2026-05-20 Creator Ben Bradford says the show can interrogate the “growing feeling across society that things are falling apart and are less good than they used to be.” The post A new NPR podcast dares to ask ‘Are We Doomed?’ appeared first on Current. …›
2026-05-20 “Scene on Radio” Presents “The News,” A New Podcast Series Tackling Today’s Information Crisis Launching May 27Co-Hosted by John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika, the series is a 2026 Tribeca Festival Official Selection for Audio Storytelling. …›
2026-05-19 The reduction affected the station's marketing, engineering and television production departments. The post Indiana Public Media cuts staff appeared first on Current. …›
2026-05-19 Dr. Vivek Murthy Announces “Staying Human” Podcast Inviting Listeners to Explore What It Means to Be Human in an Age of Rapid Change19th and 21st U.S. Surgeon General’s Podcast Launches May 26Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy today annou …›
2026-05-18 CEO Katherine Maher also announced a newsroom reorganization and leadership changes. The post NPR turns to buyout program amid revenue decline appeared first on Current. …›
2026-05-18 Independent producer Karen Michel is channeling her longtime interest into a budding podcast, Ganja Granny. The post Ex-NPR colleagues team up on podcast about cannabis and aging appeared first on Current. …›
2026-05-15 Though all other Index metrics continued to see growth in the first quarter of 2026, new donors for radio declined by almost 6% from the same period last year. The post April CDP Index: Radio experiences first decline in new donors since rescission app …›
2026-05-15 Brendan Kinney is leaving Vermont Public to lead the nonprofit that publishes VTDigger. The post Comings and goings: COOs at Vermont Public, KUOW announce departures appeared first on Current. …›
2026-05-15 Failing to extend the station’s expiration date means it will have to begin closing July 1. It will have a year to wind down operations. The post Veto override to save OETA fails in Oklahoma Senate appeared first on Current. …›
2026-05-14 Barrington previously worked in editorial leadership roles for public media organizations in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Virginia. The post Helen Barrington appointed leader of North State Public Radio appeared first on Current. …›
2026-05-13 Under the agreement, Tom Hudson will lead the South Florida Public Media Group as interim CEO. The post Miami school board and WLRN management group settle lawsuit appeared first on Current. …›
2026-05-12 On the ground floor of the Donohue Building on the Holyoke Community College campus sits college radio station WCCH 103.5 FM in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Blessed with several distinct spaces, the station has a cheerful lobby, a unique standalone …›
2026-05-07 ProPublica Launches Flagship Podcast “Paper Trail” Hosted by Jessica Lussenhop and Brought to Listeners with PRXProPublica today announced the launch of Paper Trail, a flagship podcast hosted by investigative journalist Jessica Lussenhop. With new …›
2026-05-06 PRX Podcast Partners Named 2026 James Beard Award Nominees“Exceptional storytellers who are shaping how we understand the world through food”The James Beard Foundation announced nominees in the 2026 James Beard Awards, including the James Beard M …›
2026-04-21 “It’s a place where the defining voices of the medium come to create”Celebrating its 25th year, the Tribeca Festival announced its 2026 podcast lineup, featuring multiple PRX and Radiotopia show partners.The festival takes place from June 3–14 …›
2026-04-07 The podcast and public radio series reflect “work that informs, challenges, and drives meaningful change”The Peabody Awards announced the nominees in their 86th annual honors, celebrating stories that defend the public interest, encourage empathy, …›
2026-04-06 A new PRX podcast explores why Black mothers in the U.S face higher maternal mortality rates and how midwives and community-based care are part of the solutionBlack women in the United States continue to face alarmingly high maternal mortality rates, …›
2026-04-01 More than a dozen nominees span arts, culture, science, news, and documentaryThe International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) announced the nominees for the 30th Annual Webby Awards. Established in 1996, the awards celebrate digital exc …›
2026-03-31 More Perfect and PRX Present “In Pursuit with Colleen Shogan,” A New Civic Podcast for America’s 250thThe podcast series featuring acclaimed writers, historians, and thinkers will explore lessons of the past to write the nation’s futureThe bip …›
2026-03-17 The awards were presented at SXSW in Austin, TexasiHeartMedia announced honorees in the 2026 iHeartPodcast Awards, which took place on March 16 live at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder was presented with the Innovator Award, a …›
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 …›