May 7, 2024
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Today, though, most of the reporting power, much of the brand power, and thepolitical power still resides in big companies and their leadership. We may well get our strongest display of that early in 2013: In Washington, the FCC cross-ownership debate may move to center stage in January. And ...
Read MoreSo let’s look broadly at those numbers. Count them all up — and undoubtedly, numerous ones are missing — and you’ve got something more than 65,000 journalists, working for brands of one kind or another.
Read MoreOne hundred "public media" reporters and editors in a market is a huge increase. Among those four stations, the news staff would now range from 12 to 30 each, among them. It's tough to count because these are legacy radio operations and radio requires different job descriptions than digital ...
Read MoreThe 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 ...
Read More“The difference is that public radio has a ‘barker channel,’ meaning they have the radio megaphone to get people to come into the tent or become members in the first place during membership drives in which they can withhold the programming,” he says. “That barker channel is great for public ...
Read MoreMost significantly, I think, is the passion you can hear from those practicing the new, non-profit journalism. Freed from the visegrip of industry worry, they are doing the journalism, and you can hear the optimism in their voices. My issue here can still be summed up in one word: scale. That's ...
Read MoreYou can see how public media is finally forging long-overdue connections: NPR, Frontline and PBS, and now the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is putting money into local online news. That's a potent combination brewing.
Read MoreIt seems to me that we're all a bit confused in this country between access and information. We pay hundreds of dollars for access -- cable, Internet, wireless monthly bills -- but we don't like the notion that a news company might charge us the price of a grande latte for a news app, or ...
Read MoreIf Sweeney came concerned, he might have left more worried. Yes, Public Radio’s legacy business is radio, and, more recently, audio, via podcast and streaming. What Sweeney heard, though, was a larger Who, public radio’s nascent attempts to assert itself as a major online (and then presumably ...
Read MoreImportant 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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