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PRX gets a mention in the New York Times piece on public radio's hunt for new talent and new audiences. Public radio “had an enormous surge in listening over about a 10-year period from the mid ’90s up through about 2003, principally driven by a huge response to public radio’s news and information programming,” said Tom Thomas, co-chief executive officer of the Station Resource Group, a public radio consortium. But since 2003 “the audience has essentially been flat,” he said. To address this,

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/04/11/cambridge_nonprofit_wins_macarthur_award/ Cambridge nonprofit wins MacArthur award By Clea Simon, Globe Correspondent | April 11, 2008 The Cambridge-based Public Radio Exchange will receive one of eight 2008 MacArthur Awards for Creative and Effective Institutions, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced yesterday. PRX, as the Cambridge nonprofit is called, serves as an Internet clearinghouse for radio producers and public r

Public Radio Exchange, a marketplace and forum for radio pieces intended to increase accessibility to work that might otherwise be unknown, won a $500,000 grant from the McArthur foundation. "The foundation has previously supported PRX with two grants, viewing the small nonprofit as "an ingenious model of harnessing technology to bring more diverse, high-quality content into radio." PRX, which was launched in 2002, allows aspiring producers, stations, and individuals to sample and critique a

Playwright: Al Letson February 27th, 2008 Al Letson is actually a lot more than just a playwright. He’s an accomplished poet, having performed on Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry on HBO, an actor, a writer, and the winner of the National Public Radio Talent Quest. I photographed Al so he could update his publicity shots for some upcoming projects which include a play and film festival. Filed in Actors, Headshot/Promo

Discussing Content Management Systems The first presenter, Jeremy Roberts (who worked on the PBS Flickr Factory) presents a detailed description of Zope 3. He points out that Zope 3 is a complete rewrite of Zope 2 (if you mention Zope 2 Jeremy will literally wince. Zope 3 is that significant of a departure). He points out that many lessons were learned in creating and building zope, and that after four years of testing Zope 3 has been released with dramatic and fundamental improvements. I don’

With a big helping hand from John Barth PRX Executive Director Jake Shapiro wrote a piece for Current, the public broadcasting publication, taking a look back at the Talent Quest for some lessons learned: Nearly two years ago CPB issued an intriguing challenge called “The Public Radio Talent Quest”: find three new on-air hosts and develop pilot shows that showcase their talent. PRX proposed an online contest, inviting anyone to submit a two minute audio audition and giving the audience a voi

The Public Radio Exchange has announced their Zeitfunk winners for 2007. They write: "The Zeitfunk results are in! 2007 was a truly exciting year for PRX. More pieces were licensed by stations in 2007 than any previous year: over 8,000. PRX attracted 14,079 new members, and racked up over 1,000 new reviews. Thousands of public radio fans helped us find three of the "hostiest" new talents through the Public Radio Talent Quest. And we re-launched the Generation PRX site so it's more interactiv

Zeitfunk 2007 Genevieve, 02.01.08 The Zeitfunk results are in! 2007 was a truly exciting year for PRX. More pieces were licensed by stations in 2007 than any previous year: over 8,000. PRX attracted 14,079 new members, and racked up over 1,000 new reviews. Thousands of public radio fans helped us find three of the "hostiest" new talents through the Public Radio Talent Quest. And we re-launched the Generation PRX site so it's more interactive and encourages social networking among the dozen

The Zeitfunk results are in! 2007 was a truly exciting year for PRX. More pieces were licensed by stations in 2007 than any previous year: over 8,000. PRX attracted 14,079 new members, and racked up over 1,000 new reviews. Thousands of public radio fans helped us find three of the "hostiest" new talents through the Public Radio Talent Quest. And we re-launched the Generation PRX site so it's more interactive and encourages social networking among the dozens of youth radio groups already par

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