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In this week’s 4MR podcast I look at the ambitious plan by American Public Media honcho Bill Kling to add more than 300 new reporters and editors to four local public radio newsrooms, at a funding cost of $100 million. These new reporters would be digital-first and focus on text and multimedia before radio. I spoke to Ken Doctor, who wrote a detailed article about Kling’s plan recently.
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Listen to my entire interview with Ken Doctor:
Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network.
Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:
Public Media’s $100 Million Plan – 100 Journalists Per City at Newsonomics
More details on Bill Kling’s $100 million, 100-journalists-per-city public-media plan at MinnPost
Hundreds of Well-Paid Media Jobs (Could Be) Coming to Your City! at Gawker
WBEZ, News Giant? at Chicago Reader
Report – Top Public Radio Stations Developing Plan To Increase News Staffs at AllAccess.com
MPR’s Bill Kling Steps Down – And Up – From Public Radio at Newsonomics
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Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.
4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.
