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“The very idea of collectively tuning in to history as it happens has been altered, as the profusion of channels and platforms now funnels audience members into self-segregated affinity groups where messages are shaped more for confirmation than enlightenment.”
“Local public radio has a staffing problem. Stations have considerable potential but aren’t yet in a position to make it happen.”
“During the pandemic, we made all of our content free to smaller, community radio stations that don’t have a news budget.”
It’s a fitting change to make near the end of Jarl Mohn’s time as NPR CEO, where he’s breathed new life into radio shows some thought had dim prospects for growth.
“Forming a relationship with people on their speakers in the kitchen may make it easier to form a relationship with them on their headphones and in their cars.”
“News on smart speakers is not living up to the promise of what it could be.”
“You can’t bridge mainstream to community media when the community doesn’t have the ability to present their reporting.”
While more women are taking on leadership roles in radio and TV, fewer people of color are working in radio and TV is nowhere near representative.
Now KCRW wants to make the station more local to Berlin and less about American programming. FYI, “totebag” in German is Tragetasche.