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“Black Folk Don’t…” and the Power of Irony 6 Jun 2012 | 09:33 pm
By Guest Blogger: Nonso Christian Ugbode, Director of Digital Media at National Black Programming Consortium, iMA member organization In 2011 BlackPublicMedia.org launched the "Black Folk Don't…"...
The Innovator’s Dilemma: Why “Sell” Isn’t A Four-Letter Word 18 Apr 2012 | 01:30 am
By Guest Blogger: Tammy Carpowich, Director of Interactive Strategy at KPBS in San Diego and iMA Board Member One of the biggest challenges we have as innovators isn’t necessarily the innovation itse...
5 Lessons for Public Media from SXSW 16 Mar 2012 | 02:58 pm
By Amanda Hirsch As I catch my breath after a week in Austin, I wanted to share five key takeaways from SXSW for my public media brethren. These lessons are distilled from festival speakers and sessi...
iMA Conference 2012: From Rock Stars to Pep Talks 10 Mar 2012 | 04:31 pm
By Amanda Hirsch PBS stations need to be locavores, said Allen Weiner, VP of Research at Gartner, at the breakfast that opened this year's iMA conference. "I want farm to table content." Station...
The Public Media Accelerator: A New Path Forward for Public Media? 15 Feb 2012 | 05:47 am
By Amanda Hirsch The new Public Media Accelerator from PRX and the Knight Foundation is a fascinating concept, and if it works, it could reinvigorate public media and help position us for long-term s...
Localore: Producer-Driven Innovation at Stations 4 Feb 2012 | 09:07 am
By Amanda Hirsch Localore is a $2 million initiative from AIR (Association of Independents in Radio) that is attempting to fuel long-term innovation at stations, with producers as the engine oil. Sp...
Crowdfunding Public Media 26 Jan 2012 | 05:01 am
By Amanda Hirsch Need $40,000 to produce a local documentary? Just ask your audience. That's what filmmaker Sam Mayfield did, for a film she's working on about last year's protests in Ma...
Public Media Games: Playing With Our Mission 13 Jan 2012 | 08:50 am
Public media takes itself pretty seriously. But what if the best way to deliver on our mission wasn't through seriousness, but through play? By Amanda Hirsch Public media takes itself pretty ser...
New Year, New Innovation? A Wish List for Public Media in 2012 22 Dec 2011 | 05:56 am
What's the #1 innovation that's needed in public media in 2012? I posed that question to the public media group on Facebook, as well as to some additional colleagues via email. The responses ...
Highlights: Crowd-sourcing Public Media 16 Dec 2011 | 06:13 am
Public media is known for the exemplary journalism it produces, among other things (Masterpiece Theater... tote bags...). But increasingly, we're also known for the ways in which we include the pu...
