Public Media

Because we have to. There is a special magic to call-in radio shows when they go right. Simple. To the point. Disarming. Surprising. Most importantly, they become the chorus of the city itself singing out of your speakers. It’s an aural town square you can access from your car or…

And offer agency to those suffering from intersectional bias I’m a journalist who sees that there are more effective ways for our industry to fulfill its purpose of giving people useful information for their lives and how they’re governed. As an Asian American journalist who feels kinship with other women of color, I’m looking for ways to contribute to…

Congress needs to fix loopholes in a news protection act moving toward a vote if it hopes to meet its aims of preserving local journalism. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, JCPA, aims to fundamentally shift the relationship between U.S. news companies and digital platforms by forcing platforms to negotiate…

U.S. legislation that lets media cartels collude is the wrong way to foster public-interest journalism — By Sanjay Jolly and Timothy Karr Yes, journalism is in crisis in the United States. That’s obvious to anyone observing the job losses and newspaper closures that have wreaked havoc on local news production over the past 20 years. …

The Big Questions Project podcast development program is a partnership between the John Templeton Foundation and PRX that trains, mentors, and provides resources to new voices in podcasting. — The Big Questions Project is a new podcast development program for individuals, thinkers, and storytellers focused on or at the intersection of scientific, philosophical, and spiritual life. Participants in PRX’s Big Questions Project will receive $35,000 in funding to produce two seasons of an original series. …

by Leslie Fields-Cruz Contemplating the future of public media is an evergreen activity among people in my position. We’re always trying to figure out what type of content public media audiences need and want, and then how best to deliver it to them. October marks the beginning of BPM’s new…

A privacy-first suite of applications for all your podcasting needs — PRX is one of the largest podcast distributors — both in terms of the number of shows and downloads per month of each show — in the world. …

By Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, Mark Fuerst, Caroline Porter We live in an era of shrinking local journalism capacity. By now we all know the statistics: Since 2005 more than one in four newspapers — 2,500 total — have shuttered in the U.S. Overall employment in the newspaper industry has decreased…

Internal battles rage at RTV amidst allegations of pressure from management By IPI contributor Katja Lihtenvalner Sep 30, 2022 Newsroom Since coming to power in April 2022, Slovenia’s new centre-left government led by Prime Minister Robert Golob has pressed ahead with a campaign pledge to reform the country’s outdated media law…