Sky's the limit: KBIA-FM gets $25k grant to create newsgathering drones
Posted: November, 28, 2012
By Dru Sefton
Are small, nimble flying robots the next newsgathering tool for public broadcasters? Continue reading →Journalism
News, game-ified and powered by the crowd
Posted: October, 10, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
Documentary filmmakers, code developers and public media executives are creating more interactive takes on the news in order to draw audiences into deeper experiences. Continue reading →
WBEZ's Curious City brings its inquisitive audience into the reporting action
Posted: November, 16, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
From exploring underground tunnels to tracking the evolution of the Chicago accent, Curious City is an unconventional spin on community-based public media reporting. Continue reading →
Pubcaster, college, for-profit news all meld in Macon
Posted: September, 24, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
A partnership between a public radio station, a private university and a for-profit newspaper is beefing up local news coverage in Georgia’s fourth-largest city. Continue reading →
New alliance in Mile High City
Posted: February, 01, 2013
By Dru Sefton
The latest merger agreement from Denver combines three different breeds of public media — flagship pubTV station Rocky Mountain PBS, community-licensed jazz broadcaster KUVO-FM and investigative digital news outlet I-News Network — in a consolidation that aims to build strength through diversity. Continue reading →
First Lady presents national arts and humanities award to Youth Radio
Posted: November, 20, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
Oakland-based Youth Radio paid a visit to the White House Nov. 19, as First Lady Michelle Obama awarded the nonprofit for its work training inner-city youth in arts, journalism and multimedia production. Continue reading →
Student-centered News Outlet to report on fracking
Posted: December, 04, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
A four-year-old nonprofit news service established by two professors at Youngstown State University is taking on an expanded role in investigative news reporting and journalism training in northeast Ohio and beyond.
The News Outlet and its website, TheNewsOutlet.org, recipient of a two-year $302,000 matching grant in July from the James L. Knight Foundation and Cleveland-based Raymond John Wean Foundation, will increase its news coverage on the effects of the increase of oil and gas drilling in Ohio, Pennsylvania and western New York.
Continue reading →New alliance in Mile High City
Posted: February 1, 2013The latest merger agreement from Denver combines three different breeds of public media — flagship pubTV station Rocky Mountain PBS, community-licensed jazz broadcaster KUVO-FM and investigative digital news outlet I-News Network — in a consolidation that aims to build strength through diversity. Continue reading
WNYC shares previously unreleased recordings of Martin Luther King Jr. interviews
Posted: January 16, 2013New York’s WNYC has released for the first time recordings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. interviewed on several occasions in the 1960s by Eleanor Fischer, a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reporter who later worked for NPR. The interviews capture … Continue reading
NPR’s Carvin stands by Twitter coverage of Newtown shooting
Posted: December 20, 2012Did NPR’s tweeter extraordinaire Andy Carvin go overboard during the media frenzy surrounding the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn.? Michael Wolff made that argument in a column for the Guardian newspaper, accusing Carvin of becoming “a fevered spreader of … Continue reading
Nightly Business Report cuts jobs, closes Chicago bureau
Posted: December 18, 2012A new round of layoffs at Nightly Business Report, initiated last week, pared full-time staff to 22, down by half from two years ago. Cutbacks included shuttering the show’s Chicago bureau, where chief correspondent Diane Eastabrook has worked for the … Continue reading
BURN: An Energy Journal wins AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award
Posted: December 10, 2012The American Association for the Advancement of Science singled out the first of four BURN documentary specials, “Particles: Nuclear Power After Fukushima,” which aired March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. … Continue reading
Radio g.m.’s adapt business models for newsgathering
Posted: December 4, 2012Public radio is adapting too slowly to the competitive challenges it faces from Internet-based media platforms, and the pace of change must increase if local stations are to thrive in the years ahead. It’s a warning that public broadcasters have … Continue reading
Student-centered News Outlet to report on fracking
Posted: December 4, 2012A four-year-old nonprofit news service established by two professors at Youngstown State University is taking on an expanded role in investigative news reporting and journalism training in northeast Ohio and beyond.
The News Outlet and its website, TheNewsOutlet.org, recipient of a two-year $302,000 matching grant in July from the James L. Knight Foundation and Cleveland-based Raymond John Wean Foundation, will increase its news coverage on the effects of the increase of oil and gas drilling in Ohio, Pennsylvania and western New York.