NPR visuals team blog→ Improving User Engagement Through Subtle Changes: Updating the Book Concierge

2014-12-12 The NPR year-end 2013 Book Concierge was a big hit. Instead of writing a bunch of lists, the books team solicited over 200 short reviews by critics and staff and put them into a single, beautiful website designed to make discovering great books fun. Re …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Nielsen: Milennials DO Listen to Radio

2014-12-11 A new Nielsen report, THE MEN, THE MYTHS, THE LEGENDS: WHY MILLENNIAL “DUDES” MIGHT BE MORE RECEPTIVE TO MARKETING THAN WE THOUGHT reports that:Millennial men are also heavy music listeners. Eighty-eight percent of all Millennial males in …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Book Concierge Update

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PRPD News for Programmers→ Thompson to Atlantic, Wilson to NY Times

2014-12-04 More news about NPR staff (current and former) this week.  Matt Thompson1) Matt Thompson will be leaving NPR to become Deputy Editor of The Atlantic. Matt was NPR's Director of Vertical Initiatives  (and Mischief).  Among his many accomp …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Total Radio Cume Up, TSL Down

2014-12-04 Nielsen's latest Total Audience Report, December 2014 shows that radio cume rose year to year for the 3rd quarter.  All Access reports:"...radio's overall number of 2+ users was up to 258,734,000 in Q3 2014 versus 257,420,000 in Q3 2013. TSL, howe …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Baldwin’s Podcast Returns

2014-12-01 Photo: WNYC/Mary Ellen Matthews"Here's The Thing", a weekly podcast series hosted by Alec Baldwin has returned.  The WNYC produced show posted its first in the latest series last week. According to All Access, the latest (3rd) season will be relea …›

RadioSutton→ Audience 98: Enduring Insights or Now Useless Information?

2014-11-21 Yesterday's keynote speech at the Public Radio Super Regional meeting was by Paul Jacobs. He's a radio researcher, radio web app developer, and the incoming Board Chair of Greater Public -- the trade association for fundraising, development, and market …›

RadioSutton→ Is Local News the New Classical Music?

2014-11-19 Digital News Guru Ken Doctor presented the opening session today at the public radio Super-Regional meeting in Las Vegas.  His premise.  Local news presents a great opportunity for public radio.His logic. There is great potential in the digit …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Three interesting code snippets from NPR’s Election Party

2014-11-17 NPR’s Election Party app has a lot of moving parts. It displays live election results from the Associated Press, ingests posts from our Tumblr liveblog, bakes out visualizations of our data, and presents all of this in a slideshow that, on election …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Hoban, Abramovitz to Fill PRPD Board Positions

2014-11-14 Matt AbramovitzJon HobanTwo PRPD board positions vacated by recent resignations were filled today by Matt Abramovitz, PD at WQXR, New York and Jon Hoban, Chief Content Officer at KJZZ, Phoenix.   They will assume their seats immediately and will s …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Greater Public Announces New Board Leadership

2014-11-14 Starting January 1, Paul Jacobs (Jacobs Media) will assume the chair of the Greater Public board of directors.  Connie Walker (WUNC) will be secretary and Norm Silverstein (WXXI) will assume the treasurer post. …›

J-Lab RSS Feed→ The Story Behind the Geezer Grants

2014-11-13 Posted To: Ideas & Innovation > Blogically Thinking Masters Mediapreneurs and the J-Lab were featured in three MediaShift articles: J-Lab’s Jan Schaffer Reflects Back on 20 Years of Journalism Innovation; J-Lab Launche …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Sample clocks for fundraising with the new Morning Edition

2014-11-11 Editor note:  This is a companion piece to an earlier post about fundraising with the new clocks. It may be shocking to realize that the new newsmagazine clocks for NPR start on Monday.   While many stations are busy planning their regul …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ AIR to Expand Localore Projects

2014-11-05 The Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) has received funding to expand three of its Localore projects - Curious City, iSeeChange and Sonic Trace.  The funding will allow producers of those projects (located at Chicago Public Media, KVNF, Pa …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Joyce Mac to CPB

2014-11-04 Continuing the changes at NPR, Joyce MacDonald has accepted the position of VP of Journalism at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  According to a note to the NPR Areps from Jarl Mohn:"In this role, Joyce will be able to amplify what she has …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Jody Evans Named Next PRPD Prez

2014-11-03 The Public Radio Program Directors Association (PRPD) has named Jody Evans its next President and Chief Executive Officer.  Evans is currently President and CEO of Western North Carolina Public Radio, Inc., which operates WCQS-FM in Asheville, NC. …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Car Talk’s Tom Magliozzi Dead at 77

2014-11-03 Co-host of the popular program Car Talk program has passed away at the age of 77. Tom Magliozzi had been battling Alzheimer's for some time.  Much more at NPR.org. …›

J-Lab RSS Feed→ Twenty Years on the Front Lines of Journalism Innovation

2014-10-31 Posted To: Ideas & Innovation > Blogically Thinking J-Lab director Jan Schaffer is wrapping up 20 years of raising money to give it away to fund news startups, innovations and pilot projects. She is pivoting J-Lab to do more writing, …›

J-Lab RSS Feed→ Journalism Education: It’s Time to Craft the Gateway Degree

2014-10-31 Posted To: Ideas & Innovation > Blogically Thinking J-Lab director Jan Schaffer is wrapping up 20 years of raising money to give it away to fund news startups, innovations and pilot projects. She is pivoting J-Lab to do more consultin …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Clock Tips From NPR

2014-10-29 In advance of the introduction of new broadcast clocks for NPR, here are some tips from NPR:1. Download and review the new clocks- Clocks are available for all NPR shows at NPRstations.org.    You'll also find more resources there, inclu …›

J-Lab RSS Feed→ Encore Media Entrepreneurs Invited to Apply for Four $12,000 Startup Grants

2014-10-29 Posted To: Press Releases Washington, D.C.  -  Encore media entrepreneurs, age 50+, are invited to apply for seed funding to help them launch news projects in 2015 as part of a new initiative launched today by J-Lab: The Institute …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Bannon Named PRPD Secretary

2014-10-28 Chris Bannon of WNYC, New York, has been elected Secretary of the PRPD Board of Directors replacing Gabe DiMaio, who has accepted a position outside of public media.  As Secretary, Bannon will now be part of the Executive Committee of the organiza …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Gomeshi and CBC Split

2014-10-26 The CBC has fired Jian Gomeshi, host of Q.  In an announcement today, the CBC said in an online statement"The CBC is saddened to announce its relationship with Jian Ghomeshi has come to an end, This decision was not made without serious deliberati …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Apply NOW for a spring internship with NPR Visuals

2014-10-26 Hey! Are you a student? Do you design? Develop? Love the web? …or… Do you make pictures? Want to learn to be a great photo editor? If so, we’d very much like to hear from you. You’ll spend the spring working on the visual …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Adobe & Nielsen to Launch Digital Content Ratings

2014-10-23 In a new partnership, Adobe and Nielsen have announced plans for a Digital Content Ratings system.  While initially focused on TV and online video, the announcement states that it will include all kinds of digital content, including audio.In an ar …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Working on fundraising breaks and the new clocks? Greater Public’s Jay Clayton has some tips.

2014-10-22 Today's blog post deals with on-air fundraising with the new clocks.  Thanks to Greater Public for making this post available to PRPD.  by Jay ClaytonOn November 17th NPR will begin using new clocks for Morning Edition, Weekend Edi …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ NPR offers details on November 17th clock changes

2014-10-21 Throughout October, PRPD's blog will be offering posts about the upcoming clock changes to the NPR newsmagazines.  Today's piece is a summary of a recent clock webinar by NPR.   This was initially published on NPR's ENGAGE …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Handling newscasts and breaks with the new clocks. MEGS trainer Tanya Ott offers some ideas.

2014-10-17 By Tanya Ott Now that we know what NPR is doing with its newscasts in the New World Order, we have to figure out how we handle ours.     Each station is different – different size, different resources, different news philosophy.&n …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Newscasts and the NPR clocks: MEGS trainer Tanya Ott gets the scoop

2014-10-15 PRPD continues its series of blog posts about the new clocks for Morning Edition and All Things Considered.  In this edition, Tanya Ott talks offers the first of two posts about newscasts.   by Tanya Ott NPR’s new newsmagazine clocks will …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ MEGS Trainer Scott Williams Offers Tips on the New Clocks

2014-10-14                                      Consider These Tips as you Prepare …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Knight Names VP Journalism

2014-10-08 Award winning NY Times journalist Jennifer Preston will be joining the Knight Foundation at VP of Journalism.  Preston has 30 years of experience in newsrooms and senior management and in 2009 was named the Times' first social media editor.   …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Leadership Reorg at NPR

2014-10-06 Mayer new NPR COOWilson out at NPRIn a message to their areps NPR announced a major reorganization of its top leadership.  Loren Mayer will now be NPR's Chief Operating Officer.  She was formerly Senior Vice President of Strategy.Leaving NPR …›

PRPD News for Programmers→ Webinars Scheduled Re: NPR Clock Changes

2014-09-29 With changes to the NPR news magazine clocks set to begin on November 17, PRPD and other organizations will be holding webinars to aid stations in planning the transition.  Tomorrow (9/30) PRNDI is offering the  webinar outlined belowNext wee …›

RadioSutton→ Observations on NPR One

2014-09-16 The slogan for the NPR One app is “Public Radio Made Personal. The purpose of the app is to help the user create a more customized listening experience.  Stories can be skipped. A recommendation engine personalizes the line-up of offer …›

RadioSutton→ The Increasing Importance of Station Branding in the Digital Space

2014-09-09 Well, the blog unintentionally ended up on hiatus for almost 10 months as I launched Emodus Research to study the emotional connections public radio listeners have with NPR and with their stations.That research is yielding some fascinating insight …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How to Setup the NPR App Template for You and Your News Org

2014-09-08 Just a few of the apps we have made with the app template. Photo by Emily Bogle. On the NPR Visuals Team, we make a point to open source and publish as much of the code we write as we can. That includes open sourcing code like the app template, which …›

NPR visuals team blog→ A reusable data processing workflow

2014-09-02 Correction (September 2, 2014 8:55pm EDT): We originally stated that the script should combine data from multiple American Community Survey population estimates. This methodology is not valid. This post and the accompanying source code have been update …›

J-Lab RSS Feed→ 2014 J-Lab/AEJMC Breakfast

2014-08-07 Posted To: Workshops & Training > Summits Event Date: Aug. 7, 2014 …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Work In Public! (Or, why you really should consider being NPR’s Knight-Mozilla fellow!)

2014-08-07 Visual journalism experts. David Sweeney/NPR. It’s joy to work in public media. Folks here do amazing journalism, and are awesome to work with. Why? The non-commercial relationship between us and our audience. We’re not selling them anything. …›