2025-10-15 Growth in revenue and new donors is the strongest since any time in the last five years. The post September CDP Index: Federal defunding continues to drive massive giving spikes appeared first on Current. …›
2025-10-14 “Serving WJCT Public Media through this period of growth has been a tremendous honor,” McGowan said. The post David McGowan to retire as CEO of WJCT Public Media appeared first on Current. …›
2025-10-14 The new podcast hosted by Patrick Redford takes a critical look at sports and culture by exploring how and why people break the rulesDefector Media and Radiotopia from PRX have launched a new podcast, Only If You Get Caught. Hosted by Patrick Redford …›
2025-10-13 WPSU had faced a wind-down in operations after a Penn State board committee rejected a proposed deal last month. The post Penn State approves sale of WPSU to WHYY appeared first on Current. …›
2025-10-13 The American Coalition for Public Radio launched its goACPR.org campaign in May with messaging more closely tied to public radio. The post APTS affiliate will now be sole manager of Protect My Public Media appeared first on Current. …›
2025-10-10 NPR’s filing against CPB is a critical step in the fight for stations' protections of freedom of speech and association. The post Opinion: Why NPR’s dispute with CPB really is about the First Amendment appeared first on Current. …›
2025-10-10 A new CDP analysis finds that Millennials are on the rise and on the move. The post New donor surge brings generational shift to pubmedia fundraising appeared first on Current. …›
2025-10-09 Catherine Robb, a media attorney and counsel for Haynes and Boone, LLP, was named chair of the PBS board of directors. The post Comings and goings: PBS board elects chair, NPR podcast exec leaves for Apple … appeared first on Current. …›
2025-10-09 The creator of How Are We Today? drew on his own struggles to address stigmas around discussing mental health conditions. The post How a new public TV sitcom is helping viewers talk about mental health appeared first on Current. …›
2025-10-08 The loss of CPB funding has prompted radio programmers to reassess the value of every show. The post Cost savings become ‘primary concern’ in station scheduling decisions appeared first on Current. …›
2025-10-06 USG Audio, Novel, and PRX Present “Mission K-Pop,” A New Podcast Series Following One Woman’s Journey for K-Pop StardomThe series hosted by global journalist Haeryun Kang debuts October 13USG Audio, Novel, and public media organization PRX toda …›
2025-10-06 “How God Works” from David DeSteno and PRX Presents A New Season of the Podcast Exploring the Science Behind SpiritualityEpisodes spanning areas such as friendship, wisdom, and wellness will feature Vox’s “Future Perfect” co-host Sigal Samuel …›
2025-10-02 World Within and PRX Introduce “How to Change the World,” A New Podcast Exploring How to Turn Bold Ideas into ImpactHost and social entrepreneur Rostam Zafari speaks with builders, artists, organizers, and leaders to provide field notes for a more …›
2025-10-01 “Song Exploder” has featured an extraordinary range of artists, including Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, Billie Eilish, Green Day, Lizzo, Shania Twain, The Roots, and Phoebe BridgersSong Exploder, the award-winning podcast from host and creato …›
2025-10-01 PRX services also include distribution and technology, production, content development, and promotionPublic media organization PRX — one of today’s leading public radio program distributors and podcast publishers — today announced the str …›
2025-09-22 New releases include “The Loop” from “Ear Hustle,” “Gear” from “Articles of Interest,” “Only If You Get Caught” from Defector Media, “Woodard and Welles: The Story of the Blinded Soldier” from “Radio Diaries,” and moreRadio …›
2025-09-18 PRX Announces Dovetail Spots, A New Feature of PRX’s Dovetail Podcast Publishing Platform Enabling Trades of Promotional Messages Among ShowsDovetail from PRX is built and operated by the nonprofit public media organizationNonprofit public media org …›
2025-09-17 UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and PRX Present A New Season of the “Altered States” Podcast Hosted by Arielle Duhaime-RossNew episodes explore the world of psychedelics at the intersection of spiritual experience and scientific …›
2025-09-04 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Announces New Podcast in a First-Of-Its-Kind Partnership with Talkhouse and Radiotopia from PRX Hosted by Kathleen HannaHanna will bring her vast experience in the music industry and disarming sense of humor to conversatio …›
2024-07-16 I think this happens to reporters a lot. They see someone who looks interesting. They chat with them, and they think, “Hunh, maybe there’s a story here.” It happened to David Weinberg. Back in 2016 or so, David was producing a series on South Los …›
2024-07-11 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. I recently read a thread in UKAN — a listserv for U.K. audio producers — about people considering leaving the audio industry. It was heartbreaking to read about so many …›
2024-07-02 One of my favorite past times is sending music to friends, usually a link to a song sent by text. Punk, dub, and experimental music to my friends Sven and Matthias. Avant-garde classical and electronic music to Carla… For my daughter, Gwen, I usually …›
2024-06-17 I picked up on something Ira Glass said in the last episode of Sound School that I want to highlight here. Rather than structuring a story as a collection of arguments and ideas, structure it as a narrative, a sequence of events. This happened, then th …›
2024-06-06 Hello! Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. This month there’s a few brilliant opportunities for makers who are underrepresented in different ways — those in the Global Majority, those working in a lan …›
2024-06-04 I started counting the number of valuable tips Ira Glass of This American Life offers on this episode of Sound School and I gave up. There were too many. Tips on writing, reporting, structure, scoring… In fact, I think this rare recording I’m featu …›
2024-05-21 I remember thinking: Uh, oh. We hired the wrong translator. I was in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro to be exact, reporting a story on pretrial detention — a netherworld between arrest and arraignment. In Rio and many places around the world, once someone …›
2024-05-07 (I recommend you listen to this episode before reading this post or listening to the audio excerpt below. All of it will make much more sense.) Back in the aughts, one of my students was producing a profile of a singer songwriter. During editorial meet …›
2024-05-02 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. In some personal news, I’m headed to New York for the first two weeks of June to host an In The Dark event at the Tribeca festival — I would love to meet some audio mak …›
2024-04-23 Right this minute, I’m riding an Amtrak train, heading home after visiting my daughter at college. It’s supposed to be a day off. No work. I thought I’d read a book (In case you’re wondering, I packed two: Mama’s Last Hug and How the Garcia G …›
2024-04-16 Note from Sarah Geis: This manifesto is made up of excerpts of interviews I did with fellow members of the core production team: Yohance Lacour, Bill Healy, Erisa Apantaku and Dana Brozost-Kelleher. But the podcast could not have been made without the …›
2024-04-09 During the first couple of minutes of this episode, I take NPR to task for the preponderance of two-ways on the network’s news programs. In particular, my distaste for host interviews with reporters where everything sounds so unsurprising. This is es …›
2024-04-04 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. You might know me as an organiser of resources, but I’m an audio maker too! Last month I wrote an article for Transom, The Many Lives of “Dead Ends”, about a piece I …›
2024-04-02 Looking for a Signal We’ve spent the last five years using our perspective as scientists and funders not only to figure out why exceptional independent creators make the things they make, but to create an ecosystem that amplifies their signal. …›
2024-03-26 Dale Lumsden taught me how to cut tape — as in reel-to-reel tape. I call his teaching approach “The Lumsden Method.” The way Dale did it was this: He straightened himself up at the mic. Got his copy ready. Cleared his throat. Hit record. And …›
2024-03-19 Searching for Story A big “thing” happened early on in my life: my Mum died. When I was three years old she fell off of a cliff while on a work trip in Spain. Her death was ruled an accident, and I grew up knowing that to be true, but as a teenager …›
2024-03-12 We’re revisiting a valuable episode recorded in 2016 for this installment of The Sound School Podcast. Despite my severe hesitation around recording in stereo (I practically break out in hives just thinking about it), I put together the following FAQ …›
2024-03-07 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. It’s International Women’s Day tomorrow and this month there’s some suitably great opportunities for women in audio. Within events there’s the International Women …›
2024-02-27 A journalist friend of mine once joked, “This is how journalists count: One. Two. Trend.” Just in case it doesn’t make sense, I’ll explain. Reporters often seek to report stories on trends. If a bunch of houses go up for sale in a neighborhood, …›
2024-02-15 Hello! Welcome (back) to All Hear, the Everything List for Audio Opportunities. This is my first All Hear as a freelancer… I haven’t been fully freelance since I left university (when it was just a thinly veiled disguise for “unemployed …›
2024-02-13 I remember talking to Matej Praprotnik, the Assistant Director of Radio at Radio Slovenia, and practically demanding that he “Get Maja out of the studio!” In another meeting, this time with Mirko Stular, the Director of Radio, I made the same state …›