It’s every politics editor’s mission: figure out how to make election coverage more accessible and interesting to people you’re trying to serve, with the staff you currently employ. It can be hard for ...

Mike has held the role of digital editor since 2014. Before becoming editor, he covered public radio and digital initiatives in public media for Current. Mike has also written for a variety of ...

Radio Ambulante Studios received funding this year to convene new Listening Clubs focused on issues of importance to Latino voters.

Public broadcasting in the U.S. has grown from local and regional roots at schools and universities into a nationally known source of news and entertainment for millions of listeners and viewers. Our ...

How much does your state spend on public media? Which states spend the most and least per resident? And where does the money go? Our comprehensive guide tracks and explains appropriations to public ...

We’ve spent the last five years using our perspective as scientists and funders not only to figure out why exceptional independent creators make the things they make, but to create an ecosystem that ...

Audience analyst Dave Sullivan has been trying to “sound the alarm” about public radio’s declining cume ratings, a key metric for station fundraising and sustainability. The average weekly cume for ...

What’s this “public media” about, anyway? It’s worth asking once in a while, when considering its mission: what the public needs and what public media are best equipped to do. From inside the field ...

I can’t imagine how people fed and clothed themselves before the Internet, let alone how they reported stories. But I’m envious of one aspect of pre–digital age journalism: that moment when ...

Julie Drizin has served as executive director of Current since 2015. Julie previously served as Director of the Journalism Center on Children and Families at the University of Maryland’s Philip ...

It is rare for everyone in public radio to agree on anything. In 2000, I was asked to put together a PRPD session on “The Truths of Public Radio.” That request followed several years of significant ...

Current’s first study of executive compensation and financial reporting in public media examined the most recent financial documents available for 85 public television and radio stations in the top 25 ...