In my role as a reporter for Current, the trade newspaper about public broadcasting, I often wrote about various efforts within public media to reach a more diverse audience. “Diverse” often serves as shorthand for “racially diverse,” but people in public radio (my particular beat) also invoked the buzzword when talking about attracting younger listeners, [...]

The Public Media Corps is entering its home stretch, and I’m kind of stunned to realize how quickly it’s gone by. In some ways, it feels like we’re just getting started on what needs to be done. With any luck, Dec. 31 won’t mark the end of some of the projects we’ve launched. One of [...]

 A few weeks ago I learned that my high school, DC Met, has become an outpost of Roadtrip Nation. At the time I hadn’t heard of Roadtrip Nation, and I’m willing to bet most of DC Met’s students hadn’t either. It’s a nationwide project focused on helping people figure out what they want to [...]