Quick Takes
A list of public radio talent that’s moved to for-profit media
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Expect the list of 37 moves to keep growing.
Programs/Content
Could Facebook be the next big platform for podcasts?
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WNYC is experimenting with sharing “audiograms” on social networks, taking advantage of Facebook’s new video player.
Programs/Content
WBUR and The New York Times partner on ‘Modern Love’ podcast
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The idea grew out of the station’s internal innovation lab.
Programs/Content
Digital audience grows for NPR and stations, but live streaming stalls
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The total hours of NPR podcasts downloaded rose 45 percent from fall 2014 to fall 2015.
Podcasting
Anna Sale on podcasts: ‘People feel a relationship with the show’
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The host of Death, Sex & Money on how she gets her guests to share intimate details.
Programs/Content
NPR app offers curated guide to podcasts
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The new podcast discovery app culled picks from about 6,000 recommendations.
"The Pub" Podcast
The Pub #41: Marketplace’s Ben Johnson and his unusual new podcast, Codebreaker
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Everybody has a new podcast these days, but this one does something quite novel with the medium.
System/Policy
Fred Jacobs: “To a great degree, public radio has two audiences”
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The audience researcher discusses findings of his company’s latest Public Radio Tech Survey.
Programs/Content
Drop in younger listeners makes dent in NPR news audience
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The trend could affect revenue for NPR and its member stations.
Quick Takes
PRX and ‘Esquire’ team up on podcast
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The magazine and PRX launched a podcast Monday focusing on nonfiction articles from Esquire’s 82 years of archives.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #38: Robin Amer, winner of WNYC’s Podcast Accelerator competition
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If you want to know how to impress the likes of WNYC, pay attention to how Amer did it.
Programs/Content
Program directors challenged to think about audience, not formats
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Former NPR programming exec Eric Nuzum, now at Audible, had candid advice for his audience at the PRPD conference.
Podcasting
Podcast Accelerator contest winners will make pilots with WNYC
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The would-be producers of The City and Gaydio will get production help from the New York City station.
Programs/Content
PodScanning: New podcasts from WGBH, KQED and WNYC
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The podcasts cover football, digital love and the war in Afghanistan.
People
Julie Shapiro heads to Radiotopia, baseball veteran joins KET, and other comings and goings in public media
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Shapiro co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival.
Programs/Content
Podscanning: Wyoming network hopes lure of West will broaden appeal
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Wyoming Public Media is looking for an audience beyond its sparsely populated state.
Programs/Content
John Sutton and Adam Davidson debate the future of public radio
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A segment on our podcast touched off this in-depth exchange between the audience researcher and the Planet Money co-founder.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #31: Adam Davidson on the economics of public radio in the podcasting era
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NPR can have a viable future, says the Planet Money co-founder, but only if it dramatically restructures and raises its game.
Quick Takes
NPR, WNYC to participate in second podcast upfront
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The event takes place Sept. 10 in New York City.
Quick Takes
NPR to launch new podcast, ‘Hidden Brain’
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The new podcast from NPR’s Science Desk aims to “reveal patterns that drive human behavior.”