The Newsonomics of NPR One and the Dream of Personalized Public Radio

Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor   First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Wouldn’t it be cool if public radio fans could get to all their stuff in one simple app? Stuff from Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Here & Now, All Things Considered — and their local ...

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The Newsonomics of Public Radio’s All-in-One Tablet Strategy

First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   It’s a tablet experiment in cross-pollination. How do you use the 48 square inches of an iPad to expose the depth of public radio — thousands of hours of national programming, local shows, and community news that add up to a ...

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MPR’s Bill Kling Steps Down — and Up — From Public Radio

Kling didn't really care about the nuances of non-profit and for-profit; that's why he had well-paid lawyers. What he cared about was building a public radio station, and then a nationwide network, that had impact. If he and a number of associates did pretty well for themselves financially, why ...

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The Newsonomics of Public Radio’s Argonauts

The Argo funding is one of the first things that tells us about the business of this effort. Like Silicon Valley startups, the effort is about building a product that seems to meet a clear audience need, building that audience — and then finding a sustainable business model. That’s what has ...

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Public Radio Quickly Emerging as New Local Player

Important Details:  The Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) is an above-average news market. It ranks highly in measures such as regular internet access, college graduates and high-income households. It boasts two metropolitan dailies, a rarity across the country. Now it’s quickly ...

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Public Radio Aims Local

Important Details:  National Public Radio has re-launched its new national website, multiplying the amount of the its content and improving its immediacy. Importantly, it also re-imagined its national/local handoffs, connections that have been difficult for all legacy media companies to re-draw ...

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Public Radio’s Marketplace Faces Familiar Digital Challenges

Important Details: What do you do if you have one of the most successful and fastest growing business news programs? You worry about the digital future, just like newspaper and magazine publishers. American Public Media’s Marketplace is a success story, and a lesson in business news ...

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Newsonomics: Is The New York Times Now, In Part, A Radio Station?

The Times and American Public Media announced Tuesday that the paper’s podcast The Daily will now be a broadcast radio show too. The news further certifies The Daily as a phenomenon. Host Michael Barbaro and his expanding stellar crew just celebrated their one-year anniversary, with the Times ...

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Newsonomics: 11 Questions Into The Year, on Vulture Alden, the Merc’s Decline, the Post’s Profitability and The Daily Goes All Radio

No, the saga of the Los Angeles Times isn’t the only story in the newspaper world. It’s just that in its breathtaking oddness, it consumed the beginning of our year. Let’s begin with one question about the future of the Times, but then move on to other early-in-the-year questions that may tell ...

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9 Midsummer, 2017 News Lessons: NYT Subs, Sinclair’s Ascent, DFM’s Long Good-bye, New Antitrust Public Interest Thinking, WSJ Resurgence?

This hardly seems like a beachy, devil-may-care summer. Among fears of North Korean missiles, new Russian menace, and a highly unpredictable Administration, we are a nervous people. For the news media, it’s been a year of two tales. Never has the press been so pilloried, relentlessly, ...

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