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Joshua BentonOctober 10, 2024

With Hurricane Milton looming, NPR stations got a lower-bandwidth way to reach residents

In normal times, text-only websites are a niche interest. But a natural disaster is not normal times.

Hanaa' TameezFebruary 17, 2022

What diversity looks like on public radio: Christopher Chávez explores how NPR could be reimagined to serve everyone

NPR sells itself on the idea that it’s a public broadcasting network. But, Christopher Chávez argues in a new book, that hasn’t fully included Latinx listeners.

The BBC fights suggestions that it convert to a subscription model: “The principle of universality is absolutely the debate here”

Antoine Haywood and Victor PickardNovember 10, 2021

Public access television channels are an untapped resource for building local journalism

Instead of letting public access channels wither due to commercial market fluctuations, we should publicly fund and expand the precious communication infrastructure that access media offers.

Joshua BentonMay 17, 2021

What’s the healthiest news diet? Probably traditional media, but don’t gorge yourself: Too much can leave you less informed

A new study finds that reading, watching, and breathing news all day can actually leave you less informed about politics and government than being more selective — with the right sources.

Joshua BentonSeptember 28, 2020

A new set of threats to the BBC — internal and external — challenges its role as anchor of U.K. media

The BBC functions as a heat sink for polarization — converting potentially dangerous energy into something the system can more easily deal with. A new group of broadcast competitors and its likely new set of bosses see it differently.

“The market’s failure to support journalism at a systemic level necessitates nonmarket approaches”

Hanaa' TameezDecember 11, 2019

Small experiments beat big ones, and other takeaways from BizLab’s public radio innovation summit

“Because we’ve been in a relatively protected space, I think one of the challenges is that there’s not always the urgency to change.”

Christine SchmidtApril 15, 2019

Courting future business models: Are public media and scrappy startups the next trend for mergers?

NJ Spotlight and NJTV News may be onto a trend: “Really the quality of the journalism and business model made it viable for us and make it viable for the other legacy stations around the country.”

A look at how foundations are helping the journalism industry stand up straight

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