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Articles tagged radio (48)

Shan WangMarch 31, 2016

In the room where it happens: The host of NPR’s new show Embedded talks about news in podcast form

Kelly McEvers: “A lot of the great storytelling podcasts happen in the studio. I hope ours opens the door to people thinking more about what you can do in the field, when things don’t go as planned and are unexpected.”

Shan WangJanuary 21, 2016

The New York Times and WBUR are bringing ‘Modern Love’ essays to life with sounds and celebrity reads

“We’re trying to touch people just through sound, in a really profound way.”

Nicholas QuahNovember 24, 2015

Hot Pod: Revisiting the question: Why doesn’t audio go viral?

The UX innovation we need. Plus: public radio executive pay, a boom in custom branded podcasts, and the aging of NPR’s audience.

Joshua BentonNovember 18, 2015

Podcasting in 2015 feels a lot like blogging circa 2004: exciting, evolving, and trouble for incumbents

The same trends we saw a decade ago — professionalization on one hand, platformization on the other — sure seem to be playing out again.

Justin EllisOctober 23, 2015

Shouts, murmurs, earbuds: How The New Yorker is making the transition to radio

The magazine is collaborating with WNYC Studios to launch a new radio show and podcast. So what, exactly, does The New Yorker sound like?

Dan KennedyAugust 4, 2015

In New Haven, a low-power FM experiment seeks local conversation — and financial sustainability

WNHH, debuting next week, aims to extend the community journalism of the New Haven Independent to the airwaves — and to reflect the city it’s in.

Dan KennedyDecember 3, 2013

The New Haven Independent seeks to expand its hyperlocal mission to low-power radio

Why be limited to one medium? Taking to the terrestrial airwaves would bring a new audience to the Independent’s journalism.

Monday Q&A: NPR’s Matt Thompson on Code Switch, covering race and culture, and developing a mobile audience

“We knew from the outset that it was incredibly important to foster a really robust and vibrant conversation on these issues, and we knew, also, that it’s really easy for conversations about race, ethnicity, and culture to go off the rails.” Justin Ellis

RootIO wants to take radio back to the local level in Uganda

The Knight News Challenge winner will experiment with using cheap tools and existing networks to produce radio programming through mobile devices. Justin Ellis

Antonio JiménezJuly 20, 2012

Deutsche Welle’s trying to use Africa’s mobile-phone boom to spread news by new means

The German broadcaster is using SMS and dial-to-listen radio shows to reach an audience with limited Internet access.

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