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It’s that nobody has been able to figure out how to refocus an organization toward an entirely different audience, potentially alienating the one it has in favor of one it hasn’t. I’ve never met anyone in public radio leadership who doesn’t fully understand already what Henn has pointed out. It’s not that the leadership doesn’t know the challenges. That’s the problem with mass media people want to be paid for what they provide. There’s a reason why public radio is in - as Henn calls it - the “white, upper-middle class ghetto it has created for itself.” That’s where the money is that funds the whole operation. It’s hard to provide a great listener experience when you’re broke. But advertisers have noticed, too, that listenership has changed and they’re spending their money elsewhere too.
That required advertiser money or some sort of funding scheme. People want to be paid for working, for one thing. And so I did, and life was awful because I found out there’s a lot more to public radio - any kind of listening, really - besides the listener experience. I was one of the people working at a major network once who lamented that if I only could run my own radio station, life would be good. Our workplaces are a lot easier to figure out and run when we’re not the ones running them. The newsroom crowd is pretty good at citing the problems. It’s also true that radio newspeople historically are pretty ignorant about the business of radio. Unquestionably, listening habits are challenging public radio. My ideal digital radio, it would listen to the audience. It would help public radio break out of the white, upper-middle class ghetto it has created for itself. The digital radio I want would make it easier to support great work. We are all listening to stories differently than we once did.Īnd so far no one has built the kick-ass digital radio that I want. People, and not just millennials, are changing how we listen. The biggest threat to NPR - and the 900+ member stations that are the life-blood of the public radio system - is that this big beautiful crazy system may not get its act together to make the jump into the digital age. And no, the biggest threat is not that Republicans in Congress will cut its funding. Stephen Henn, NPR’s technology correspondent, is the latest NPR staffer to quit, citing its inevitable downfall, he writes on today. The chances are that NPR will continue on too. Someone doesn’t want to work somewhere anymore, quits, and then bares the faults of the workplace with the suggestion that its time is up.Īlmost always, the workplace continues on without the aggrieved party, though its challenges are great. You’ve probably seen them from time to time.
The social media landscape has given rise to a new art form: the “why I quit” treatise.
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