2017-02-22 Every April, amidst glow and glimmer of the City of Lights, there is a special gathering unlike any other in public media. A special group of professionals—time-tested and supremely-dedicated—come together for a learning event beyond compare in our …›
2017-02-15 Amanda J. Hoehn | Assistant Director | PBS Development ServiceCLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LATEST DEVDAY AGENDA - All workshops now posted!The PBS development community is invited to gather at the Annual Meeting in San Diego for a new learning and …›
2017-02-14 Photo by Rachael Ketterer This is not your standard photo internship! This internship is an opportunity to learn more about the world of photo editing. Our goal isn’t to make you into a photo editor; we view this internship as a chance for you to u …›
2017-02-14 Map by Visuals Team intern Brittany Mayes Are you data-curious, internet savvy, and interested in journalism? Do you draw, design, or write code? We are looking for you. We’ve had journalists who are learning to code, programmers who are learning a …›
2017-02-08 by Pam Parker | Director of Communications and Social Impact | CPT12If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time in front of your computer screen busily creating lists and ticking off the items. Sure I seek input from outside my day-to-day work l …›
2017-02-08 Radiotopia turns three this month, and to celebrate we launched a fancy new website! We also commissioned our first-ever original ad music from DJ, producer and musician JD Samson, who leads the band MEN and is one-third of the electronic-punk-feminis …›
2017-01-31 Join PBS Digital for two encore performances of the most popular sessions from TechCon16. On Thursday, February 16th Dan Haggerty will take us through his Joy of Analytics session, sharing out insights from the PBS audience and showing you step-by-step …›
2017-01-27 Join Black Culture Connection (BCC) for 2017 Black History Month celebrations! This year, the BCC is turning its lens onto audiences with the return of #MyBlackHistory a social media campaign that asks audiences to share how Black History & Culture …›
2017-01-26 Five Things is an ongoing live series at the PRX Podcast Garage hosted by Julie Shapiro (EP, Radiotopia). The series invites some of today’s most talented and successful producers, artists, writers and thinkers to share five things —audio, visuals …›
2017-01-25 For the past three years YoProWo [n: Yo-Pro-Woah], the in-person young professional development event, has been held prior to Annual Meeting. YoProWo events are geared towards helping young professionals network and grow their working knowledge of the …›
2017-01-24 As part of the new PBS Digital Core Data Model project, the new Media Manager will replace the current Merlin and COVE admin that stations and national producers use every day to upload and update their video content.Want to learn a little more? C …›
2017-01-23 By Larry Rohrer | Director of Content | South Dakota Public Broadcasting | DMACIf you have been around the system long enough, you can recall when annual meetings were only accessible in person, you realize now that iMA was not ahead of its time, and y …›
2017-01-18 Mercy Street returns this Sunday, January 22, and a wide variety of assets and opportunities exist for digital to support the second season of this exciting drama. Promotional Assets A full suite of promotional assets is available now to help yo …›
2017-01-18 Viva Las Vegas!Its that time of year again when public media descends upon Las Vegas to get our Tech on. TechCon 2017 registration is now open. This year's digital track will focus on multi-platform strategy and tactics, with the sessions covering a va …›
2017-01-13 It’s a new year, and with it comes the urge to set new goals and objectives, buoyed by the promise of new possibilities.In the spirit of harnessing those ambitions, PBS Digital is excited to announce a new professional development opportunity for sta …›
2017-01-04 by Cheraine Stanford | Senior Producer/Director | WPSUWhat do you get when you gather a group of smart, thoughtful, people from public media stations around the country in a room to talk about the future of digital media?The answer is a lot of inn …›
2016-12-29 2016 was a banner year for Radiotopia. We performed our first live show, ran an hugely successful Podquest competition (look for Ear Hustle this summer!), added three new podcasts, and much more. We are so grateful to our fans for the love and support …›
2016-12-22 To take advantage of the new season of Sherlock on Masterpiece, streaming availability in COVE will be available directly after the East Coast broadcast. This opportunity will allow stations to promote broadcast tune-in or streaming online starting at …›
2016-12-21 PRX is excited to announce the first cohort of Project Catapult, an innovative podcast training project for public media stations, made possible by a $1 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The project initially intended …›
2016-12-16 All Songs Considered asks listeners for their favorite albums of 2016 At the beginning of December 2016, All Songs Considered followed a nice tradition and asked listeners for their favorite albums of 2016. Users could enter up to five different album …›
2016-12-15 This month, I’m featuring stories about dreams: the tale of a woman who dreams of a bigger apartment, the consequences of a jail system that puts dreams on hold, and a mother-daughter team helping each other to fulfill lifelong ambitions. Time to “ …›
2016-12-12 Season 2 of Mercy Street premieres January 22 and to help you with promotion, below is an overview of some of the digital support you’ll see in the coming weeks:WebsiteContinuing to build on the dynamic Mercy Street website from last season, the …›
2016-12-02 We recently wrapped up our Radiotopia 2016 fall fundraiser, and were blown away by the love and support from our fans, both old and new. With every drive, we gain new and important insights into the podcast fundraising universe and our dedicated fanbas …›
2016-10-12 Photo by Rachael Ketterer This is not your standard photo internship! This internship is an opportunity to learn more about the world of photo editing. Our goal isn’t to make you into a photo editor; we view this internship as a chance for you to u …›
2016-10-12 Map by Visuals Team intern Brittany Mayes Are you data-curious, internet savvy, and interested in journalism? Do you draw, design, or write code? We are looking for you. We’ve had journalists who are learning to code, programmers who are learning a …›
2016-08-30 The NPR Visuals Team happy to announce the release of Pym.js v1.0.0. We want to share with all of you the goals that we hope to achieve with it and the design process that led us to the new release. But wait, what is Pym.js for? Pym.js embeds and res …›
2016-05-26 …we haven’t updated it in a while. We feel bad about that. It’s because we’ve been focusing on building oodles of storytelling resources over at NPR’s Editorial Training website.So this Tumblr is on vacation. But there’s still lots of …›
2016-01-12 Does anything HAPPEN in your story?In public radio, we cover a lot of policy issues affecting LOTS of people. These are hard stories to tell. We gather hours of tape with policymakers and people affected by policies – but it’s challenging to turn t …›
2015-12-07 What do you do after finishing a bunch of interviews in the field? You double check your recorder… Was I actually rolling? Phew!… You record a bunch more ambience… The producers will always ask me for more… What else?NPR’ …›
2015-11-23 The man in this photo is Ilya Marritz. He is NOT a football player. He’s the host of WNYC’s podcast “The Season,” which ends its season this week. Ilya has been narrating, in serialized form, the story of the underdog Columbia football team.* …›
2015-11-02 Today we’re very excited to unveil a new site – training.npr.org.We created it for the many journalists working in public media. Sometimes it can feel impossible to find the time and space to hone your storytelling techniques, learn something n …›
2015-10-30 NPR’s social media intern Vesta Partovi has taken our Snapchat/Periscope game to a new level with this custom iPhone rig (dubbed “Wombat”). She put it together with the help of two NPR engineers and photographer John Poole. She writes: The idea …›
2015-10-21 Audio people! Don’t forget to tell stories about soundSometimes, it’s helpful to offer reminders of the obvious: Radio/audio is a really good medium for stories about sound.This segment from All Things Considered last week, especially its intro*, i …›
2015-09-30 When people visit NPR.org stories that include audio, few typically click “play” – only about 13 percent. But this piece by NPR’s Eyder Peralta? It got hundreds of thousands of views and about 62 percent of them resulted in a “play.” …›
2015-09-24 Thanks to an invitation from Storybench.org to write about NPR stories that “breathe life into a neighborhood scene,” I’ve been thinking about what distinguishes audio scenes that are, well … meh … from those that really sing.I cam …›
2015-09-10 Public radio people told a story exclusively on Snapchat … and lived to tell the tale!A couple of weeks ago, Alison MacAdam and I spent a day showing a new employee how a story comes together at NPR, from start to finish. It’s an extensive process …›
2015-09-04 When you have a story that’s centered around a huge and surprising number, when do you reveal it?This piece by NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce illustrates how the answer could be different for audio and digital. It’s about researchers who discovere …›
2015-08-31 On Friday, August 28, two stories on Morning Edition achieved the same thing: They painted effective scenes of single, emblematic streets. The first street is in LA - in this diminutive piece by NPR’s Nathan Rott about Californians limiting their …›
2015-08-20 Here’s a handy trick from NPR’s Don Gonyea, who has endured more campaign airplanes, Iowa State Fairs, and overstuffed spin rooms than almost anyone. Don is nearly always on a tight deadline, and it turns out he sketches pictures like the doodle b …›
2015-08-18 You’ve probably seen the photos: shockingly orange water cascading through Colorado’s Animas River, the contamination the result of an accident by the Environmental Protection Agency at a nearby mine. KUNC reporter Stephanie Paige Ogburn has been …›