Programs/Content
With ‘Every Voice’ podcast, Terrance McKnight explores racism in classical music
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WQXR’s new podcast opens with a series of episodes about racist ideas in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
Exit Interviews
Laura Walker: ‘Meeting mission and achieving deep impact are not warring principles’
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Reflecting on her 23 years as CEO of WYNC and NYPR, Laura Walker says success in public media comes from reaching for both ideals.
Quick Takes
Enthusiastic Torah broadcaster interferes with New York Public Radio signal in Brooklyn
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NYPR has filed three complaints with the FCC.
Development
While sustainers are growing, experts say public radio still needs new donors
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Efforts to build sustainer files have shifted from conversion to acquisition, according to a recent study by Target Analytics.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #65: Where the bleeps and bloops come from, live at The Greene Space
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If you’ve ever heard some digital slurp, bloop or BOOM in a radio story and thought “How’d they make that?”, listen to this episode of The Pub to find out.
NPR
NPR finds plagiarism in stories by WQXR editor
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WQXR’s Brian Wise resigned Wednesday after 10 of his stories had unattributed passages from other sources.
Quick Takes
Programming in Brief: PRI launches women-focused initiative, WQXR offers Berlin concerts, and more
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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.
Programs/Content
Chicago’s WFMT picks up distribution of Carnegie Hall Live
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Chicago’s WFMT announced Wednesday a deal with New York–based WQXR to distribute the 2014 season of Carnegie Hall Live. Entering its fourth season, Carnegie Hall Live kicks off Oct. 1 with a broadcast featuring the Berliner Philharmonker. The show is recorded and hosted by WQXR staffers in partnership with Carnegie Hall and was previously distributed by Minnesota-based American Public Media.
Quick Takes
Monday roundup: Alaska journalists raise concerns; Obama renominates CPB board member
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• A lengthy Columbia Journalism Review feature focuses on a conflict over journalistic ethics at Anchorage-based Alaska Public Media. CFO Bernie Washington has been nominated to serve on the State Assessment Review Board, which helps to determine revenues from oil taxes in the state. APM journalists are concerned about Washington’s appointment compromising the network’s coverage of the review board. “We are aghast, quite frankly, aghast that our management doesn’t understand that this is a solid, more than apparent conflict of interest,” Steve Heimel, host of Talk of Alaska, told CJR.
• President Obama will nominate Elizabeth Sembler for a second term on the CPB board, the White House announced Thursday. Sembler joined the board in 2008 as an appointee of President Bush; her term expires this year. She currently serves as the board’s vice chair.