go independent opens new doors for Hinojosa
In launching her own media company, Maria Hinojosa sought to bring a “consistent presence” of a Latina journalist to PBS and take ...WXXI reporter’s trip builds bridge between Rochester and South Sudan
The educational system in the newly independent South Sudan is undergoing many changes, and WXXI’s Hélène Biandudi recently reported on them firsthand ...The ‘ongoing process’ of diversity
Public radio stations trying to diversify their audiences, staffs and programming have found an increasingly active ally in NPR, whose leaders have ...Tavis Smiley: It’s time to start walking the walk of service to minority communities
Torey Malatia’s argument against “advocacy journalism” — leveled at Smiley & West after Chicago's WBEZ carried the program for two years — is merely ...Minnesota Public Radio’s Chris Worthington receives diversity award
Presented by AAJA Minnesota, the Leadership in Diversity Award honors someone who has made great strides in promoting and demonstrating diversity in ...Hinojosa explores civic life in town where multiculturalism is the norm
America By The Numbers, a PBS election special produced by Maria Hinojosa, looks at the demographic shifts found in U.S. Census data, focusing on ...
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