Converge

Diane Mermigas has a great piece exploring ways for public media to monetize its content and generate new revenues - something a lot of us are thinking about… well, right about now.
Her strong opening line: Nonprofit public media–and most especially public broadcasting–will embrace interactive Web tools that connect companies, producers and distributors of content and [...]

… to write here about everything that’s been going on, although if you check out the Iowa Public Radio blog, you can see that my spare blogging time has been focused there.
NPR News has been here for several days in preparation for everything. Steve Inskeep, Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Neal Conan flew in ahead [...]

Actually, it’s been a year and a few weeks. Time flies by and it feels like it’s been moving at  a much faster pace the past twelve months.
It’s been an exciting, and occasionally unnerving period of change. We’re still in the middle of the change, but we’re beginning to see external signs of success. Membership [...]

One of our classical stations, KHKE 89.5 Cedar Falls-Waterloo, is off the air today after the collapse of the tower in this weekend’s storm. I’ve blogged the details here.
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Iowa Public Radio announced to staff and to the media today that it will be creating a unified News and Information Service on January 1, 2007. We also presented the staff with their first official view of the new program schedule for the News stations today. The schedule will go public on the Iowa Public [...]

Iowa Public Radio’s blog goes “live” today.
I know I’ve been uncharacteristically quiet here, but that’s been for two reasons: lots of work preparing for Iowa Public Radio’s consolidation of the stations, and the work preparing this new outlet for communicating with our audience.
Iowa Public Radio is embarking on a project that’s going to involve lots [...]