News/Talk APM Monthly July 2024

News/Talk: July 2024

Thank You

APM’s pricing season and fiscal year closed on June 30th. Thank you for choosing APM. We are grateful for your loyal support of our programming and look forward to serving you and your audiences in FY25!

On Point’s Week of Wonder: July 22 – 26, 2024

On Point heard from many enthusiastic listeners last year about how much they enjoyed and appreciated the Week of Wonder in which they let awe inspire us. It seemed to be perfect summer break listening…so they’re doing it again. On July 22-26, join Host Meghna Chakrabarti to explore what captivates our mind, illuminates our humanity and both delights and confounds us. It might just be the audio tonic for our times.

Digital assets for the series are available to download here.

Marketplace News & Awards

Marketplace reporter Savannah Maher won first place at the Indigenous Media Awards for Best Radio News Story “Who is the Indian Arts and Crafts Act supposed to protect?” and second place for Best Feature Story “Indigenous creatives are blazing trails in the gaming industry”.

Listener Kudos: “You have found a very effective way to make financial discussions entertaining, informative, and relevant. Rather than tell the listener what to think about a situation, you provide the data and resources that allow the listener to grasp the concepts and draw their own informed conclusions. Put it all together and you have the definition of great “education.” As a professional educator, I congratulate and thank you.” -Mark in LA

“Consistently excellent business/economic journalism, such as the deep dive into employment stimulus prospects from CHIPS Act (and the entire “Government in the Economy” series).”-Stephen in Sherman Oaks, CA

Marketplace Morning Report
Listen this month as Lee Hawkins continues to cover reparations on Marketplace Morning Report as part of the Golden Promises series.

Marketplace PM
Listen to Marketplace’s delightful series My Analog Life — from hand-drawn draft work to typewriters and letters with stamps, it’s a glimpse of how we used to work.

BBC World Service

Don’t forget to check out our two new programs available now in ContentDepot:

  • Topline Zero: Like Toplines 1-6, it is a 1:29 feed of the world’s most important unfolding stories, curated for U.S. audiences and made to complement your schedule and the Morning Edition® clock. Available from 5:18-5:52 am ET Monday through Friday. To learn more, visit apmdistribution.org
  • Unexpected Elements: Satisfy your listeners’ requests for MORE SCIENCE with Unexpected Elements– The news you know, the science you don’t. This fun and engaging science program looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. This program is included as part of your BBC subscription.

APM Presents: July Specials

New for July

Continuing in July

For our full list of specials please visit our APM Presents homepage.

Marketplace and APM Research Labs Offer Localized Reporting

The APM Research Lab, Marketplace and APM Distribution are testing 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

  • KCFR – Marketplace Tech