Programs/Content
‘The Pub’ #109: Classical station KMFA’s musical 50th-birthday gift to itself
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Part of the station’s community outreach included commissioning a local composer to write a theme song.
Development
While sustainers are growing, experts say public radio still needs new donors
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Efforts to build sustainer files have shifted from conversion to acquisition, according to a recent study by Target Analytics.
People
NPR hires two reporters, WXXI news director rappels down 21 stories, and more…
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Leila Fadel, Cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post, signs on as NPR’s Cairo-based correspondent in July. She covered the Iraq War for almost five years and won a George Polk Award in 2007 for her reporting from Baghdad. She replaces Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, who will report from Kabul, Afghanistan, and then Berlin. Gregory Warner, a senior reporter for American Public Media’s Marketplace, will join NPR as East Africa correspondent, based in Nairobi, Kenya, in December. Warner now covers the economics and business of healthcare, but he’s previously reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the DR Congo.