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The leaders of KUT and KERA spoke about how they’re managing the crisis in a webinar produced by Current, Greater Public, Public Radio Program Directors and the Public Media Journalists Association.
Blue Ridge Public Radio and KUT in Austin, Texas, recently shared results of yearlong surveys.
On the air since 1970, “In Black America” has aimed to present “a broad spectrum of the African American experience.”
Debbie Hiott, a 26-year veteran of the Austin American-Statesman, signs on with the station Jan. 14.
Formerly news director at the station, Donahue will join Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence firm.
In a statement, the station said a recommendation from its licensee’s legal department in part prompted the removal.
Managing Editor Matt Largey told news staff that attorneys advised KUT to withdraw the stories from its website, according to three staffers.
Patti Smith will step down Oct. 8, according to an email she sent to staff Monday afternoon.
Interim GM Patti Smith and KUT journalists also disagreed when Smith intervened in the station’s coverage of its own internal matters.
Journalists of color have pressed KUT leaders to address multiple concerns about the workplace climate.
An attendee at the Public Radio Program Directors Conference asked whether public media should build its own music-streaming platform similar to Spotify and Pandora.
Conference attendees bid farewell to outgoing Greater Public CEO Doug Eichten.
“Focus more on the community-service angle rather than production challenges.”
The initiative grows out of the stations’ partnership on producing the daily newsmagazine Texas Standard.
Inside a new hourlong weekday newsmag from the Austin, Texas, broadcaster.
A collaborative news hub in New Mexico, sea level monitoring project in south Florida and music visualization project in Texas are among the 12 winners of this year’s Online News Association Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education.
Larry Monroe, a longtime DJ with Austin’s KUT-FM, died Jan. 17 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 71.
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WLRN in Miami won large-market radio Murrows for feature reporting and use of sound. Chicago’s WBEZ also won for news documentary and hard-news reporting. The award for investigative reporting went to KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting, both based in San Francisco, for “Broken Shield: Exposing Abuses at California Developmental Centers.”
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.