Newsonomic's Ken Doctor on Public Radio's Big Reporting Plans: Hiring 100 Journalists Per Market Across U.S.

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By: Ken Doctor

Four leading public radio stations have meeting frequently, forming an ad hoc “alliance for public media,” and they’ve got big plans. The largest notion: Expand regional “public media” news operations to 100 reporters and editors per market in four to six markets — and soon. That’s “public radio” grown into “public media”, meaning that these news operations would be digital-first, text-heavy and video-ready, while porting over the audio from radio. In other words, not re-purposed “radio” news, but the kind of standalone, multi-platform news operations we’re starting to see, as with TBD in Washington, D.C.

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