Creative PR

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.

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