Boyer, the head of NPR’s news apps team, puts on his professor hat and offers a syllabus for “making useful things for people.”
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NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is an American radio producer and distributor that specializes in news, public affairs, and cultural programming. NPR was launched in 1970 as a collaboration among the nation’s public-broadcasting stations. It is not a radio station itself, but instead a central news organization that produces, licenses, and distributes a variety of…
September 7, 2012
August 1, 2012
The videos are up, and now’s the time to revisit some of the lessons learned at this year’s conference.
July 17, 2012
From Yahoo to Tribune to NBC News, you have to figure out what you are before you can figure out what you’ll become.
July 12, 2012
It’s easy to focus on all the bad news about the news business. But there are some reasons for optimism poking through the clouds.
June 8, 2012
Tom and Ray Magliozzi endure, 35 years on, because they act like no one but themselves.
“I’m a project manager masquerading as a programmer masquerading as a journalist,” Boyer says.
May 17, 2012
Journalism and education are both about knowledge. Could their post-disruption business models start to blur?
Users already spend a lot of time in the Flipboard app, and if past data is any indication, audio could keep people “flipping” a lot longer.
April 27, 2012
The network is apparently taking a page from agile software development, creating radio programs in “permanent beta” to reach new audiences.
April 19, 2012
At the Logan Symposium at Berkeley, investigative reporting showed plenty of signs of life.
The Center for Investigative Reporting project aims to grow audiences and revenue by assembling the work of many different news organizations, large and small.
April 10, 2012
Melody Joy Kramer is the sole web producer at NPR’s Fresh Air. The show’s growth on the web and social media is eclipsing others on public radio.
NPR is testing how best to push its national web audience to local stations’ news.
March 19, 2012
Listenership growth to news/talk/information radio overall has leveled off, but NPR says digital is where the growth is.
March 9, 2012
Plus: Good news and bad news for Apple, James Murdoch’s move at News Corp., the value of linking, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.
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