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Social Relevance And Innovation In Public Radio, Malak Habbak
Social Relevance And Innovation In Public Radio, Malak Habbak
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
Since its founding, National Public Radio has been denied steady funding by the government and has therefore been focused and reliant on its audience for funding. This study explores National Public Radio’s (NPR) efforts to appeal to audiences by staying relevant and innovative in the face of changing technology and new media. The study content analyzes five years of news media coverage of NPR stations for news values and key messages. Out of 1,853 articles that were analyzed, about 23 percent were related to the stations’ efforts to remain socially relevant and innovative. Those articles were then examined using descriptive …
The New Economic Reality: Creating A Regional Mindset, Susan Sciame-Giesecke
The New Economic Reality: Creating A Regional Mindset, Susan Sciame-Giesecke
Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences
Today, one of the key challenges facing community leaders across the country is to build an innovative, prosperous economy to provide jobs and a quality of life for those within their communities. Leaders in each city work hard to attract new businesses and to help those existing businesses successfully compete. Unfortunately, many of these leaders have come to learn that today’s economy is too complex for a single city to master. They have begun to move beyond their local communities and to think of themselves as a part of regional efforts because regions are more competitive in scale and assets …