Tag: NPR
Planet Money crowdfunder soars, PRI campaign falls short of goal
Two of public radio’s three biggest distributors launched major crowdfunding experiments in the past month, with wildly different results.NPR, WLRN team up to expand reporting on Latin America
NPR and Miami’s WLRN are collaborating to boost coverage of Latin America, with NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro assigned to a new foreign desk ...Audio diarists share new stories in Teenage Diaries Revisited
Beginning May 6 on NPR's All Things Considered, listeners will hear five voices from the past that may have a familiar ring. They’re a ...Planet Money launches Kickstarter campaign for T-shirt reporting project
NPR launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign backing a special investigative project by Planet Money, its reporting unit that produces multi-platform economics coverage.A digital revolution for public radio fundraising
Marketing consultant John Sutton has been forecasting what public radio will look like in 2018, and his predictions, published on his blog RadioSutton ...NPR website, Twitter accounts hacked by Syrian counter-revolutionary group
Late at night on April 15, NPR.org and several NPR-affiliated Twitter feeds were hacked into by an online Syrian counter-revolutionary movement, which ...From Massachusetts Ave. to NoMa
The April 13 broadcast of Weekend Edition Saturday was the first to originate from NPR's new $201 million headquarters.To connect with the under-30 crowd, NPR tries face time
NPR Generation Listen, the network's new outreach effort for millenials, sees one-on-one interaction as the key to cultivating its younger fanbase.NPR cancels Talk of the Nation, pairs with WBUR in bid to bolster middays
After more than two decades on the air, NPR’s Talk of the Nation will come to an end in June to make ...PRPD offers new round of trainings
The Public Radio Program Directors Association will expand its training programs for stations this year and continue its Sense of Place studies ...NPR drops Talk of the Nation, replaces with WBUR’s Here & Now
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. After more than two decades on the air, NPR’s Talk of the Nation will ...NPR to pilot alerts for people with hearing disabilities
NPR will test a system for delivering emergency alerts to individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing in Gulf Coast states under a ...NPR’s Generation Listen launch a hit at SXSW
NPR launched its new Generation Listen initiative in Austin, Texas, with a blowout bash March 11. The party, held in the midst ...The name needs revamping, but podcasts are here to stay
If you’re a public radio station without a plan for how to take advantage of the remarkably flexible and creative platform of ...Dana Davis Rehm to leave NPR due to restructuring
Dana Davis Rehm, NPR’s senior v.p. of marketing, communications and external relations, will leave the network May 6 due to a reorganization ...
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