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The Woods Hole Community has bought the home of CAI, but the station will still have to move

Neel DhaneshaJanuary 9, 2025

GBH tried to sell the home of a legendary radio station. It kicked off a proxy war for the soul of audio.

“Woods Hole tends to be pretty passionate about things, and when people get startled they get angry.”

Christine SchmidtSeptember 13, 2019

Can a science escape room livestreamed on Twitch help bring viewers to public media?

“What made us want to watch this for an hour and a half? Their ability to talk through the puzzles made me not only understand the puzzles but find out the answer and get invested.”

For public radio stations, “membership” mostly means “money”

Christine SchmidtMarch 5, 2018

Apologies for the clickbait, but: Public media archives. Gamified transcription. Go ahead and click

It might not be the sexiest journalism innovation, but WGBH is hoping to keep public radio and public television’s massive archives alive and useful by harnessing the power of dopamine.

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.

Nicholas QuahJune 6, 2017

Apple, podcasting’s dominant (and mostly benign) middleman, is rebooting how it delivers shows

Plus: Gimlet makes a curious acquisition, a new run at fixing podcast discovery, and an under-the-hood technical shift.

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.

Laura Hazard OwenMay 3, 2016

A new growth area for foreign reporting: podcasts? With reporters in-country, GroundTruth hopes so

“There’s pretty much nothing, as far as I can tell, in terms of real, international, on-the-ground reporting in the world of podcasting.”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 14, 2016

GlobalPost’s founder hopes to find freedom from platforms and ads with a new email newsletter

“At GlobalPost, I saw the loss of control over so many things that are important to your success.”

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