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Joshua BentonSeptember 28, 2020

A new set of threats to the BBC — internal and external — challenges its role as anchor of U.K. media

The BBC functions as a heat sink for polarization — converting potentially dangerous energy into something the system can more easily deal with. A new group of broadcast competitors and its likely new set of bosses see it differently.

AJ+, Al Jazeera’s social-video-friendly service, will now have to register as a “foreign agent” in the United States

Christine SchmidtAugust 1, 2019

What does a solutions-focused newscast on public TV look like? PBS39 has been at it for nearly a year

“It wasn’t, like, ‘bam bam soundbite soundbite you’re done.'”

Christine SchmidtMay 21, 2018

Flush with spectrum-sale dollars, a Pennsylvania PBS station is doubling down on a different kind of local news

“Our goal is a newscast that is complementary to the commercial news”: Think important local issues, not car crashes and sports scores.

Nicholas QuahFebruary 13, 2018

Today, Explained, explained: Vox enters the daily news podcast race with a comma-happy, personality-driven show

Plus: HBO buys in, ESPN brags condescendingly, big networks scale back, and Call Your Girlfriend plots its future. Also, gifs.

Nicholas QuahSeptember 5, 2017

These are the most important developments in the podcast business so far in 2017

Plus the three most interesting podcast companies out there today.

Joseph LichtermanMarch 16, 2017

This is what could happen if Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate funding for public broadcasting is enacted

“Ultimately, the system itself would be at serious risk of collapse.”

Nicholas QuahFebruary 21, 2017

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is on a White House hit list for elimination

That’s bad in ways you already know and in more ways you don’t.

Joseph LichtermanJanuary 27, 2017

With its existence under threat from a new president, the core concepts of American public broadcasting turn 50 this week

The Carnegie Commission on Educational Television’s 1967 report established the framework for the modern system of public television and radio — and prompted the first political fights over its future.

Nicholas QuahJanuary 24, 2017

Hot Pod: What does an audio producer actually do, anyway?

Plus: Panoply grabs some big partners, question marks at Acast, and success in local podcasting through Hearken.

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