This session will bring together producers and programmers from across the industry to discuss the value of events as content offerings and how to balance bandwidth and scalability through internal collaboration. Find out how stations are using multi-platform events to expand their public service mission and achieve their strategic goals.
We'll look at examples from KCUR, KUOW and Oregon Public Broadcasting to get an idea of how to manage daily news podcasts effectively.
Join this interactive workshop with Rachel Desjourdy, Accessibility Lead at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Learn how your radio content can be more accessible to all contributors and content creators. Ensure your employees experience an inclusive and accessible workspace. Consider how disability is an aspect of diversity, acknowledge common barriers, and reflect and include people with disabilities in your stories and storytelling.
This panel will cover how to recruit musicians for interviews, best practices for conducting research, maximizing interviews across platforms and enhancing the music discovery experience. This session will bring clarity and focus to your music journalism efforts.
We’ll give participants a tour through the initial launch version of the app and the launch process. We’ll discuss the future vision for the app and how it will be built to become a hub for major NPR Network priorities. Finally, we'll highlight the ways that Member stations of all sizes can best leverage the new app to connect their content with a digital audience and give participants a chance to tell us what they would like to see in this unified app - from feature requests to branding and business model ideas.
Join a panel of public media leaders who are developing more diverse content and workspaces and hear how stations can do more through a framework guided by pillars of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA). You’ll walk away with recommendations on how to use assessment and coaching to create IDEA roadmaps and knowledge to distinguish between building culture and culture enforcement and how the two interact.
In this session, a panel of leaders in Classical music and media will discuss the innovative ways they are working to address this pervasive issue. Special recorded video presentation by Lara Downes.
BBC representatives, Kate Peters (Senior News Editor) and Jon Zilkha (WS English Controller) will share what goes on behind-the-scenes at BBC News to provide war zone coverage, including deployment plans, training, and planning resources for journalists. Jeff Jones (KNOW) will share how he makes scheduling decisions for breaking news events like this to meet audience expectations.
In this session, experienced programmers will discuss their own pathways into this role and why that experience is advantageous. This conversation will help you identify strong talent and develop them into content leaders of the future.
In part of this event, KERA and PRX share their innovative collaboration to respond to drastic shifts in audience needs and behaviors with human-centered design and product methods. Learn how this whole-of-station approach has transformed KERA’s podcast and on-demand strategy and helped recalibrate its newsroom and broadcast offerings for the future.