American Public Media
Summary
American Public Media is the second largest producer of public radio programs after National Public Radio. Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and operates radio stations in Minnesota, California, and Florida. Its station brands are Minnesota Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, and Classical South Florida. American Public Media (APM) is best known for the distribution of Garrison Keillor's well-known weekend program A Prairie Home Companion, still APM's most listened to and distributed program. It also produces the prominent program Marketplace.Formerly, much of American Public Media's programming content was distributed by Public Radio International, which itself was named "American Public Radio", or APR, until July 1, 1994.
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And that's the way it was: March 5, 1957
Happy birthday to Ray Suarez, one of the best known faces and voices of American public media in the last three decades. Suarez is currently a senior correspondent and co-anchor of PBS's The NewsHour. Before joining that program, Suarez hosted NPR's national call-in show, Talk of the Nation, from 1993-1999.
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Why I Left American Public Media to Start GroundTruth
At the end of September, I left American Public Media after 13 years as a reporter and co-founder of the Public Insight Network. I have three young kids. I had a good job in an industry where good jobs are scarce and getting scarcer. I could have worked there for years and been engaged intellectually and worked with mission-driven, smart folks.
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Dick Costolo says being the ‘second screen’ is the future of Twitter
As Twitter has been evolving over the past year or so — an evolution that has caused some upheaval in the company’s ecosystem of developers and power users, many of whom seem to feel slighted by Twitter’s behavior — it hasn’t always been clear what Twitter wanted to be when it grew up.
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SoundCloud expands its effort to become the YouTube of public radio and podcasts
SoundCloud is arguably the biggest music-sharing community since MySpace, but now the company is eyeing a different kind of audio: the spoken word.
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Could Kickstarter be used to crowdfund journalism?
Under increasing financial pressure from the web and the decline of print advertising, newspapers and other traditional media outlets have been laying off staff and trying to fill the gap with services such as Journatic — the hyper-local aggregator that uses offshore workers — or simply doing without things like copy editors.
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My (Thwarted) Plan as the New York Times' Public Editor
About six weeks ago, I got a phone call out of the blue from a New York Times editor who told me that I had been recommended to be a candidate for the open Public Editor job at the Times. My first reaction (outside of shock) was to be honored that they would consider me, but I also felt pretty satisfied running three websites for PBS.
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NPR Looks to New Shows Like ‘Ask Me Another’
NPR looks to new shows like “Ask Me Another” in its search for a younger audience.
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Public Insight Network: How the Symphony of Collaboration Will Play Out
Nearly 10 years ago, the Public Insight Network began as an experiment in radically improving journalism by harnessing the intelligence and expertise of the audience. We started simply, at MPR News, but soon began to open up the network to partners, and in so doing, asked journalists a simple question: Will you open up to collaborate with the public, and with other newsrooms?.
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Changes in journalism this week: Career moves, bear death
JOB CHANGES: • Emily Steel has been named US media and marketing correspondent at the Financial Times. She was a social media editor at The Wall Street Journal.
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David Cohn: ‘Spot.Us is no longer the best place for me’
DigiDave David Cohn has decided to leave Spot. Us four months after the crowdfunded journalism site became part of American Public Media’s crowdsourcing platform, Public Insight Network. When APM took it over, Cohn had planned to stay involved in a… Read more.
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