On Friday night, April 30, join Planatary Radio host Mat Kaplan as he moderates a discussion with Emily Lakdawalla, Bruce Betts and special guests Jeff Richichi, NASA/JPL pioneer James Burke and featured guest Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Planetary Radio is the weekly public radio series about space exploration produced by the Planetary Society, the world’s largest space interest group. You won’t want to miss what promises to be a fun and informative evening.
Presented by Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), a member-supported public radio network that operates 89.3 KPCC-FM in Los Angeles 89.1, KUOR-FM in the Inland Empire and 90.3 KPCV in the Coachella Valley.
The event takes place at the Mohn Broadcast Center & Crawford Family Forum in Pasadena.
This is a free event, but space is limited. To RSVP, visit scpr.org/forum
Barret Golding has created a new website called PubMedia Commons!
PubMedia Commons is a place to share code & community, to meet & mashup public media matters.
- PubMedia Code— a collection of hacks, scripts and other bit-twists. Open to anyone with a passion for public media.
- Weekly Features— Selected pieces by public media producers: audio, video, and interactive.
Check it out! PubMedia Commons is a great place to find all your public media news and happenings!
The CPB backed Los Angeles service managed by Radio Bilingue targeting the 25 – 40 year listeners of color is making 
plans to begin distributing its content via the web in July reports Current, the trade publication of public broadcasting.
Full story – http://www.current.org/diversity/diversity1006-lapm.shtml
Behind the scene videos of Stories from L.A. Public Media –
Encourage your audience to Go Green with Daily, Weekly, and Special environmental programs from Creative PR
One-Hour SPECIAL
HEAT OF THE MOMENT: INSIDE OUT — A new WBUR Documentary for the Inside Out series. First hand accounts from across the globe and expert analysis present a new and unique perspective on global warming. Science journalist Daniel Grossman takes us to places where the effects of climate change are acutely felt: Visit the Catacombs of Paris during a deadly heat wave, India’s Sunderbans jungle and the rising sea, and South Africa with scientists engineering food to survive with less water.
LENGTH: 59 minutes
AVAILABLE: PRX, Content Depot, CD
WEEKLY 30 Minute PROGRAM
BIONEERS: Revolution From The Heart Of Nature — An award-winning series of half-hours promoting practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. Since 1990, the Bioneers organization has held annual scientific conferences based on the premise that we are moving from the Information Age to the Biology Age, in which environmental issues will shape all others. The Bioneers radio shows feature the leading scientific and social innovators of our time bringing all the drama and optimism of these conferences to life. 15 new shows yearly plus 91 archived.
LENGTH: 28:30
AVAILABLE: Content Depot, CDs, and FTP Downloads (request info)
COST: FREE
LISTEN: 2009 Series
DAILY 90 Second MODULE
ISLA EARTH — A radio series that explores today’s most important challenges to the environment and impressive successes in conservation. These entertaining, science-based, modules encourage ecological awareness, deepen understanding of our natural world, and encourage environmentally sustainable choices. Produced by the Catalina Island Conservancy.
LENGTH: 90 seconds
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: CD, mp2, and Podcast
LISTEN
Jake Shapiro
Jake Shapiro of PRX (Public Radio Exchange) responds to Barrett Golding’s article about independent distribution on the PRX Blog.
Jake said:
“With tens of thousands of programs churning through PRX it is a constant puzzle to get the best stuff up and out. We use a mix of smart humans (PRX editors, curators, commenters) and smart machines (search, metadata, collaborative filtering and recommendations) to do it. We recognized early on that PRX would need to exercise editorial discretion to be valuable and relevant to stations and audiences, and fulfill our mission of surfacing new and compelling voices for public radio.”
Check out the full response here.
