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Showing posts with label broadcasters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broadcasters. Show all posts
Sunday, June 18, 2023

North Country Public Radio wins 3 Sigma Delta Chi awards; coverage of wildfires, prisons, Uvalde shooting also win

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A disabled mother and daughter in northern New York lived in this tent and in their car. (North Country Public Radio) Several of the Sigma D...
Friday, June 09, 2023

To regular listeners of NPR, Wade Goodwyn needed no introduction, with his rich, deep Texas bass; he's dead at 63

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Wade Goodwyn (NPR photo) Wade Goodwyn, whose deep, rich Texas bass made him one of the most distinctive voices on the national radio landsca...
Friday, May 19, 2023

ABC News spent a year in Uvalde, Texas, after the school shooting; its report is on the air tonight and Hulu tomorrow

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Nicco Quiñones of ABC News films inside the home of Jerry and Veronica Mata. Their daughter Tess, pictured on the wall, was one of 19 studen...
Friday, May 12, 2023

News-media roundup: Washington state helps local media; States Newsroom opens its 33rd outlet there . . .

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Rob Manch of WFMZ-TV in Allentown, Pa., investigated a coal-mine fire. See below. (WFMZ image via Poynter) Washington’s legislature has app...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Award-winning NPR affiliate struggles with state university overseers about investigative reporting on public figures

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Rural West Kentucky has "an award-winning public radio news department struggling with administrators, particularly Murray State Unive...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Fox News hosts seem to make the case that they acted with malice, Mississippi Press Association executive opines

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By Layne Bruce The first time I recall hearing the phrase “absence of malice” was from a film of that title released in 1981 starring Paul ...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Iowa GOP bars Cedar Rapids station from election-night event; news director suspects it's payback for fact-checks

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This ad, designed to look like "Iowa News" coverage, also accused Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek of failing to prevent van...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Central Illinois radio station adds misinformation to the mix

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A radio station in Normal, Ill., has merged activism and coverage, organizing protests and pushing back against criticism of the Jan. 6 atta...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Conservative radio net reaches 'deep into parts of America that don't engage with most mainstream media outlets'

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Salem Media Group , a publicly traded company based in Texas, has turned into a "conservative media juggernaut" as its big-name ra...
Monday, October 17, 2022

TV stations awash in money from ads; will they do anything to mitigate the campaigns' misleading of viewers/voters?

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Graph by Bloomberg News shows revenue projections for major local-TV companies. "Political ads are rolling in at a record pace at TV st...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Gray TV sets new $18 minimum wage for non-contract staff

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Gray Television announced this week a new company-wide minimum wage of $18 an hour for "essentially all full-time, non-commissioned an...
Monday, August 15, 2022

W.Va. radio show is often Manchin's first stop because of host's integrity, canny questioning, and broad rural reach

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Hoppy Kercheval In an evenly divided Senate, moderate Democrat Joe Manchin plays the key role in passing top-priority Democratic legislation...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Iowa weekly reports on local native who was journalist but runs on Trump's vote-fraud lie for Ariz. governor, and leads

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Kari Lake ( Screenshot of part of North Scott Press website) UPDATE, Aug. 4: The Associated Press called the race for Lake, who faces Democ...
Thursday, July 07, 2022

Rural radio talk-show hosts emphasize info, not ideology

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Don Neagle at WRUS-AM/FM in Russellville, Ky. When most Americans hear the phrase "talk radio," they probably think of right-winge...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Pressure mounts for radio station in suburban Kansas City to stop broadcasting Kremlin-funded propaganda

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"As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, so do broadcasts of what critics decry as Kremlin-funded propaganda on KCXL , a radio st...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Local meteorologists are trusted sources on climate issue

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Many Americans don't believe in anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change, or in climate change, period, but local TV meteorologists a...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Bipartisan Senate bill would protect small rural TV stations from being bumped off air by big stations' interference

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A new bipartisan bill in Congress aims to strengthen protections for small, rural television stations. The Low Power Protection Act, introdu...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Western Kentucky radio station keeps locals informed, helps community heal after last week's deadly tornadoes

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WPKY station owner Beth Mann helps keep Princeton locals informed in the aftermath of last week's deadly storms. ( Poynter Institute  ph...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Founder of Christian television network that discourages coronavirus vaccination dies from Covid-19

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Marcus Lamb of Daystar Marcus Lamb, the founder of Christian TV network Daystar , died of Covid-19 Tuesday. A spokesperson would not say whe...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Quick hits: Invading armadillos, in search of Appalachian-friendly therapy; National Grange reelects president

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email heather.c...