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Jul 20, 2018
When the Music Stops You from Watching
 Loud background noises pose a particular challenge for public media programming  
Jul 05, 2018
New Jersey Deserves What It Got
 New Jersey sets aside $5 million for the Civic Information Consortium  
Jun 20, 2018
A Hat Tip for This Reporter’s Tweets
 PBS NewsHour correspondent Lisa Desjardins manages a robust Twitter feed that steers clear of cynicism or snarkiness while adding discrete information
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Jun 07, 2018
Vaulting Into the Digital-First News Space
 By re-launching Gothamist, LAist and DCist, public radio stations get a significant leg up in online local news  
May 21, 2018
Just Because We Can – Should We? Revisiting Narrative Collateral Damage
 To what extent does accuracy and the pursuit of a bigger story trump empathy? 
May 04, 2018
Hard to Find:  Local News Expansion
 In a hopeful sign for local news, WLVT-TV (PBS39) is hiring 12 journalists to cover in-depth community news in its Lehigh Valley area, just north of Philadelphia.
Apr 24, 2018
The News Next Door
The educational challenge of news in the public interest
Apr 03, 2018
Parkland Spring and Public Media
Diversity as a core value for millennials 
Mar 29, 2018
PC Without Politics
Obituaries, euphemisms and hard truths 
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