2026-01-16 An AI-powered database offers a model for extracting and structuring police records for public accessibility and accountability reporting. The post How AI-assisted workflows are unlocking California police records appeared first on Current. …›
2026-01-15 With the departures of board members who were targeted by the Trump administration and CPB’s shutdown, two pending cases were dismissed as moot. The post Judge dismisses pending CPB lawsuits as corporation dissolves appeared first on Current. …›
2026-01-14 The station in Athens, Ohio, had a deficit of almost $2.6 million in fiscal year 2024. The post WOUB cuts six positions, plans for less support from university appeared first on Current. …›
2026-01-14 Data also shows that throughout 2025, all giving channels experienced an increase in new donor acquisition, but none more than digital. The post December CDP Index: Giving driven by rescission shows signs of slowdown appeared first on Current. …›
2026-01-14 Contreras has led the station since 2019. The post Mark Contreras to retire as CEO of Connecticut Public appeared first on Current. …›
2026-01-13 The network has expanded its reach and launched new programming during Shapiro’s tenure. The post WNET Group CEO Neal Shapiro to retire this year, move to fundraising role appeared first on Current. …›
2026-01-13 The funds will help stations that have not historically distributed programs nationally. The post CPB grants $2.9M to American Public Television for distributing local programs nationwide appeared first on Current. …›
2026-01-12 Yang is leaving PBS News at the end of the month. The post Comings and goings: John Yang will leave PBS News, Scott resigns from PTMMG … appeared first on Current. …›
2026-01-09 Rather than working to maintain the status quo, this could be the moment for NPR to reimagine its mission by broadening its listener base beyond an elite few. The post Opinion: Lessons from NPR’s past efforts to reach minority listeners appeared fir …›
2026-01-09 Registration is now open for free events taking place in Apple’s London offices at Battersea Power Station on February 6. Sessions will be led by creatives from PRX, Goalhanger, Acast, and morePublic media organization PRX — bringing acclaimed …›
2026-01-08 The Official Companion podcast hosted by Dr. Alok Patel and Hunter Harris is made in partnership with PRX ProductionsPRX Productions — the award-winning audio creatives of public media organization PRX — is partnering with HBO Max to produc …›
2026-01-05 Show partners lauded by Rolling Stone, Vulture, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Esquire, The Economist, and moreIn 2025, PRX podcast partners and independent producers across Radiotopia brought listeners consequential reporting, evocative …›
2025-12-10 PRX and Wave Maker Media Present “The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special” from Acclaimed Producer Adriana CargillThe two-part documentary debuting January 7 tells a story of hope and adaptation from the darkest hours of one of California’s wo …›
2025-12-09 PRX Brings “Click Here” Hosted by Dina Temple-Raston to Public Radio, Exploring the Ways Technology is Changing Our WorldThe new weekly public radio program is available to stations nationwide beginning January 7Pulitzer-winning public media orga …›
2025-12-09 PRX to Distribute WABE’s Public Health Program “Health Wanted” to Public Radio Stations Nationwide Beginning in January 2026The weekly public radio show hosted by Laurel Bristow is a collaboration with Emory University’s Rollins School of Publ …›
2025-12-05 The all-day event on February 6 will take place in Apple’s London offices at Battersea Power Station, featuring free workshops and learning sessions for podcastersPublic media organization PRX — bringing acclaimed podcasts and radio to millions …›
2025-11-12 PRX’s 2025 Annual Report highlightsBelow is a reflection from PRX CEO Kerri Hoffman as part of PRX’s 2025 Annual Report:PRX has been a driving force of innovation in public media for more than 20 years. We’ve built digital-first audio infrastruc …›
2025-11-12 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Announces “Music Makes Us” Podcast in Partnership with Talkhouse & Radiotopia with Season One Hosted by Kathleen HannaEpisode 1 debuts November 18. Guests include Amy Taylor, Chaka Khan, Hayley Williams, Laufey, Na …›
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 …›
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 …›