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“We are not completely reliant on advertising money to be able to make compelling narrative journalism. … We really are uniquely positioned, and we should be taking full advantage of that right now.”

In creating “Refugee’s Daughter” Christina Le followed her boss’ advice to “start with something you know.”

Airing Monday on PBS, "Fanny: The Right to Rock" examines what it meant to be women — some of whom were queer and/or Filipino-American — struggling for respect at a time when a girl with a guitar was still considered a novelty.

"Being in the digital space has allowed us to promote how plants and people connect," says Terri James, the show's social media coordinator.

“Our newsroom is creating all this work, and it didn’t make sense that we weren’t actually taking some of that work and putting it up in the podcast realm,” says Ave Carrillo, WNYC's EP of local podcasts.

"Clearly, the path to diversifying audiences for our organizations involves a robust digital strategy in addition to making our radio programming welcoming to listeners from all backgrounds and ethnicities," writes the leader of Classical KING FM.

Through a content-sharing partnership that launched in 2013, OPB's newsroom is helping newspapers deliver valuable coverage to their readers.

“We need to give people hope, because there's so much just negativity.” 

The station in Syracuse, N.Y., has started a stream of programs "about local people, local perspectives and positive stories about the community."

The deal with Hulu continues PBS’ efforts to make its programs accessible to people who don’t watch broadcast television.