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Articles tagged KCRW (10)

Neel DhaneshaOctober 7, 2024

The former host of S-Town has a new subject to investigate: Journalism

After more than a decade in the industry, Brian Reed is Question(ing) Everything about it.

Neel DhaneshaOctober 7, 2024

What’s the journalism we can make for people who don’t trust journalism?

“You just need somebody with enough charisma that they would carry people over the line. And it wouldn’t be a traditional journalist.”

A referendum on media experiments? Here’s what news organizations are toying with in the 2018 election cycle

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

Nicholas QuahJuly 17, 2018

Dog-eared MP3s: The podcast and book publishing industries are finding new ways to cross-pollinate

Plus: S-Town gets sued, Spotlight goes audio, and a remarkable new podcast player named Wilson FM.

Shan WangJanuary 23, 2018

Ich bin ein Berliner: How a California NPR affiliate ended up running an English-language station in Germany

Now KCRW wants to make the station more local to Berlin and less about American programming. FYI, “totebag” in German is Tragetasche.

Nicholas QuahSeptember 5, 2017

These are the most important developments in the podcast business so far in 2017

Plus the three most interesting podcast companies out there today.

Nicholas QuahMay 9, 2017

So how in the world do you break into a career in podcasting, anyway?

Plus: Getting podcast recs at hotel check-in, a bilingual radionovela, S-Town hits 40 million downloads, and Invisibilia gets ready to return.

Ricardo BiltonDecember 2, 2016

With VuHaus, public music stations hope collaboration will bring in more listeners (and money) online

“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.”

WFMU wants to shake up radio storytelling…with a conference

Ken Freedman thinks radio can be a much more interactive and visual medium. Andrew Phelps

Localore aims to shake up public media, pairing producers with ‘incubators’ across the country

AIR has won $2 million in grants to hire 10 digital-savvy radio and television producers. Andrew Phelps