System/Policy
NPR and member stations team up on incubation lab to tackle system challenges
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Staffers at NPR and member stations will work full-time in four-month stints to address digital engagement, network collaboration and on-demand audio.
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Staffers at NPR and member stations will work full-time in four-month stints to address digital engagement, network collaboration and on-demand audio.
The company has not signed on with Remote Audio Data, which can give podcast producers expanded analytics tracking their listeners’ habits.
To answer a reader’s question, we asked NPR and WBUR how they approach advertising on podcasts.
Scott Horsley replaces John Ydstie, who retired in November.
“The ice is melting beneath our feet with the current business model,” writes a station leader.
Remote Audio Data aims to help podcast creators and advertisers better understand their audiences.
Mohn’s commitment to stations at NPR “is ingrained in that organization as a strategic imperative,” said one station GM.
Mohn will continue to work with NPR as president emeritus, building relationships with donors.
Economics Correspondent John Ydstie, who joined NPR in 1979, will retire Friday.
In comments filed Wednesday, the network said eligible expenses proposed by the FCC “should be considered an initial provisional list of common anticipated expenses rather than a definitive catalog of all eligible reimbursable expenses.”
“Several people” at NPR apologized to Gisele Regatao after her story about an art exhibit was rejected.
The Washington Post published an op-ed Thursday in which NPR chief business editor Pallavi Gogoi accused a top Indian politician of assaulting her when she was in her early ’20s.
NPR said the proposal by the C-Band Alliance “offers a workable, if yet unproven option” for resolving the matter.
Sacha Pfeiffer, whose work was the focus of the movie “Spotlight,” will join the team.
Backers of U.S. public radio’s sole overseas outpost hope that it can be both a marketing opportunity for KCRW and a unifying force for its city,
The announcement comes nearly a year after Michael Oreskes resigned from the job following sexual harassment claims.
A suit alleges that a lack of closed captioning on NPR.org makes it difficult for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to use the site.
NPR has urged the FCC to protect public broadcasters using the spectrum to distribute programming.
Local stations “have limited financial and operational resources to absorb the impact of the TV repack,” NPR said in FCC comments.
Jo Anne Wallace, VP and GM of KQED Radio, has worked for the San Francisco station since 1990.