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Radio Ambulante Journalist Annie Correal on Radio Ambulante, the soon-to-be launched, and first-ever, storytelling podcast in Spanish. transom.org/?p=19897 Local Radio With a Sense of Place WLRN’s Dan Grech on why he thinks local radio can be
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MacNeil/Lehrer Productions President Simon Marks is leaving his post at the end of this month, he told Current in an email today (Sept. 6). "I've realized over the past year that I greatly miss my daily dose of newsroom adrenalin," he said. Marks is re
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At first blush, state legal codes seem pretty simple. You've got titles, which are composed of chapters, which in turn comprise sections -- or something very much like that. It's a straightforward hierarchy, and you might not think that there's a lot o
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Journalist Annie Correal on Radio Ambulante, the soon-to-be launched, and first ever, storytelling podcast in Spanish.
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NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday was originally conceived as the Sunday newspaper, but new host Audie Cornish wants it to be more like Sunday brunch, she tells Ad Week. "The kind of brunch I go to usually involves some alcohol, usually involves people tell
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Former Morning Edition host Bob Edwards' biography will be available in print Friday, but is available for free as an ebook online sites for free until then.The free e-book is available through major electronics retailers.Publisher University of Kentuc
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We are very excited to be part of DEInteractive Online Fundraising Cooperative starting this fall.
The cooperative is a joint venture between DEI, leading online fundraising consulting firm Donor Digital and NPRDigital Services, partnering with a selec
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Radio consultant Mark Ramsey posted on Facebook today his comments about radio remaining relevant."Maintaining 'relevance' requires seeing the consumer’s world as it is, not as we wish it to be. It requires recognizing that radio is not in the distri
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by Mike Smith, Station Products & Innovation
Last week on the SPI Files, we got the inside scoop on Montana West, Integrated Media Producer at NHPTV. This week, we're heading out to "Steel City" to speak with Jennifer Stancil, Executive Director o
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The
Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, jointly sponsored by WBUR and Boston University,
honors a young public radio journalist who has produced a news piece within the
past year of particular significance to the listening public. The work must
have be
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Longtime PRPD member Susan Johnson (and former board member) asked us to post the following on her behalf:
SIGNING OFF
Some of you already know my news: I'm running off
with a classical piano-playing oncologist. How's that for coincidence?
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I’ve finished my work with the amazing Knight-Mozilla Ideas Challenge and have been thinking about how things went. While there was an amazing amount of ideas around innovation, some of the advice that I took to heart late in the program was not aim
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The prestigious James MacTaggart lecture is a fixture at the annual MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. I’ve never attended one, but they’re always interesting and I look forward to catching up when they’re posted. This y
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The Daystar religious network is purchasing KDYW, the former PBS affiliate KWBU in Waco, Texas, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission seeking approval for the deal. Licensee Baylor University is getting $250,000 for the stati
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Beer advertising is certainly a staple of any radio station aiming at a mostly male demographic, and beer companies sponsor many concerts and radio events. But how many stations actually have their own beer?
I was sitting in a nice Chicago tavern that
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This has been a busy week in the world of video streaming services. The new higher rate for Netflix streaming and DVDs just went into effect, just as Starz broke off negotiations with Netflix (meaning, perhaps, less selection of movies on the service).
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The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism; and the CU
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This post was authored by Matthew Hockenberry, who co-created Sourcemap as a visiting scientist with the MIT Center for Civic Media.
Knowing where things come from is a fundamental part of humanity. Things are very different when they come from diff
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by Scott Vanderbilt
The Case For Formal Usability Testing Con
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CPB is compiling an online list of 9/11-related pubcasting programming airing during the next several weeks. Spokesperson Nicole Mezlo told Current that the list is being updated as information comes in from stations and organizations around the countr
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by Marla Krueger, Station Products & Innovation
Welcome to the Weekly PBS Interactive Station Products & Innovation Debrief, designed to give PBS stations a rundown of product updates and opportunities announced this week on our blog.
We hope
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WVPT in Harrisonburg, Va., is hoping an online talent contest helps them raise money to restore state cuts to their budget, reports the Augusta Free Press in Waynesboro, Va. Viewers can post videos showcasing their unique abilities at TALENT WAR$ @wvpt
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Last week, a Missouri judge issued a preliminary injunction against the state, suspending part of a law that would have made it illegal for teachers and students to connect via social networks.
Section 162.069.4 of the Amy Hestir Student Protection A
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Nominations Open for CMJ's College Radio Awards
CMJ, the industry publication for college radio, has been doing college radio awards for a number of years now. They just opened up the nomination period for the 2011 College Radio Awards and anyone w
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DOJ blocks AT&T/T-Mobile merger
Lawsuit cites anti-competitive movements
Facebook to launch music platform
Partners will include Spotify, MOG and Rdio
Hulu makes international debut
Starts video service in Japan
Adult use of social media rises
Onl
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BANGKOK -- As a high profile case against a prominent media campaigner returns to court in Bangkok, it has emerged that the long arm of Thailand's lèse-majesté law has reached into California.
On Thursday Chiranuch Premchaiporn of the Thai current
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BANGKOK -- As a high profile case against a prominent media campaigner returns to court in Bangkok, it has emerged that the long arm of Thailand's lèse-majesté law has reached into California.
On Thursday Chiranuch Premchaiporn of the Thai current
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On September 22, AIR will join with CPB at the PRPD Programming Conference to unveil AIR's new initiative—designed to turbocharge invention in multiplatform journalism by producers, while expanding public radio and TV station's
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Gregg McVicar
UnderCurrents—one of the best syndicated public radio music shows around, has hit a milestone. “After six years of subverting formatting conventions across the USA, we’ve somehow reached 100 stations!” the show&
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Gregg McVicar
UnderCurrents—one of the best syndicated public radio music shows around, has hit a milestone. “After six years of subverting formatting conventions across the USA, we’ve somehow reached 100 stations!” the show&
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