News/Talk: April 2024
Reminders
BBC Topline Promos
New BBC Topline promos are now available in ContentDepot. They can be downloaded in the Promotional Materials section.
Spring Fundraisers
Spring fundraisers are now available on Content Depot. Follow the links below:
- BBC Newshour
- Marketplace
- Marketplace Morning Report
- Marketplace Tech
- The Daily
- On Point
- Splendid Table
Five New Call to Mind Specials for May Mental Health Awareness Month
Join Call to Mind for a new Mental Health Awareness Series for May Mental Health Awareness Month. Host Kimberly Adams guides you through five new episodes exploring emerging issues and research on vital issues in mental health. Each hour features compelling interviews with top experts, the voices of people living with mental illness, and sound-rich stories from across the country. Read more here.
Titles in the series:
- The Homelessness Crisis and Mental Health
- The Burden of Being
- Incarcerated with Mental Illness
- Schizophrenia: Finding Hope on a Hard Road
- Birth and Depression: The Unspoken Conversation
APM Presents: April Specials
Check out our specials for Earth Day and more.
How We Survive: The Worth of Water
Available now – June 30, 2024
Witness History: The Environment
Available now – April 30, 2024
California Love: K-Pop Dreaming – Moon Night
Available now – May 31, 2024
The Poetry Café
Available now – June 30, 2024
Community Science Unifies Us Around Climate Change
Available now – April 30, 2024
How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong**
Available now – June 30, 2024
**How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong is now available in Spanish. Contact your APM Rep for more information if you’d like to broadcast the Spanish-language version**For our full list of specials please visit our APM Presents homepage.
BBC’s Unexpected Elements now on ContentDepot
By popular demand, the BBC’s new fun and engaging one-hour science program is now available on Content Depot for your automating ease! Satisfy your listeners requests for MORE SCIENCE with Unexpected Elements — The news you know, the science you don’t. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. Listen to a sample episode here. This program is included as part of your BBC subscription.
Localized Reporting with Marketplace and APM Research Labs
Over the last several months, the APM Research Lab and Marketplace teamed up with APM Distribution to test the viability of a project we’ve internally code-named MERLEN– Marketplace Easily Reportable Localized Economic Numbers.
Starting with employment data from the monthly jobs and unemployment report, this project automates analysis of national data and puts the local data in national context. We then provide script-ready analysis of the information tailored to local markets for use by local stations for web stories, social media and on-air. Over the next several months we intend to expand to other data sets, possibly including housing starts, gross domestic product, poverty rates, and inflation reports.
Our beta group includes KNOW, KCFR, KPCC/LAist, WGCU and WVXU. Recently, WGCU published this article with the data MERLEN provided. We’re thrilled to contribute to local reporting in this way and hope to expand the program to include more station participants. If you are interested in learning more, let your Station Relations Rep know.
Welcome Additions
- WLTR – BBC Unexpected Elements
- WXXI – BBC Newshour
- WHYY – BBC The Arts Hour
- WVIK – BBC Newshour
- WYPR – BBC The Newsroom
- WTJZ – BBC Newshour
- KERA – BBC The Arts Hour