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 Jersey’s pubradio operators step up coverage of Garden State
Posted: May 29, 2012Nearly a year ago, two of the East Coast’s largest metropolitan pubcasting powerhouses took over nine New Jersey pubradio stations, casting uncertainty over the future of public radio news coverage for Garden State listeners. The outlook has begun to brighten … Continue reading
NBC, noncom reporting relationships “still in infancy” but producing stories
Posted: May 29, 2012The collaborations between several NBC owned-and-operated stations and nonprofit news enterprises, part of Comcast’s deal to takeover NBC-Universal (Current, Jan. 17), are generating “important stories they’ve broken together,” reports TVNewsCheck. KNBC Los Angeles and noncom KPPC-FM together revealed that a … Continue reading
Ford backs for-profit newsroom
Posted: May 29, 2012A recent Ford Foundation grant to the Los Angeles Times highlights the heightened competition pubcasters face for philanthropic dollars in a fast-changing media world. The $1.04 million two-year grant to the newspaper, a subsidiary of the Tribune Company media conglomerate, … Continue reading
Delays by IRS put chills on news startups
Posted: May 14, 2012Nonprofit news outfits that have sprung up across the country to fill gaps left by commercial media have hit an unexpected barrier in establishing themselves as providers of local news and information: the Internal Revenue Service. As many as a dozen journalism startups, most of them run largely by volunteers and accepting no advertising, have had their requests to be recognized as tax-exempt organizations delayed for many months and, in some cases, years. Continue reading
Merger with CIR brings shift in focus for S.F.’s Bay Citizen
Posted: May 14, 2012Two years after its launch as a new online news organization covering the San Francisco region, the Bay Citizen is reconsidering its mission and editorial focus under new management. As of May 1, it merged operations with the Berkeley-based Center … Continue reading
Lehrer hands off anchor role to reporting team
Posted: May 14, 2012Jim Lehrer, who has reported the news of the day for more than 50 years, became part of it May 12 when he announced that he will step away from the weeknight anchor desk at PBS NewsHour in June. A … Continue reading
Multiplatform: KPBS extends its news expansion to television
Posted: April 23, 2012With the launch of KPBS-TV’s Evening Edition, the pubcasting outlet took another big step towards General Manager Tom Karlo’s ambitious goal to become “the premiere source of local thoughtful news across all platforms” in San Diego.
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