Quick Takes
Public media orgs begin effort to ‘raise journalistic ambition’ through newsroom surveys
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Public media newsroom leaders are being asked to complete five surveys to help “improve the strength of our journalism system-wide.”
PRI, PRX merge to form new organization
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PRX’s Kerri Hoffman will run the new organization, while PRI’s Alisa Miller will move into a board leadership role.
CPB
CPB extends funding for PRX, WNYC podcast projects
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The $1.7 million backs efforts to help under-represented producers of podcasts network and incubate ideas.
Programs/Content
How design thinking gave these producers a fresh approach to local podcasts
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The producers of the podcasts We Live Here and Out of the Blocks share lessons from PRX’s Project Catapult.
Quick Takes
PRX partners with podcast networks Gen-Z Media and Night Vale Presents
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The partnership marks PRX’s first time working with children’s podcasts.
Quick Takes
Latest Radiotopia podcast takes listeners inside San Quentin
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The podcast, incubated through PRX’s Podquest contest, debuts June 14.
Programs/Content
PRX will take over distribution of two Wisconsin radio shows
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PRI currently distributes the programs.
Quick Takes
Podcast on prison stories wins PRX backing
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The podcast will produce 10 episodes to premiere next year.
Programs/Content
WHYY releases new kids-focused podcast, and other news in podcasting
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Radiotopia has announced Podquest finalists, and APM is adding a new podcast.
Quick Takes
Radiotopia narrows field in podcast contest
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At least one finalist will be chosen in November to become a member of Radiotopia.
Programs/Content
WNYC will distribute ‘Snap Judgment’
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The program will become the fifth show distributed by the New York station.
PRX
Radiotopia opens contest to find its next podcast
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Three finalists will be chosen to produce pilot podcast episodes and at least one will join the network.
Programs/Content
‘Reveal’ looks to take investigative reporting and collaboration to new levels
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Less than two years old, the PRX/Center for Investigative Reporting production has grown beyond just an investigative show.
Podcasting
PodScanning: Station tackles culture wars with new podcast
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting hopes to attract a national audience with its new program, Gimlet releases its third show, and more podcasting news.
Podcasting
PRX expands Radiotopia with $1 million grant
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Funds will go toward hiring a new executive producer and supporting the podcast network’s independent producers.
Programs/Content
PodScanning: Highlighting new podcasts and industry news
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In this new column, we’ll feature new podcasts popping up in the public media space or produced by pubmedia alums and news about the podcasting industry.
"The Pub" Podcast
The Pub, Episode 3: Podcasting tests definition of public media, Indiana governor does too
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PRX CEO Jake Shapiro says “the definition of public media . . . has to be stretched.”
Quick Takes
Wednesday roundup: Ferguson prompts concerns for reporters’ safety; podcast exec shares tips
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Plus: Bill McKibben gives Sound Opinions some love.
Programs/Content
NEH awards $2 million to pubmedia projects
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Seven public media projects got a boost July 21 with the announcement of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which included almost $2 million for pubcasters. The largest grants, each for $600,000, will support documentaries from WGBH in Boston and Firelight Media in New York. WGBH will use the grant for a two-hour American Experience episode, “Into the Amazon: The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition.” The documentary, produced by American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels, covers a 1913 expedition to an unmapped territory of the Amazon led by Theodore Roosevelt and Brazilian colonel Candido Rondon. Firelight Media, whose documentaries frequently air on PBS, will use the grant to fund Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Firelight founder and filmmaker Stanley Nelson is leading the project to produce the two-hour documentary.
Quick Takes
CIR announces $3.5M in grants for Reveal, promotion for Alvarado
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The money will go toward the long-term production of the investigative pubradio show.