When the NPR show Planet Money wanted to put together a project about the economic life-cycle of a T-shirt, Kickstarter seemed like the natural approach — and it showed how much crowdfunding has in common with public media. Read more »
Comparing a traditional news story about a recent shooting with a news report from a Reddit user — who pulled together Twitter messages from the perpetrators and victims — provides a glimpse of what a real-time, crowdsourced newsroom of the future might look like. Read more at GigaOM »
Some e-book buyers embrace a little friction, says Joe Esposito at The Scholarly Kitchen. Read more »
They’re app-happy over at NPR these days, with over 1 million people having downloaded the organization’s iPad app over the last year and pl… Read more »
Amid a debate over federal funding, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller used the National Press Club stage Monday to try to focus attention on the publi… Read more »
Remember the great Free Vs Paid debate of 2010? Here, NPR reporter David Folkenflik digs in to Times Newspapers’ strategy… Read more »
The other day I saw a mention of a survey respondent complaining that NPR is too wordy. Maybe someone can track her down and offer the URL t… Read more »
NPR promised to launch its $3 million local journalism effort Project Argo this summer and it’s making the deadline with days to spare. The… Read more »
Some intriguing details from NPR about when listeners tune in for its programming — and what platforms they use. For instance, the iPhone a… Read more »
Although NPR’s identity will always revolve around “audio,” the introduction of mobile apps has made it more of general news organization th… Read more »
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has committed nearly $1 million for five national public media orgs to build a common digital platfo… Read more »
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller had some fun showing off new NPR ‘products’ in the pipeline. If you follow NPR, odds are you’ll enjoy the video embe… Read more »
NPR CEO Vivian Schiller — the only woman speaker featured here this year — wowed the tough D8 crowd with a witty video featuring various n… Read more »
The funding is still being finalized but NPR is putting the pieces in place for a summer launch of its ambitious local news effort, known in… Read more »
NPR’s relaunch of its mobile web site and the release of its Android mobile app this week are part of a larger strategy designed to ensure t… Read more »
Stephen Moss has been named president and CEO of National Public Media, the national corporate sponsorship firm for NPR, PBS and Boston publ… Read more »
When Vivian Schiller took the job as CEO of NPR, she told paidContent she thought NPR was uniquely positioned in hyperlocal: “Big news organ… Read more »
National Public Radio is already a leader in podcasting. But a free NPR News iPhone app that launched Saturday night opens up a new dimensio… Read more »
On the internet, any media outlet can overcome its single-dimension status offline. Print outlets can excel in video, local TV stations can… Read more »
The Public Radio Exchange has just released the 2.0 version of its iPhone app, which aggregates almost all the public radio stations in the… Read more »
