Development
OPB receives $2 million boost to capital campaign
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CEO Steve Bass reflects on a year of fundraising during the pandemic, public media in Oregon and more.
Development
Competing interests seen as likely dealbreaker for national fund drive
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Several public media fundraisers take on a question submitted for our Currently Curious series: Why don’t public broadcasters coordinate on a national pledge drive?
Programs/Content
Five reasons to build on public media’s journalism collaborations
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If we set standards and build connections across the growing web of station-based collaborations, we will amplify our voices and expand the reach of our content.
System/Policy
Oregon stations attest to TV repack’s ‘detrimental effect’ on radio
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The repack work “threatens the survival of our public radio service as well as the health of our cultural community and economy,” said All Classical Portland CEO Suzanne Nance.
Programs/Content
CPB-backed diversity project draws close scrutiny
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Participants question the structure and leadership of a collaborative reporting project on race, ethnicity and culture that aims to bring more people of color into local newsrooms.
Programs/Content
CPB grant seeks to foster diversity in public radio newsrooms
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The four stations collaborating on the project will each hire a new reporter.
System/Policy
DOJ subpoenas former OPB reporter in Malheur Refuge trial
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John Sepulvado was subpoenaed to testify in federal court next week.
Programs/Content
‘Big Footprint’ journalism coming from CPB-backed collaboration
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Three joint licensees will share $500,000.
Programs/Content
Transmedia journalism expands storytelling for deeper impact
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The emerging production model plays to public media’s strengths: robust distribution on broadcast and online platforms, high-quality content and talented professionals who can adapt to new opportunities.
Awards
Texas Tribune, ProPublica lead nonprofit ONA winners
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Two winning reports aired on public radio’s “Reveal” and “Marketplace.”
System/Policy
NPR, stations credit audience gains to range of factors
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Election news, network and station efforts, and a change in Nielsen technology could all be contributing.
System/Policy
A station CEO on the struggle to find public TV’s “driving force”
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Steve Bass of Oregon Public Broadcasting reflects on the relationship of PBS and its member stations in the face of digital disruption.
System/Policy
U.S. pubcasters visit Kiev to advise on creating public media network
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Representatives from CPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting and the Association of Independents in Radio are in Ukraine’s capital.
Stations
OPB board members get a kick out of custom Nikes
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They’re made from the famous blankets produced in Pendleton, Ore.
Programs/Content
Public broadcasters fight limits on shooting in wilderness areas
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The proposed rule change could hamper productions at public TV stations in Oregon and Idaho.
People
Online Journalism honors include several pubmedia projects
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An Oregon Public Broadcasting journey through the Glacier Caves was among the winners.
Quick Takes
Thursday roundup: NPR drops Krulwich blog, VPR A Go Go is back
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Also: A head audio engineer at Oregon Public Broadcasting takes first prize in an Atari contest.
People
Mike Foti, engineering exec at WGBH and OPB, dies at 63
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Foti was WGBH’s director of engineering for 14 years before joining OPB in 2013.
Programs/Content
OPB asks WNET for “assurance” that funder didn’t influence Pension Peril
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Oregon Public Broadcasting has asked New York’s WNET to demonstrate that no “improper influence” was exerted by the primary funder of its special news series covering public pensions. OPB said in a Feb. 13 statement that it is “seeking assurance from WNET” that its Pension Peril series was not subject to improper editorial influence. In a PandoDaily article published earlier this week, reporter and columnist David Sirota called attention to a major funder of the series, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. According to Sirota, co-founder John Arnold has supported political efforts to reduce retirement benefits for public employees. Sirota argued that Arnold’s support for the WNET production calls its impartiality into question.
Quick Takes
OPB meets funding goal for new Southwest Washington bureau
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12/16/13: This item has been updated. Oregon Public Broadcasting is preparing to open a permanent bureau in Southwest Washington state by early 2014, and has surpassed $400,000 in funding to make it happen. The bureau will allow OPB to deepen its reporting on Washington’s Clark County, which is located just across the Columbia River from OPB headquarters in Portland, as well as cross-border issues and the Washington State legislature in Olympia. It will contain one staff member, a full-time multimedia reporter, to start. Stories produced by the bureau will be shared across public radio stations and for-profit media organizations in the Pacific Northwest, and with national outlets such as NPR and the PBS NewsHour.