Tag: NPR
NPR budget for new fiscal year aims to avoid layoffs despite deficit
A projected shortfall of $29 million will be closed with furloughs and other cost-saving measures.NPR union calls out organization’s diversity failings, demands changes
Leaders of NPR’s SAG-AFTRA union are demanding the organization make changes around 13 issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion.How NPR built the launch pad for its first podcasts
In early 2005, few people inside NPR understood podcasts or knew how to listen to one. But that would change by summer's ...NPR, stations respond to Blackbaud ransomware attack
NPR and stations said they were told that Social Security numbers and credit card and bank account information were not exposed in ...NPR’s ‘Hidden Brain’ goes independent
NPR will continue to distribute the radio show.Participants find pros and cons to online networking at virtual NABJ/NAHJ conference
Organizations in the Public Media Village at this month's event ran into new challenges in networking with job-seekers. But attendees said they ...TikTok grants help pubmedia get creative with short-form videos
Producers are using the popular platform to test ideas while also reaching new and younger audiences.NPR, advocacy group call on Congress to give university stations access to PPP
University stations have been shut out of applying for the relief loans.Giovannoni: Listening dynamics of core NPR News listeners ‘are shifting in the wrong direction’
Three full months into the COVID-19 pandemic, listening to NPR News stations remains only 80% of what it was a year ago. ...When one way of speaking dominates, who gets to tell their stories on public radio?
A journalism school professor argues that NPR's emphasis on unaccented English "undermines NPR’s original mission of engaging listeners civically."Marcia Davis named NPR’s supervising editor of race and identity
Davis previously worked for the Washington Post and the Marshall Project.An open letter to NPR President John Lansing: Racial justice is public media’s mission
Current Executive Director Julie Drizin responds to Lansing's call to action to confront racism.‘Morning Edition’ asks listeners to share thoughts about Ahmaud Arbery in verse
Poetry can be a way to deal with "heavy, emotionally weighted things," says Kwame Alexander, who co-hosts the show's poetry segments.NPR receives $4.7M to support two regional newsrooms
The Midwest regional newsroom is the fourth in NPR’s Collaborative Journalism Network.WBEZ’s Jenn White named host of ‘1A’
White will succeed founding host Joshua Johnson.
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