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With two hosts at helm, ‘The Takeaway’ aims for depth and urgency in covering race and politics
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Tanzina Vega and Amy Walter tackle topics in ways that feel “like a much more open conversation.”
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Tanzina Vega and Amy Walter tackle topics in ways that feel “like a much more open conversation.”
An investigation of alleged misconduct also prompted PBS to suspend distribution of his weeknightly talk show.
WNYC decided to step away from the weekly arts and culture show.
The layoffs were made “to make room for other positions that better met our needs,” a PRI spokesperson said.
PRI currently distributes the programs.
NPR receives $315,000 for the project.
Public media journalists are casting a wide net for reactions to the election of Donald Trump.
Stories will come from correspondents embedded in immigrant communities.
Representatives from the major public radio networks respond to Stephanie Foo’s Transom commentary about diversity in public radio.
WGBH is hoping to increase its digital capacity and pool of international correspondents with the deal.
The deal will bolster international reporting for PRI.org and PRI’s The World.
With a new voice and lower-case title, the Canadian network is updating its most popular export to the U.S.
Plus: Kinsey Wilson’s move to the Times, plans at Voice of San Diego, and where to hear “Alice’s Restaurant.”
Plus: Grants to digital projects at PRI and WKAR.
Public Radio International will launch a multimedia program focused on women’s empowerment with a grant of about $1.28 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Across Women’s Lives is a “journalism and engagement initiative” examining the connection between women’s empowerment and health and economic development. The program highlights personal stories of women in Africa and India and looks at women’s lives from infancy to old age. The project’s content will be featured on PRI’s global news program The World and online. Additional content includes short video documentaries and educational tools to help listeners learn more about the topics covered.
After nearly 10 years on satellite radio, “The Bob Edwards Show” will cease production after Sept. 26, when the last of the original shows airs.
The pubcaster is restructuring its news division, with little effect on programs airing on stateside pubmedia.
Over half of this year’s RTDNA/UNITY Awards went to pubcasters, including a public TV station. WKAR-TV in East Lansing, Mich., won the award for small-market television for a documentary about racial tensions surrounding the 1975 trials of two Filipina Veterans Administration Hospital nurses. In the radio division, Seattle’s KUOW won among large-market entries with its report “Black in Seattle,” while Alabama Public Radio won the award for small-market stations with the story “Remembering 1963,” produced as part of a civil rights radio project. Public Radio International picked up the award for network radio for its series Global Nation: Stories of a Changing America. The UNITY awards are sponsored by UNITY: Journalists for Diversity, a coalition comprising the Asian American Journalism Association, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association and the Native American Journalists Association. Awardees are recognized for demonstrating an ongoing commitment to covering cultural diversity in their communities.
SoundWorks launched Thursday with four podcasts, and PRI plans to add more in coming weeks.
After This American Life parts with longtime distributor Public Radio International July 1, it could become public radio’s most widely carried show without a major distributor representing it. That’s if the show pursues that option. Program host and creator Ira Glass has hinted in interviews with the New York Times and Chicago media reporter Robert Feder that he’s considering self-distribution. But there may be good reasons that few shows have gone that route. Self-distribution poses challenges that few resource-strapped program creators are willing to take on, including handling their own billing, marketing and station relations.