Update

Preparing for the post-broadcast future

• WGBH in Boston will engage millennials by repurposing its award-winning “Frontline” series to a short-form web version.
• The Public Media Company is developing Channel  X, a marketplace where public broadcasters can license content aimed at younger audiences.
• In 2013, NPR secured funding to enhance its on-demand digital listening platform for public programming.
• The Detroit public radio station WDET, Detroit Public Television, Michigan Radio and New Michigan Media are joining the Detroit Journalism Cooperative to share stories aimed at helping find solutions to the city’s financial crisis.
• Boston’s WBUR public radio will launch BizLab, a team that will experiment and report new revenue strategies to increase future sustainability.
• Knight is funding digital design training for journalists at Miami’s WLRN public radio.