Tag: NPR
The Future of Media Leadership: A Storify
Follow the conversation around the next generation of public media leaders with Current's Storify of the June 14 forum.Fresh Air returning to daytime in Mississippi
Fresh Air will air during daytime hours on MPB’s Think Radio network for the first time since 2010, when the network’s then–Executive Director Judith ...OK Go’s Tiny Desk concert makes for an epic NPR move
In a single video, for the song “All Is Not Lost,” rock band OK Go performed both the last-ever Tiny Desk concert ...Pubradio contenders dominate radio division of Sigma Delta Chi Awards
Public radio reporters took all nine awards for radio reporting in this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards, which recognize outstanding reporting on ...Pubcasters win total of 173 regional Murrow Awards
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 ...NPR, AIR unveil resource site for freelancers
NPR and the Association of Independents in Radio have launched the Freelance and Station Contributor Resource Site, an online repository of information ...Three NPR journalists will embark on fellowships
Three NPR journalists will start academic fellowships starting this fall, with Dina Temple-Raston and Alison MacAdam joining the Nieman program at Harvard, ...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.
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