Todd Mundt

Brendan Greeley is leaving “Open Source with Christoper Lydon.” Greeley was the primary driver of a kind of deep audience engagement which was new to public radio when the show debuted. Interestingly, it’s still one of the only shows to obsessively nurture its online community - looking to it for topics, ideas, guests and opinions. To my knowledge, it’s one of the only shows where the conversation begins online even before the show exists… and where the conversation continues long after the 59 minutes is over. To paraphrase Brendan, it’s an online community that happens to have a radio show.
Greeley is going to do some consulting and will likely to move on to bigger and better things. If he leaves public media, it’s a loss for all of us. We need all the good thinking about audience engagement that we can get.