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Junk media thrives on outrage, repetition, and distraction. It feeds us what we already believe, exasperates what we already fear. It is easy to consume, hard to digest, and ultimately corrosive to our capacity to connect with each other. It has no allegiance to the truth at all. -
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Before there was PBS or NPR, before the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, there were national education networks for radio and television. -
In a media landscape driven by clickbait, it’s public media that highlights humanity — especially when it comes to schools, which can be the first building blocks of a more equitable society.
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The distance between power and precarity in this field is not just unjust, it is unsustainable. Those of us with connections and resources have to help close it. We need to radically expand who gets to tell the stories that define us, and where those stories come from. -
With cuts to mental health services and the erosion of DEI work on the horizon, public media matters more than ever before. It’s about uncovering challenges, highlighting solutions, and providing a platform for those who don’t get the coverage they deserve from mainstream media. -
At KALW, we build on the foundations of journalism, while being unafraid to try new things — always asking, why? When we shift our practices slightly we create space for new ideas and new questions that help us challenge our assumptions about what we do. -
This period in KALW’s history has been transformative. But the new opportunity we have at The Warfield Commons will be exponentially greater. -
How limited resources inspired KALW’s new programming model and how other stations could employ it. -
Too often, we identify the right conversation—about justice, belonging, democracy, equity—but elevate too narrow a slice of expertise to lead it. -
Narrative plentitude can cultivate understanding, which plants seeds of healing that break harmful cycles of exploitation and abuse. -
Our approach to journalism is not just innovative in the voices it amplifies, it’s also innovative in the way it is helping shape the industry. -
During this turbulent time in our country, I am once again reminded of the importance of artists. -
As America faces crises of democracy, economic collapse, and growing authoritarianism, the old models of philanthropic investment are no longer just ineffective—they’re dangerous.
