Hacks/Hackers→ See you at NICAR

2017-02-17 Hello, hacks and hackers! We made it through Valentine’s Day (at least, those of us who live in countries that celebrate it) and we’re now less than a month from the popular NICAR... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and join our c …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Dont Miss DevDay at PBS Annual Meeting!

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 …›

NPR visuals team blog→ What makes a great photo editing intern (Apply now for Summer 2017!)

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 …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Be our design/code/??? intern for summer 2017!

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 …›

Hacks/Hackers→ New Orleans becomes a hackathon hub

2017-02-10 Greetings, hacks and hackers! It was a packed week last week for Hacks/Hackers chapters, with Caracas launching its own two-day Data Party, Singapore building tools together and Philadelphia taking a... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and jo …›

Hacks/Hackers→ New Orleans kicks off hackathon series

2017-02-09 By Samantha Sunne New Orleans held its first hackathon this week, digging into dirty assessment data, partial wetlands maps, unanswered recycling questions and other problems just waiting to be... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and join our …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Notes from TechCon16

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 …›

PRX→ Introducing: Radiotopia Ad Music from JD Samson

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 …›

Hacks/Hackers→ #JournalismJobs on every continent

2017-02-02 Welcome to February, hacks and hackers. We had a packed global call on Wednesday where we first unveiled the new website (still in prototype form). What do you think? Also, we’ve got journalism... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and jo …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Webinars: Road to TechCon

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 …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Black History Month 2017

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 …›

PRX→ PRX Podcast Garage: Five Things with Jody Avirgan

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 …›

Hacks/Hackers→ Announcing MisinfoCon

2017-01-26 Welcome to another Friday, hacks and hackers! We’ve got a bigger announcement than usual this week: .@HacksHackers, @firstdraftnews and @niemanfdn present Misinfocon: A summit on misinformation... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and jo …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ YoPro Goes to TechCon!

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 …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Learn More With Our CDM/Media Manager Training Series

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 …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ TechCon: A Digital Marketplace for Exchanging Ideas and Learning

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 …›

Tow Center→ On the Design of Hyperlocal Communications

2017-01-23 At a time when the accuracy of news sources is in question, and politicians want to restrict access to information, hyperlocal communications have more potential than ever. You Are Here is a project that essentially consists of a Wifi signal that broad …›

Tow Center→ New Ideas for Automation in the Newsroom

2017-01-23   How can automation help reduce the cost of story discovery in a newsroom? As a Tow fellow in 2015, I had the opportunity to explore this question by building a tool, available online at campaign-finance.org, that automates some of the explorator …›

Hacks/Hackers→ Seven first events of 2017: Nairobi, Joburg, Singapore and more

2017-01-20 Happy Friday, hacks and hackers. After a winter hibernation (or summer nap, for those in the southern hemisphere), seven Hacks/Hackers chapters are holding their first events of 2017, including in... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and join …›

Tow Center→ Help Support and #FreeThePress in 2017

2017-01-20 In December 2016, the Committee to Protect Journalists counted 259 journalists imprisoned worldwide, more than at any time since the group began its annual imprisoned census in 1990. On January 25th and 26th, we hope you will join our effort to offer m …›

Tow Center→ Twitter and managing journalistic work: Between distraction and optimization

2017-01-20 Note: This is the fourth post in the Beyond 140 characters series, which investigates how, why, and under what circumstances political journalists engage with Twitter. This piece shares some of the project’s key findings. The previous post reflected …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Mercy Street Season 2 Digital Assets

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 …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ TechCon 2017 Registration is Now Open

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 …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ APPLY NOW: PBS Digital Launches the Digital Immersion Project, Kicking off at TechCon 2017

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 …›

Hacks/Hackers→ Dozens of Hacks/Hackers jobs open up in the first weeks of 2017

2017-01-13 It’s a new year, hacks and hackers, and newsrooms seem to be ushering in the new: more than two dozen job openings were posted since our last newsletter, ranging from Research Professor to... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and join ou …›

Hacks/Hackers→ Hacks/Hackers enters 2017

2017-01-06 Welcome to a new year, hacks and hackers! 2016 was a tumultuous one for many Hacks/Hackers groups around the world, and 2017 may or may not be more stable. Last week we featured NiemanLab’s... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and join o …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Innovative Ideas & Amazing Possibilities: The Digital Media Advisory Council

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 …›

PRX→ 2016 Press Picks: Best of Radiotopia

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 …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Sherlock Season 4: Tune in or Streaming Event

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 …›

PRX→ Announcing the Project Catapult Cohort!

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 …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How We Cleaned Up And Ranked Our Listeners’ Favorite Albums of 2016

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 …›

PRX→ PRX Remix Picks: Dreams Deceived, Deferred, Fulfilled

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 “ …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Mercy Street Season 2 Digital Content

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 …›

PRX→ Radiotopia Fall Fundraiser 2016: We Did it Again!

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 …›

NPR visuals team blog→ What makes a great photo editing intern (Apply now for Winter/spring 2017!)

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 …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Be our design/code/??? intern for winter/spring 2017!

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 …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Pym.js v1.0.0 release – what do you need to know

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 …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How we built a VR project using web technologies

2016-07-22 A screenshot of Standing At The Edge Of Geologic Time in virtual reality. Last Wednesday, the NPR Visuals Team published a virtual reality story about the geologic history of Rocky Mountain National Park. It was weird! Making a virtual reality projec …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Useful Scraping Techniques

2016-06-17 A recent NPR project that collects structured data about gun sale listings from Armslist.com demonstrates several of my favorite tricks for writing simple, fast scrapers with Python. The code for the Armslist scraper is available on Github. Can you s …›