PBS Ombudsman→ War of the Words

2013-10-31 Sometimes, when journalists talk among themselves about stories they have read, the phrase "burying the lead" comes into the discussion. What is meant by that is a story that has important information way down inside the text, rather than at... …›

PBS Ombudsman→ Muhammad on PBS: Was It Good for the Jews?

2013-10-29 The question in the headline on this column is not meant to be frivolous. For Jews and their families in America in the 1930s, '40s and '50s — and even to some extent today — events from time to time... …›

PBS Ombudsman→ The Mailbag: Some Viewers Want to Give PBS a ‘Pop’

2013-10-23 The ombudsman's mailbox continues to receive a modest but steady stream of complaints from viewers about those small but obvious promotional blurbs that "pop up" on your TV screen every once in a while during a favorite program to remind... …›

RadioSutton→ Transition for NPR Highlights Major Industry Issues – Part 2: The NPR-Member Station Relationship

2013-10-04 A recent article at Current.org highlighted some of the financial and membership issues facing NPR as it looks for its next leader.  Our last post considered the financial side.  This post considers the membership issues.Curren …›

RadioSutton→ Transition for NPR Highlights Major Industry Issues – Part 1: Financial

2013-10-03 Current.org has a good read on some of the financial and membership issues facing NPR as it looks for its next leader.  On the financial side, Current reports that NPR had its best fundraising year ever in 2013, yet ended the year with a …›

RadioSutton→ Keep Hitting Listeners Right Between the Ears

2013-10-01 Below is the original text from John Sutton’s acceptance speech after receiving the Don Otto Award from Audience Research Analysis and the Public Radio Program Directors association.  You can hear the speech here.  Just like live radio, wha …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Complex But Not Dynamic: Using A Static Site To Crowdsource Playgrounds

2013-09-13 This post is cross-posted with our friends at Source. We usually build relatively simple sites with our app template. Our accessible playgrounds project needed to be more complex. We needed to deal with moderated, user-generated data. But we didn&rs …›

RadioSutton→ Introducing Emodus Research and Sutton & Lee

2013-09-05 A couple of business announcements as the RadioSutton blog returns from a few months off this summer.1.  Introducing Emodus Research, a new company created by John Sutton to help public radio professionals identify and leverage the …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How to Setup Your Mac to Develop News Applications Like We Do

2013-06-06 Updated February 9, 2015 Hi, Livia Labate here, Knight-Mozilla Fellow working with the Visuals team. These great instructions have been verified for OS X Yosemite and a few tips and clarifications added throughout. Updated June 12, 2014. Hey everyon …›

NPR visuals team blog→ User-generated graphics in the browser with SVG

2013-05-31 The challenge For NPR’s ongoing series “The Changing Lives of Women”, we wanted to ask women to share advice gleaned from their experience in the workforce. We’ve done a few user-generated content projects using Tumblr as a bac …›

RadioSutton→ NPR, Its Member Stations, and Trust

2013-05-23 Trust is a funny thing in public radio.  The industry’s business model is built on listeners trusting what they hear on public radio and public radio trusting that listeners will voluntarily pay for content they get for free.  It’s been …›

RadioSutton→ Early Lessons from Planet Money’s Kickstarter Campaign

2013-05-07 NPR’s Planet Money launched a Kickstarter campaign last week to help fund a story it wanted to produce on the life of a t-shirt. This is NPR’s first foray into direct listener fundraising.As we wrote in previous postings and in a commentary for C …›

RadioSutton→ A Not-So-Modest NPR Fundraising Proposal

2013-05-01 Little did we know when writing our last posting - "The Inevitability of NPR Raising Money Directly from Listeners" - that NPR was planning its first test of direct fundraising from listeners.NPR's Planet Money launched a Kickstarter campaign …›

RadioSutton→ Public Radio 2018: The Inevitability of NPR Raising Money Directly from Listeners

2013-04-08 This is the fourth installment in our series on what public radio looks like in 2018.  In this posting, why NPR will be raising money directly from listeners and doing it with the belief that it benefits NPR’s member stations.First, some backgro …›

RadioSutton→ Public Radio 2018: Sibling Rivalry

2013-04-05 This is part three of a series on what public radio looks like in 2018.  In the first posting, we wrote:The largest cause of any station audience erosion will come from within the public radio industry, not from outside competitors.The reason is s …›

RadioSutton→ Public Radio 2018: Radio Still Rules

2013-03-08 This is part two in our series on what public radio is likely to look like in 2018.  You can read part one by clicking here. In this posting, why public radio stations will still be, by far, the most significant source of listening to public …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Be our summer intern!

2013-03-08 Why aren’t we flying? Because getting there is half the fun. You know that. (Visuals en route to NICAR 2013.) Hey! Are you a student? Do you design? Develop? Love the web? …or… Do you make pictures? Want to learn to be …›

HearVox News » PubMedia→ SoundCloud on Sound

2013-02-19 SoundCloud interviews sound-experts about sound: Among the interviewees: Moby, Imogen Heap, Jad Abumrad, Ben Rubin. via The Four Eyes. …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How to build a news app that never goes down and costs you practically nothing

2013-02-14 Our app on a shiny iPad: Inauguration 2013. Prelude I’ve been on the NPR apps team for a little over a month now. I’ll be real – it’s been pretty dope. We launched a slideshow showcasing the family photos of Justice Sotomayor, a …›

BBC Internet blog→ The Blue Room at The Consumer Electronics Show

2013-01-22 Hi, my name is Richard and I'm a technologist working in the BBC Blue Room. It's my job to highlight immediate consumer technology trends and game changing media consumption devices and to bring them to the attention of our editorial, technical and m …›

BBC Internet blog→ What’s on BBC Red Button 19-25 January

2013-01-19 We're busy on the Red Button this week preparing to host a maelstrom of great music for your viewing pleasure. It's an eclectic offering - from stadium rockers Bon Jovi to Asian Network collaboration with the BBC Philharmonic to the very best of Nort …›

BBC Internet blog→ External Supply Review

2013-01-18   I'm Richard Smith and I look after feedback and public accountability for BBC Online (including managing the small team who produce this blog and plan and deliver our BBC Online Industry Briefings.) Part of my role involves working with BBC co …›

BBC Internet blog→ US Elections: Mobile design on BBC News

2013-01-18 Recently I had the pleasure of working on US Elections on the BBC News site, a subject I'm especially passionate about as an American living in London. My team produces a huge range of infographics that accompany our daily online news stories and we al …›

BBC Internet blog→ Knowledge & Learning’s Connected Studio brief

2013-01-17 Hi I'm Andy Pipes, executive product manager for Knowledge & Learning at the BBC. Knowledge and Learning (K&L) is a new product in the BBC Online portfolio. When complete, it will exist as a standalone property while also connecting related con …›

BBC Internet blog→ What’s on BBC Red Button 12 – 19 January

2013-01-12 Here's a breakdown of what we've got on the Red Button this week. To stay updated on everything Red Button follow us on Twitter or visit bbc.co.uk/redbutton. Winterwatch Mountain Hare camouflaged against the winter snow The Winterwatch webcams r …›

BBC Internet blog→ News Connected Studio

2013-01-08 Hi I am the head of product for BBC News Online and lead the product strategy and development of website, mobile, tablet and IPTV products for News.The change of year is a good time to look back and also forward. In the BBC News Online product team in …›

BBC Internet blog→ The BBC Sport iPhone app

2013-01-07 I'm Lucie McLean, executive product manager for BBC Sport's mobile services - including the new BBC Sport app which was launched today. The iPhone version of the app is now available from iTunes in the UK and the Android version will follow within the …›

BBC Internet blog→ What’s on BBC Red Button 5th – 12th January

2013-01-05 It's a new year and we've got lots of great red button content to keep you entertained throughout 2013. For drama fans we have EastEnders and Casualty specials coming up this week plus a visit to the CBBC drama Dumping Ground where you can take part …›

BBC Internet blog→ New Antiques Roadshow play-along app

2013-01-03 I'm Tom Williams, development editor for Red Button and dual screen in BBC Vision. Today we launched the Antiques Roadshow play along app for mobiles and tablets. It's a first for the BBC and builds on the hugely successful Red Button play-along game …›

BBC Internet blog→ Christmas 2012 on BBC iPlayer

2013-01-02 I'm Dave Price head of iPlayer here at the BBC. Christmas is always a highlight of the TV calendar. If you're anything like my family, after a long Christmas dinner and a busy day unwrapping presents we gather around the telly watching the celebs …›

BBC Internet blog→ 2012 on the Internet blog

2012-12-22 Hi I joined the Internet blog as the content producer in November. There is a distinct feel of Christmas in the air in our office today and as this will be the last blog post of the year I thought it would be a good place to do a quick 2012 round up, …›

BBC Internet blog→ What’s on BBC Red Button 22 December-5 January

2012-12-22 It's the last Red Button blog of the year - but with Christmas and New Year nearly upon us it's also one of the biggest. We've a bumper line-up to keep you entertained over the next fortnight including a glittering array of sporting highlights from …›

BBC Internet blog→ BBC Learning Indie Commissioning Event

2012-12-20 Hi, I'm Chris Sizemore executive editor for the BBC's Knowledge & Learning product. Alongside Ian Myatt, head of product for Knowledge & Learning, I'm privileged to be responsible for the BBC's digital output around the factual and educational genres. …›

BBC Internet blog→ User Experience and Design Connected Studio

2012-12-20 Hi I'm Yasser and until recently I was the head of User Experience and Design for TV & iPlayer, Radio & Music. Back in October I took part as a judge for the BBC User Experience and Design Connected Studio. BBC People presented by Faith Mowbray at the …›

NPR visuals team blog→ We’re looking for teammates!

2012-12-04 Elections are better with soup. (Photo by Alyson Hurt) Hey! Do you want to make the world a better place? Are you a designer or developer or designer-developer or ux-ui or hacker-journalist? (We love hyphens!) Well, have we got a job for you. The ne …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How NPR Designed Their Live Elections News App (Published At Source (source.opennews.org))

2012-11-23 Case Study: The design process for 'Electris' from concept to election night, written for Source. …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Our first news apps: Tracking weather and elections

2012-11-21 We’ve been working together as a team for about four months now, with most of our projects focused on the presidential campaign and this month’s elections. Here’s a rundown of some of our favorites: Wildfires Fire Forecast began as a …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Election 2012: Electoral combinations

2012-11-13 This is the first in a series of two (or more) blog posts about how we built the Swing State Scorecard and our Election 2012 results site. The idea Early in the development of the Swing State Scorecard we determined that we wanted to tell a story abo …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Hello world: Nerd blogging with Jekyll

2012-11-08 Updated June 12, 2014 by Helga Salinas We’re a new team, and we’re trying something new (at least for us) as a blog publishing platform: Jekyll, a generator that creates simple, static websites. We’re not breaking any ground with thi …›