Posted: December, 18, 2012
By Ben Mook
From roughnecks to singing cowboys and itinerant knife dealers, North Dakota’s oil boom has lured thousands to remote areas of the state to find their fortunes, and in the process became a fertile source of stories for an immersive yearlong multimedia reporting project. Continue reading →
Posted: September, 10, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
Once thought to have been left for dead after the vaudeville era, variety shows have re-entered the public radio reinvention conversation — and it doesn’t take Guy Noir to find out why. Continue reading →
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 →
Posted: February, 11, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
Sonic Trace seeks to record stories from southern California’s Latino immigrant communities, documenting the many and varied paths they take to get to the City of Angels. Continue reading →
Posted: February, 08, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
The latest public radio program to experiment with the big screen, NPR's fun-loving news quiz show Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! will be broadcast live across more than 600 movie theaters on May 2. The live movie-screen simulcast is becoming an increasingly popular tool for public radio. Continue reading →
Posted: February, 07, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
More than six weeks after first announcing his arts-and-culture radio program's exit from longtime distributor PRI, Jesse Thorn revealed the details of Bullseye's new partnership on his Tumblr account Feb. 7. Beginning in April, the program will be distributed through NPR, with no break in carriage after the program's relationship with PRI ends in late March. Continue reading →
Posted: February, 05, 2013
By Erica Sánchez-Vázquez
The educational system in the newly independent South Sudan is undergoing many changes, and WXXI’s Hélène Biandudi recently reported on them firsthand for broadcast and digital audiences of the Rochester, N.Y., station. Continue reading →
Posted: January, 30, 2013
By Mike Janssen
With Generation Putin: Young People and Change in the Former Soviet Union, a new hourlong public radio special, Public Radio Exchange and producers from Seattle-based Common Language Project take listeners to a places in Eastern Europe that they might never visit otherwise. Continue reading →
Posted: January, 28, 2013
By Mike Janssen
Decades ago, Karl Schmidt occupied himself by staging elaborate award-winning works of theater for radio broadcast. At 90, he’s still weaving compelling stories on the air, but he’s down to a troupe of just one actor — himself. Continue reading →Two years after Antioch College reopened its campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, it negotiated an $8 million deal to buy back WYSO, NPR News and contemporary music station broadcasting at 50,000-watts on 91.3 MHz. Antioch University, a five-campus university system, has operated … Continue reading
The American Association for the Advancement of Science singled out the first of four BURN documentary specials, “Particles: Nuclear Power After Fukushima,” which aired March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. … Continue reading
For the next year StoryCorps, the public radio group collecting and presenting life stories told between family members and friends, will undertake a new initiative to record oral histories of veterans and active-duty members of the armed forces serving in … Continue reading
WDDE-FM signed on in August 2012, becoming the first public radio station based in the state of Delaware. Governor Jack Markell cut the ribbon at a ceremony at WDDE’s Dover headquarters Dec. 3. Continue reading
The company behind NPR’s Science Friday show is suing a Colorado preacher and radio host for trademark infringement and cybersquatting with his radio show that debunks evolution, Real Science Friday. The lawsuit was filed in the Supreme Court of New … Continue reading
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
Torey 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