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Articles tagged KCRW (10)

After more than a decade in the industry, Brian Reed is Question(ing) Everything about it.
“You just need somebody with enough charisma that they would carry people over the line. And it wouldn’t be a traditional journalist.”
People from 433 out of 435 congressional districts have signed up for ProPublica’s User Guide to Democracy, reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times want you to text them, and more. Christine Schmidt
Plus: S-Town gets sued, Spotlight goes audio, and a remarkable new podcast player named Wilson FM.
Now KCRW wants to make the station more local to Berlin and less about American programming. FYI, “totebag” in German is Tragetasche.
Plus the three most interesting podcast companies out there today.
Plus: Getting podcast recs at hotel check-in, a bilingual radionovela, S-Town hits 40 million downloads, and Invisibilia gets ready to return.
“NPR’s capacity is really in news and the spoken word, and it’s very active on the cultural side, but not organized around music. There was a sense we either needed to work with each other or have a hard time competing at all.”
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Ken Freedman thinks radio can be a much more interactive and visual medium. Andrew Phelps
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AIR has won $2 million in grants to hire 10 digital-savvy radio and television producers. Andrew Phelps