Tag: Web/mobile content
PBS NewsHour expands online audience with website makeover
Page views have grown from 15.7 million in the first quarter of 2014 to 25.1 million in the fourth quarter.Not just about the money: Public radio veterans drawn to creative freedoms of podcasting
Podcasts with public radio connections dominate iTunes podcast charts, so it’s no wonder that podcasting companies are snapping up talented producers who ...Political news from Michigan’s WKAR goes mobile with new app
WKAR-TV in East Lansing, Mich., will make content from a weekly state politics and public affairs show available via a mobile app ...PRI develops tool to change how readers engage with its journalism
StoryAct will suggest ways that readers can take action.The doctors are in as Sesame Workshop tackles effects of mass incarceration
Two doctors who focus on the relationship between incarceration and public health have teamed up with a Sesame Street Muppet to call attention to ...Public media efforts get backing from latest NEA grants
Seven organizations associated with public media are among 1,116 grantees announced Tuesday by the National Endowment for the Arts for funding that ...By shifting focus, Whiteness Project aims for deeper discussion of race in America
Asking interviewees to consider their status as white Americans takes them, and viewers, into uncomfortable territory.Radiotopia’s Kickstarter funds will support internships, health care and more podcasts
Public Radio Exchange’s podcast network Radiotopia has raised $620,000 from 21,808 donors on Kickstarter, setting a record among publishing, radio and podcasting ...PBS to share coverage of major book fair with online viewers
The coverage from the Miami Book Fair International will stream live on PBS.org, member station websites and WorldChannel.org.PBS weighs balance between free, premium access for launch of Plus
PBS is preparing for a pilot run of Membership Video on Demand, a premium service for station contributors, under the new name ...WNET, PBS Digital Studios team up for new YouTube series
PBS Digital Studios is commissioning the digital media unit at New York’s WNET to produce 40 episodes for two new YouTube series, ...Clash over Poirot rights caps growing tensions between PBS, Acorn
Acorn TV, the upstart streaming service specializing in British television, is still a tiny operation, with about 115,000 paid subscribers. Nonetheless, its ...NPR podcast on Latino culture crosses over to radio
An NPR podcast hatched from a friendship four years ago took a step in its evolution earlier this month, becoming a weekly ...With new service, DMW seeks to help stations boost mobile giving
A new service from DMW Direct Fundraising aims to help pubmedia stations reach members and donors through cellphones and tablets, using software ...As methods for online giving grow, stations should prepare for ‘different fundraising landscape’
A mobile tipping point came earlier this year. For the first time, mobile devices accounted for 55 percent of Internet usage, according ...
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