2026-09-23 Meghan Biggs will be VP of finance and accounting for WETA. The post Comings and goings: WETA hires finance VP, AmDoc promotes staff … appeared first on Current. …›
2026-09-22 Powell returns to the station after previously serving as director of news content. The post Matt Shafer Powell named WUOT director appeared first on Current. …›
2026-09-22 The new series starring comedian, cartoonist and writer Mo Welch was pitched as “Hot Ones meets Bob Ross.” The post PBS Digital Studios, PBS SoCal team for ‘The Drawing Room’ appeared first on Current. …›
2026-09-21 Veronica Toney joined Chicago Public Media as managing editor of community and platforms. The post Comings and goings: Chicago Public Media appoints managing editor, Michigan Public adds news strategy editor … appeared first on Current. …›
2026-09-18 Cygnal, a Virginia-based company that describes itself as “center-right,” will poll Alabamians on their views about the state network and its programming. The post Alabama Public Television board chooses political polling firm for survey research a …›
2026-09-18 The organizations, which collectively lost almost $4 million last year due to the rescission of federal funding, said combining forces will increase their chances of long-term stability. The post Ohio stations PBS Western Reserve, Ideastream Public Med …›
2026-09-16 Panno began managing the station on a temporary basis in December. The post Kellsy Panno leads KAZU as station director appeared first on Current. …›
2026-09-16 PRX and Barometer Partner to Ensure Brand Safety and Suitability Across Leading Public Media Organization’s Portfolio of Acclaimed Podcasts“We’re proud to serve as a trusted destination for listeners seeking high quality content and for advertise …›
2026-09-15 The $1 million donation to the Public Media Bridge Fund is restricted to grants for NPR member stations, the network announced Tuesday. The post NPR donates $1 million to support member station sustainability appeared first on Current. …›
2026-09-15 Blair Braverman’s “What To Carry, What to Burn” Joins Radiotopia from PRX, the Peabody-Nominated Podcast Network for Extraordinary Indie Creators“A dream show [and] a must-hear for anyone who values empathetic, captivating storytelling”Radio …›
2026-09-14 Hoffman reflects on entering a new chapter as Jason Saldanha is named the organization’s next CEOPRX has announced Jason Saldanha will succeed Kerri Hoffman as President and CEO. Below is a reflection from Hoffman:After more than twenty years at PR …›
2026-09-14 “We’re committed to difference-making content, technology innovation to grow our service, and shared purpose with extraordinary partners”Kerri Hoffman and Jason SaldanhaLeading public media organization PRX today announced its COO, Jason Saldanh …›
2026-09-01 Mark Henry Phillips and Radiotopia from PRX Announce “Light Box,” a New Podcast Revealing What AI is Doing to MusicDebuting September 15Acclaimed audio producer Mark Henry Phillips and the Peabody-finalist independent podcast network Radiotopia fr …›
2026-08-18 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Radiotopia, and Talkhouse Announce A New Season of “Music Makes Us” Hosted by Kathleen Hanna And Featuring Today’s Revolutionary MusiciansEpisodes will feature Belinda Carlisle and Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s, Shei …›
2026-08-06 PRX Announces“Oh God Now What” hosted by Niala Boodhoo, A New Podcast Offering Spiritual Wisdom on the NewsPulitzer-winning public media organization PRX today announced Oh God Now What, a new podcast hosted by acclaimed journalist Niala Boodhoo a …›
2026-07-21 The renowned social sciences program hosted by Shankar Vedantam will be distributed by PRX nationwide on public radioThe renowned social sciences program Hidden Brain today announced a new public radio partnership with Peabody Award-winning public med …›
2026-07-02 “Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising” and host Mila AtmosFuture Hindsight — the award-winning weekly podcast of civic action hosted by Mila Atmos — will debut Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising, a new series tracing the era-defining Occupy Wall …›
2026-07-01 Series and specials from PRX and Radiotopia with the Smithsonian, More Perfect, the National Constitution Center, and moreAs the U.S. marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, PRX show partners continue to bring listeners perspectives and …›
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 …›
2024-01-30 One of the strangest things I’ve ever seen in a radio studio — maybe the strangest thing I’ve seen — happened during a class on DJing I was teaching at KUNV, a community radio station in Las Vegas. A student sat down in front of the mix …›