Collaboration Profile: A Look at WNYC and NYT’s SchoolBook
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App City: New York Public Radio Releases App for WNYC
WNYC has released an app for iPhones, offering live streaming and podcasts.
Questions for the big bird: Gary Knell on digital expansion at NPR
NPR’s incoming president and CEO, Gary Knell, inherits challenges that are well-reported elsewhere: repairing the network’s image after scandals forced three executives to resign this spring; fighting to salvage federal funding and looking for new funding models; and maintaing good relations with 268 member stations. He also inherits a legacy of technological innovation at the...
Jad Abumrad, Radiolab’s ‘genius’ storyteller, on what public radio needs now: ‘more joy, more chaos’
First thing's first: Jad Abumrad does not know how he will spend half a million dollars, but it's probably going right into his labor of love, the mind-bending radio show that earned him a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant this week. "The central problem for me has always been that the show keeps me alive, and...
Jad Abumrad, Radiolab’s ‘genius’ storyteller, on what public radio needs now: ‘more joy, more chaos’
First thing's first: Jad Abumrad does not know how he will spend half a million dollars, but it's probably going right into his labor of love, the mind-bending radio show that earned him a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant this week. "The central problem for me has always been that the show keeps me alive, and...
The NYT joins forces with YouTube and Storyful to collect and share video reflections of 9/11
The New York Times is in collaboration mode. Last week, it announced a local partnership with its fellow local news source, WNYC to cover the city's education system; today, it's announced a collaboration that is decidedly more national in scope. In the run-up to September 11, the paper is joining with YouTube and the video-curation...
Deal Eases New Jersey Out of Public Broadcasting
WNET in New York will take over the television operations of the New Jersey Network for five years under a deal announced on Monday by Gov. Chris Christie.
“Expanding the palette of public radio”: Marc Maron’s WTF moves from podcast to program
Last month, we posted an interview Josh did with The Sound of Young America‘s Jesse Thorn. During their conversation, Thorn mentioned that he was working on trying to bring his friend Marc Maron's interview show WTF to public radio sometime in the "late spring of this year."
Well: It is done. Last week, WTF...
Well: It is done. Last week, WTF...
On ‘Radiolab,’ the Sound of Science
Painstakingly produced and aesthetically radical, the show brings a musty medium into the 21st century.
The Business of Public Radio: WNYC Bulks Up, Builds Out
The Public Media 2.0 series on MediaShift is sponsored by American University's Center for Social Media (CSM) through a grant from the Ford Foundation. Learn more about CSM's research on emerging public media trends and standards at futu...
Special Series: Public Media 2.0
The Public Media 2.0 series on MediaShift is sponsored by American University's Center for Social Media (CSM) through a grant from the Ford Foundation. Learn more about CSM's research on emerging public media trends and standards at futu...
Pop and Politics Blog Becomes Converged Radio Project
These days it's not so unusual for a public radio program to boast a companion blog. But few shows begin online and move to broadcast.Pop and Politics is the exception.Farai Chideya -- a high-profile public affairs reporter, novelist, an...
