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Articles tagged public media (29)
March 19, 2013
February 11, 2013
Thorn hopes the show, which focuses on culture and interviews, will be a good fit for NPR weekends.
February 5, 2013
The three-year-old I-News leaves the ranks of small nonprofit news startups and finds a broader audience by merging with Colorado’s largest public TV station.
January 16, 2013
The immersive multimedia documentary, built using Zeega, tells the story of the impact of oil drilling in North Dakota.
December 17, 2012
European media scholar Rasmus Kleis Nielsen says there are big differences between how the media ecosystems on both sides on the Atlantic are shifting — and some ways Americans can learn from Europeans.
September 17, 2012
His worry for local stations: Without jumping on digital opportunities, someday soon they “will be revealed as rather pedestrian repeaters of national content.”
“I’m a project manager masquerading as a programmer masquerading as a journalist,” Boyer says.
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 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.
March 8, 2012
Ford worried that public media was not changing, so he left it for Silicon Valley; now he’s bringing an entrepreneurial spirit back to his roots.
March 2, 2012
The new CEO discusses connected cars, threats to public funding, and the organization’s fully multi-platform approach to news.
March 1, 2012
What does a “membership” program for a newspaper look like, and will readers look at it differently than they would a paywall?
Ten producers will pair up with stations to create journalism projects ranging from an “alternate-reality” game to a music festival.
December 8, 2011
Public media is taking a cue from Silicon Valley, embracing risk and rapidly funding disruptive, short-term projects.
November 16, 2011
It might be a perfect match for the Internet-connected car — and evidence the network is thinking more like a digital start-up.
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