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WEBBy Michael O'Connell, Host/Producer (It's All Journalism) | September 10, 2024. On a recent episode of the podcast “Better News,” Amy Zielinski, senior event producer for Vermont Public, discussed her station’s live events strategy and what it learned from participating in a five-month event sprint. People.
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Pubmedia faces challenges in filling local news ‘void,’ report says ...
WEB19 hours ago · Pubmedia faces financial, governance challenges in filling local news ‘void,’ new report says. Ralph Nader speaks at Brigham Young University's Alternative Commencement in April 2007. Public media stations need stable funding and changes such as a mandate that boards represent their communities …
How public radio's structure, growing resources are giving local ...
WEBOct 24, 2022 · NPR estimates that in fall 2021, the weekly audience for all of public radio was 35.8 million. Looking specifically at the weekly broadcast audience numbers for NPR member stations, the total for 2021 came to 33 million. In 2011, that number was more than 34 million, and in 2001, that number was more than 25 million.
NPR budgets for improved financial outlook in new fiscal year
WEBSep 24, 2021 · NPR’s board of directors approved a budget Sept. 14 that anticipates breaking even in the upcoming fiscal year following two years of deficits. The budget allots for $292.8 million in revenue, which would be an all-time high for NPR, and expenses of $279.1 million, CFO Deborah Cowan told the board’s finance committee Sept. 9.
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How public broadcasting overcame early setbacks to become a …
WEBJun 11, 2021 · National Public Radio was finally constituted in 1971 out of the talent of a tenacious and decentralized university network that had been based at the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, a trade organization that was founded in 1925 and disbanded in 1981. Fast forward to 2021, and the origin …
Diversity, equity and inclusion in public media – Current
WEBServing the American public in all of its diversity is an important part of the mission of public media articulated in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. But the overwhelming consensus now is that the system has failed to live its values, that structural racism plagues our institutions and that diversity, equity and inclusion of people of ...