System/Policy
How KBIA’s small newsroom won an Online News Association award
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A relationship with the Missouri School of Journalism brings opportunities to educate and innovate.
Awards
Pubmedia and nonprofit news well represented at 2015 ONA Awards
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NPR, The Texas Tribune and Missouri’s KBIA-FM were among the public media winners at the ceremony in Los Angeles Saturday.
Quick Takes
Friday roundup: WYPR union bid fails; stations plan to add news, cut classical
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Plus: A blogger considers a classical app, and the Onion tells the truth about Ira Glass.
Tech
Student-designed Android app gathers donations for public radio’s producers
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My2Cents Radio took top prize in an app-development competition co-sponsored by the Public Media Platform.
Programs/Content
Grad student teams up with Missouri’s KBIA to measure decibels in noisy city
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The sensor-journalism project will allow for heat maps and other visualizations of noise levels in Columbia, Mo.
People
Pubcasters win total of 173 regional Murrow Awards
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NPR stations won 82 large-market regional Murrow Awards, while small-market pubcasters captured 91. Among all stations, WLRN in Miami topped public radio’s regional winners by taking 11 awards in 13 Murrow categories: overall excellence, breaking news, continuing coverage, feature reporting, investigative reporting, news documentary, new series, hard-news reporting, use of sound, writing and website. “We feel thrilled and humbled by the honor,” said Dan Grech, news director. “I couldn’t be prouder of the team.”
Four additional large-market pubcasters each won six Murrows: KQED in San Francisco, WBEZ in Chicago, KUT in Austin and WBUR in Boston. And four large-market stations each won four Murrows: KUOW in Seattle; St.