Programs/Content
WFIU podcast explores broader implications of death penalty executions carried out in 2020
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“Rush to Kill” digs into a complex national story that consumed WFIU’s news team during the last months of the Trump administration.
Programs/Content
WFIU show aims to expand environmental reporting on Indiana and beyond
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The new radio show and podcast will prepare listeners for addressing the “grand challenge” of environmental change.
Quick Takes
Indiana station offers new classical music service
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The station wanted to create a classical music service with a price “low enough so that stations could use it to cover less critical dayparts.”
System/Policy
Eleven stations partner for Indiana news network
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CPB is supporting the Indiana-based Regional Journalism Center with a $609,000 grant.
Programs/Content
Listeners who campaigned for classical music on WFIU put own interests over public service
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Classical music is a big part of the cultural fabric of Bloomington. But WFIU wasn’t aiming to eliminate local music programming.
Programs/Content
Don’t mess with the Met: WFIU reverses course on weekend schedule
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An outcry from listeners prompted WFIU-FM in Bloomington, Ind., to announce Aug. 13 that it would restore classical programming to its schedule, less than two months after taking much of the music off its airwaves.
People
Pubcasters capture 21 national Edward R. Murrow Awards
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WLRN in Miami won large-market radio Murrows for feature reporting and use of sound. Chicago’s WBEZ also won for news documentary and hard-news reporting. The award for investigative reporting went to KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting, both based in San Francisco, for “Broken Shield: Exposing Abuses at California Developmental Centers.”