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 →NPR receives $1.5 million grant to support race and ethnicity reporting
Posted: August 7, 2012…Like Planet Money, the as-yet-unnamed unit will establish its brand on multiple platforms, through reports for NPR’s radio shows, a blog and other facets… Continue reading
WWNO, NPR plan expanded newsroom to serve New Orleans
Posted: August 6, 2012A group of public radio partners is preparing to launch a new local journalism nonprofit that will employ upwards of 20 people in a hybrid digital/broadcast newsroom. Continue reading
Daisey, onstage and off air, revives his ‘Agony and Ecstasy’
Posted: August 6, 2012“There is no objective, journalistic version of the show,” Daisey said. “I will be, always, making constant lies of omission by leaving out tons and tons and reams and reams of details.” Continue reading
Knight retools grant programs, adds new fund for ‘tinkerers of all kinds’
Posted: July 9, 2012In another set of changes intended to adjust its journalism philanthropy to the rapidly evolving digital-media marketplace, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation unveiled a new grants program last month and created a new mechanism for providing aid … Continue reading
NPR builds up team of news-app developers
Posted: June 25, 2012NPR is stepping up its efforts to innovate in digital news by expanding staff and hiring Brian Boyer, a programmer who created interactive web presentations for the Chicago Tribune. Continue reading
Satullo: You’ll make mistakes, so be sure to learn from them
Posted: June 25, 2012Do you have the courage to fail? I asked that leading question during a keynote address to public media journalists who attended “Taking News Digital,” a June 7–9 workshop exploring the lessons we’ve learned at WHYY since launching NewsWorks.org in … Continue reading
CPB grant to NPR backs expanding foreign coverage
Posted: June 25, 2012CPB has awarded a $500,000 grant to NPR to support the network’s international news coverage. The grant, announced at a March 26 awards dinner honoring NPR correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, will support salaries and travel costs for reporters and producers in … Continue reading