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With their new website up, KPLU journalists scrutinized usage and found clues pointing to stories that work online. Continue reading →

Here’s a roundup of how NPR, Democracy Now! and Tampa’s WUSF are covering the party conventions. Continue reading →

With the NewsHour‘s Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff stepping into co-anchor roles for PBS’s coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, producers have reconfigured their set and editorial plans for the 18 hours of live broadcasts that begin airing on PBS stations on Tuesday.

The coverage, airing at 8 p.m. ET through Thursday on most PBS stations, marks the passing of the torch from retired anchor Jim Lehrer, and makes Ifill and Woodruff the first female anchor due to co-anchor coverage of the major party conventions… Continue reading →

NPR’s All Things Considered now comes with a monthly dose of poetry, courtesy of poets who embed themselves among the network’s journalists… Continue reading →

Underwriters of public radio programs increasingly want to link their names more closely to particular stories and reporting projects, according to station executives, a trend that is requiring journalists to be more vigilant in fighting perceptions of potential conflicts of interest. Continue reading →

…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 →

A 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 →