The WNET Group, KERA, East Tennessee PBS, Ball State PBS, and KSPS PBS to develop new podcasts for kids and caregivers — PRX, PBS KIDS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced a Ready To Learn Podcast Accelerator training program for five teams of public media producers from stations across the United States to develop new educational on-demand audio programming for children ages 2–8 and their caregivers. This podcast training…

The winners of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring brave concepts, companies, policies, and designs that are pursuing innovation for the good of society and the planet. “Ear Hustle” — part of the Radiotopia podcast network from PRX, sharing the daily realities of life in…

Project Brazen is expanding its relationship with PRX to release a new slate of premier podcasts in 2022–2023, underscored by impactful journalism and extraordinary narratives from around the world. “Resistance: Stories from Ukraine” will launch May 5 with weekly first-person accounts from Ukrainian citizens facing war, followed by a new series launching this summer featuring stories from the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan

The multi-part narrative podcast series re-examining the tragic story of sprinter Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp was awarded gold in the sports podcast category and was also honored in serialized podcast and documentary categories — The New York Festivals Radio Awards announced 2022 Storytellers Gala award-winners — honoring innovative audio work created by world-class storytellers — including the narrative series “False Idol” from award-winning media company Religion of Sports and public media organization PRX.

Podcasts distributed by PRX are also among the 2022 honorees and nominees, including “How God Works with David DeSteno,” “Passenger List,” “Forever Is A Long Time,” and “In the Thick” — The Webby Awards — presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), the leading international organization honoring excellence on the Internet — today named the winners in their 26th annual awards.

“My Mother Made Me” creator Jason Reynolds will be joined by “Radiolab” creator Jad Abumrad to discuss and explore the new personal nonfiction podcast series. “Oprahdemics” co-hosts Kellie Carter Jackson and Leah Wright Rigueur will be joined by special guest and Pulitzer Prize winning critic Wesley Morris for a live taping. — The Radiotopia podcast network from PRX today announced its upcoming presence at the iconic Tribeca Festival in New York City.

Peck previously served as Director of Station Relations, Audience Development at WAMU — Public media organization PRX today announced Jonathan Peck will join the staff beginning April 20. Peck joins the marketing team at PRX as Senior Director of Broadcast and Podcast Marketing, where he will build and implement strategies to continue the growth of PRX programming across podcast and radio broadcast formats…

“Radiotopia Presents: S***hole Country” is an audio memoir from anonymous independent creator Afia Kaakyire. “Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe” is an investigative podcast and public radio series from Reveal and PRX — The Peabody Awards today announced two audio series distributed by PRX as nominees as part of their 82nd annual awards, including the Radiotopia podcast series “Radiotopia Presents: S***hole Country” and the investigative podcast and public radio series “Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe” from Reveal.

Presented by the Onassis Foundation and TRAX from PRX, “Live from Mount Olympus” is created by Peabody Award-winning Producer Julie Burstein, Executive Produced by Karen Brooks Hopkins, Co-produced with the TEAM, and co-directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin and Keenan Tyler Oliphant. Season 2 is hosted by New York theater icon Ching Valdes-Aran and includes cameos by Anna Kendrick and Isabella Rossellini