Programs/Content
KERA’s ‘Think’ to be distributed by PRX
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Hosted by Krys Boyd, the hourlong talk show airs on more than 200 stations.
Programs/Content
PRX to distribute WUNC program ‘Embodied’
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The hourlong program discusses sex, relationships, health and other themes that get into “taboo territory.”
Programs/Content
PRX accelerator adds podcasts on inside story of ‘Barney,’ Cincinnati’s sewer system to development slate
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The third cohort of PRX’s Journalism Podcast Accelerator includes projects from five public media organizations.
Programs/Content
KQED acquires ‘Snap Judgment’ and ‘Spooked’
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Both the flagship program and “Spooked” are produced by Snap Judgment Studios, based in Oakland.
Programs/Content
PRX to offer ‘Ezra Klein Show’ to public radio stations
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The show will be available to public radio stations starting Nov. 10.
System/Policy
PRX cuts positions due to declining podcast sponsorship
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The layoffs affected “teams including marketing, station services, training, and technology and advertising operations.”
Diversity in Public Media
How the pandemic has created challenges for PRX’s DEI director
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“When you’re at home, how do you engage in difference?” asks Byron Green, who joined PRX in April 2021. “How do you engage across differences at large?”
Programs/Content
‘Criminal’ will leave Radiotopia to join Vox Media
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The move will allow Criminal Productions to expand its staff and namesake podcast.
Programs/Content
PRX re-releases series exploring the history of Black culture through radio
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”With the amount of time and effort and love that we put into this, it should be available again,” said Sonja Williams, a producer of “Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was” who worked to bring the series back to the airwaves.
Featured in Category
PRX taps Janetta Stringfellow as CDO
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Stringfellow was a producer before she began working in development.
Programs/Content
Collaboration explores diversity of young Latino electorate
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“It starts shattering the monolith of Latinos or youth,” says a contributor to Every 30 Seconds.
Programs/Content
‘Snap Judgment’ rejoins PRX for distribution
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WNYC Studios has distributed the show since 2015.
Programs/Content
‘On Being’ distribution will move to WNYC Studios
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“The vision and breadth of WNYC’s portfolio feels like a good fit for what ‘On Being’ has become,” a spokesperson said.
Programs/Content
PRX, WGBH end BBC partnership on ‘The World’
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The move was a “strategic decision reached by PRX and WGBH.”
System/Policy
How the COVID-19 crisis points to a new path forward for public media
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“At this time, when stations are stretching themselves so far, can we reach beyond our known audiences and come a step closer to the promise of serving the broadest public?”
Programs/Content
‘The World’ receives CPB grant for project on young Latino voters
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Reporters at public radio stations will contribute to “Every 30 Seconds.”
Programs/Content
PRX podcast network will seek to ‘reach young audiences where they are’
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Debuting next year, the TRAX network will cater to tweens.
Quick Takes
PRI/PRX lays off six employees
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“For us to be successful, we had to streamline our organization,” said CEO Kerri Hoffman.
Programs/Content
After merger of PRI and PRX, ‘both companies will be affected in some way’
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The companies’ union is affecting personnel, programming and PRI’s relationship with WGBH.