Quick Takes
‘Serial’ creators announce new podcast, production company
|
The debut podcast “S-Town” will be released next month.
Programs/Content
Producer reveals how disciplined story planning, authenticity made ‘Serial’ shine
|
At Third Coast, the producer of the smash-hit podcast candidly described the problems that hindered its second season.
Quick Takes
Get out those crayons, Sarah Koenig needs a face
|
A podcast coloring book is now a thing.
Programs/Content
Why public radio stations need to claim the podcast space
|
The popularity of Serial and other podcasts “represents a massive opportunity that could help save public radio as we know it.”
Programs/Content
Second season of ‘Serial’ drops
|
After much anticipation, a new episode of the podcast is in fans’ feeds.
Programs/Content
‘Serial,’ ‘This American Life’ to appear on Pandora
|
Pandora will not be the exclusive home of the show, as a report suggested.
Quick Takes
‘Serial’ could end up on your TV as well as your earbuds
|
But not everyone thinks a TV version is such a good idea.
Programs/Content
Ira Glass: ‘The main thing I’m doing still is radio’
|
Despite having a new company, 80 percent of Glass’s time will be spent on editorial work.
Programs/Content
Serial creators share behind-the-scenes stories at live event
|
The creators had an idea for a show before Serial, but their colleagues “hated it.”
Podcasting
Serial announces work on two new seasons
|
The second season launches this fall and the third airs next spring.
Quick Takes
Weekly roundup: Norman Lear vs. PBS, funding strategies and more
|
Plus a video to give you vertigo.
Quick Takes
Weekly roundup: Serial, Sound Medicine and community radio
|
Plus a marriage proposal delivered by pledge drive.
Programs/Content
Serial subject granted appeal
|
Adnan Syed, the subject of the podcast, has a chance to overturn his life sentence for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend.
Programs/Content
The first of our new improved weekly roundups — now with more content
|
This week: the Congressional Downtown Abbey office, new conferences, digital wisdom and more.
System/Policy
Five lessons public media can learn from commercial media
|
A public radio and TV CEO shares gleanings from Columbia University’s Punch Sulzberger Program.
Quick Takes
Thursday roundup: Serial wraps, Texas Tribune finds new partner
|
Plus: CPB offers funds for spectrum auction planning.
Quick Takes
Thursday roundup: Expansions for NJTV, PBS SoCal; Melody Kramer on Serial
|
Plus: Bill Keller keeps cool.
Quick Takes
Monday roundup: WNYC’s plans for health coverage; Mike Nichols’s pronunciation test
|
Plus: The debated relevance of Audience 98 in 2014, and a petition to deny Serial a day off.
Quick Takes
Wednesday roundup: Zoboomafoo lemur dies; that’s Mailchimp
|
Plus: NPR’s ombud weighs in on a story from El Salvador, and IowaWatch weighs the fate of a radio show.
Quick Takes
Friday roundup: Parachutist gets stuck on St. Louis tower; PBS station’s finance manager pleads guilty to embezzling
|
• The broadcast tower of St. Louis’s Nine Network picked up an unexpected Halloween decoration Thursday night: a parachutist who was stuck for two hours about 120 feet off the ground, reports KMOV-TV. Firefighters rescued 27-year-old Timothy Church after he attempted to jump off the tower. The illicit leaper and an accomplice were charged with trespassing. https://twitter.com/CoryStarkKMOV/status/528035355585695744/
• Elsewhere on the crime beat, a former finance manager for WFWA-TV in Fort Wayne, Ind., pleaded guilty Thursday to embezzling money from the station in July 2010, according to the News-Sentinel.