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 →Sky’s the limit: KBIA-FM gets $25k grant to create newsgathering drones
Posted: November 28, 2012Are small, nimble flying robots the next newsgathering tool for public broadcasters? Continue reading
First Lady presents national arts and humanities award to Youth Radio
Posted: November 20, 2012Oakland-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
WBEZ’s Curious City brings its inquisitive audience into the reporting action
Posted: November 16, 2012From 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
Tavis Smiley: It’s time to start walking the walk of service to minority communities
Posted: November 16, 2012Torey Malatia’s argument against “advocacy journalism” — leveled at Smiley & West after Chicago’s WBEZ carried the program for two years — is merely a weapon of mass distraction from the real issue. Continue reading
Op-ed: WBEZ’s Malatia says public media must revitalize open, civic discourse in our communities
Posted: November 9, 2012In a pluralistic America, public media is a central resource for promoting inclusiveness in civic engagement. This misson-based role has become even more important in today’s broadcast and digital media environment, in which content is tailored exclusively to audiences based on their ideology and beliefs. Continue reading
Pubradio reporters debate ‘dissing of daily news’
Posted: October 25, 2012Freelance radio and print journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte set off a lively exchange of the philosophical differences between radio producers who work under deadlines to produce daily news stories and those who focus on long-form personal narratives that have been popularized … Continue reading
Radiolab producers release ‘yellow rain’ email
Posted: October 25, 2012Producers of the program have made public the full list of questions they had originally emailed to their interview subject for the controversial piece. Continue reading