Sky's the limit: KBIA-FM gets $25k grant to create newsgathering drones
Posted: November, 28, 2012
By Dru Sefton
Journalism
News, game-ified and powered by the crowd
Posted: October, 10, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
Pubcaster, college, for-profit news all meld in Macon
Posted: September, 24, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
New alliance in Mile High City
Posted: February, 01, 2013
By Dru Sefton
“If you can’t make it important, it’s probably not worth doing”
Posted: May, 17, 2013
Interview by Karen Everhart and Dru Sefton
First Lady presents national arts and humanities award to Youth Radio
Posted: November, 20, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
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
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