As a public media entity, Nashville Public Radio makes every effort to be as transparent as possible in order to comply with The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Below you will find documents and information related to Nashville Public Radio’s contact, governance, management, finances, meetings and diversity initiatives.
FCC PUBLIC FILE ACCESS INSTRUCTIONS
Nashville Public Radio’s representative to provide assistance for persons with disabilities can be contacted at (615) 760-2903. Nashville Public Radio’s address is: 630 Mainstream Dr., Nashville, TN 37228. The telephone number is (615) 760-2903 and email address is [email protected].
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Contact information for Nashville Public Radio
Nashville Public Radio
630 Mainstream Dr
Nashville, TN 37228
(615) 760-2003.
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Nashville Public Radio’s Board of Directors, Community Advisory Group, and Management Team are listed below, including the meeting schedules and locations.
Nashville Public Radio’s Board of Directors
Officers:
Betsy Wills (Chair)
Lucy Haynes (Vice-chair)
Steve Swenson (President/CEO)
Jeff McGruder (Finance Committee Chair)
Carol Kirshner (Governance Committee Chair)
Directors:
Richard Abramson
Samar Ali
Martin S. Brown, Jr.
Barbara Chazen
Ashlee Davis
Donna Eskind
Elissa Kim
Susan Lanigan
Patricia Meadows
Alice Ganier Rolli
Ann Shayne
Curt Thorne
Katy Varney
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OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION WITH REGARD TO COVID-19, NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO IS HOLDING ALL MEETINGS BY TELECONFERENCE UNTIL THIS MESSAGE IS REMOVED. ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO ATTEND ANY OFFICIAL MEETING OF THIS ORGANIZATION THROUGH AN AUDIO TELECONFERENCE SHOULD REQUEST DIAL-IN CREDENTIALS FROM [email protected] NO LESS THAN 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE SCHEDULED TIME OF THE MEETING.
The Board of Directors meet at 8:30 am on the following dates. The meeting location is at Nashville Public Radio, 630 Mainstream Dr., Nashville, TN 37228
February 17, 2015
April 28, 2015
June 16, 2015
August 18, 2015
October 20, 2015
December 15, 2015
February 16, 2016
April 19, 2016
June 21, 2016
August 16, 2016
October 18, 2016
December 21, 2016
February 21, 2017
April 18, 2017
June 20, 2017
August 15, 2017
October 17, 2017
December 19,2017
February 27, 2018
April 24, 2018
June 26, 2018
August 27, 2018
October 30, 2018
December 18, 2018
February 26, 2019
April 4 – Special Closed Board Meeting personnel matters
April 30, 2019
June 25, 2019
August 27, 2019 Meeting Cancelled
October 11, 2019
December 17, 2019
February 25, 2020
May 19, 2020
July 29, 2020 – Closed meeting strategic planning – posted July 23, 2020
September 15, 2020
December 15, 2020
February 23, 2021
May 25, 2021
September 14, 2021
December 14, 2021
Community Advisory Group
Ricardo Beron
Drew Dunlap
Hillini Feleke
Todd Fryling – chair
Bashir Gure
Lucas Hagerty
Tom Hayden
Eve Hutcherson
William Jenkins
Jessica Johnson
Kristen King
Carol Kirshner
Abey Lissane
Colin Pigott
Mary Ruth Raphael
Javier Solano
Knight Stivender
Caroline Williams
The Community Advisors meet at 11:30 am on the following dates. The meeting location is at Nashville Public Radio, 630 Mainstream Dr., Nashville, TN 37228.
February 11, 2015
August 12, 2015
November 11, 2015
February 10, 2016
May 11, 2016
August 17, 2016
November 9, 2017
March 1, 2017
February 28, 2018
June 22, 2018
September 28, 2018
January 17, 2019
April 26, 2019
Jan 16, 2020
April 17, 2020
July 24, 2020
The Finance Committee meet at 8:00 am on the following dates.
June 5, 2015 – Investment Performance Conference call
July 22, 2015- Investment Performance Conference call
October 19, 2015 – Investment Performance Conference call
January 19, 2016 – Annual meeting at Amsurg
June 14, 2016 – Investment Performance Conference call
June 16, 2017 – Investment Performance Conference call
July 20, 2017 – Investment Performance Conference call
October 17, 2017 – Investment Performance Conference call
January 18, 2018 – Annual Meeting at Amsurg
April 23, 2018 – Investment Performance Conference call
June 18, 2018 – Investment Performance Conference call
July 31, 2018 – Investment Performance Conference call
October 29, 2018 – Investment Performance Conference call
January 28, 2019 – Annual Meeting at Nashville Public Radio
April 29, 2019 Investment Performance Conference call
July 29, 2019 Investment Performance Conference call
October 28, 2019 Investment Performance Conference call
January 27, 2020 Annual Meeting at Nashville Public Radio 630 Mainstream Dr, Nashville, TN 37228
The Capital Campaign Committee meet at 11:30 am on the following dates. The meeting location is at Nashville Public Radio, 630 Mainstream Dr., Nashville, TN 37228.
January 21, 2015
March 25, 2015
May 13, 2015
The Governance Committee meet at 8:00 am on the following dates.
June 9 , 2015 at Bass, Berry, and Sims 150 3rd Ave S #2800, Nashville, TN 37201.
May 19, 2015 at Bass, Berry, and Sims 150 3rd Ave S #2800, Nashville, TN 37201.
December 2015 at Bass, Berry, and Sims 150 3rd Ave S #2800, Nashville, TN 37201.
May 19, 2016 at Bass, Berry, and Sims 150 3rd Ave S #2800, Nashville, TN 37201.
Committee meetings are now at DVL Seigenthalar 700 12th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203
February 22, 2018 Meet at DVL Seigenthalar 700 12th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203
January 30, 2019 Meet at DVL Seigenthalar 700 12th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203
May 29, 2019 Meet at Nashville Public Radio 630 Mainstream Dr, Nashville, TN 37228
October 22,2019 Meet at Nashville Public Radio 630 Mainstream Dr, Nashville, TN 37228
The Executive Committee meet at 10:00 am on the following dates. The meeting location is at Nashville Public Radio, 630 Mainstream Dr., Nashville, TN 37228.
July 27, 2015
February 22, 2016
June 21, 2016
October 17, 2017
March 13, 2018 Meeting via conference call
May 30, 2018 Meeting via conference call
August 7, 2018 Meeting via conference call
September 25, 2018 Meeting via conference call
January 22, 2019 Meeting via conference call
May 28, 2019 Meeting via conference call
November 1, 2019 Meeting via conference call
Senior Leadership
Steve Swenson, President and CEO – [email protected] – (615) 760-2002
Carl Pedersen, VP of Finance and Technology – [email protected] – (615) 760-2003
Donna Robertson, VP of Development – [email protected] – (615) 760-2021
Anita Bugg, VP of Content – [email protected] – (615) 760-2031
FCC AND FINANCIAL REPORTS
FCC EEO REPORT 2019
FCC EEO REPORT 2020
AUDITED FINANCIAL REPORT
IRS 990 REPORT
CPB ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT
ANNUAL CPB LOCAL CONTENT AND SERVICES REPORT 2018
From CPB SAS Report 2018 – Filed February 2019
Question #1
Describe your overall goals and approach to address identified community issues, needs, and interests through your station’s vital local services, such as multi-platform long and short-form content, digital and in-person engagement, education services, community information, partnership support, and other activities, and audiences you reached or new audiences you engaged.
Answer for Question #1
With every report, Nashville Public Radio’s Health Care Desk addresses one of the most critical of all community needs: ready access to affordable, effective health care that ensure positive health outcomes. Our health reports (short and long-form) run nearly every day on our flagship news station. WPLN’s Health Care Reporter, Blake Farmer, is one of only three local reporters dedicated the health care beat, despite the fact that 16% of all American health care is based in Nashville. As members of the Kaiser Health News Network, we are partnering with other Kaiser public stations to coordinate coverage.
Our Podcasts allow us to address community issues, needs and interests and deliver in-depth, long form storytelling and analysis as well as shorter pieces for our airwaves. Because of this, we have invested heavily in the platform. Our various podcasts are described below, with an emphasis on community needs and issues.
The Promise is a limited-run series life in public housing, located in the middle of a city on the rise. Reported from the James Cayce Homes, these are stories of a neighborhood in flux, a community defined by its struggles, and the growing divide threatening its very existence. The first season of “The Promised” was listed in The New Yorker as one of the ten best podcasts of 2018.
Neighbors, a show about what connects us, continued through 2018 but will pause in production in 2019. We tell surprising stories of the people we pass every day, showing that we have more in common than we might think.
In the Podcast Curious Nashville, our reporters answer listener questions about our city and region. Listeners get to decide which question we should investigate and answer in our next podcast episode. We also give shorter answers to some questions over WPLN-FM.
Movers & Thinkers is a podcast about why people do what they do. Our host, WPLN News Director Emily Siner, probes the minds of some of the most interesting innovators in Nashville and discuss their motivations, passions and challenges.
Versify A collaboration between WPLN and The Porch, a Nashville writer’s collective, Versify is a show where someone tells a story, and in a matter of minutes, that story becomes a poem. Each episode guides listeners through this journey. It can surprise or make you cry — and proves that everyone’s life is worthy of poetry.
The Tri-Star State focuses on what’s happening in Tennessee politics each week. Nashville Public Radio statehouse reporter Chas Sisk breaks down what listeners need to know at the state capitol and beyond — in just a few minutes. Tri-Star State is offered free of charge to other public stations in Tennessee and Southern Kentucky.
Finally, our podcast, Classically Speaking, focuses on the people who make brilliant classical music. Beside telling compelling stories, this podcast gives us additional opportunities to collaborate with the local music institutions who support and present music.
Question #2
Describe key initiatives and the variety of partners with whom you collaborated, including other public media outlets, community nonprofits, government agencies, educational institutions, the business community, teachers and parents, etc. This will illustrate the many ways you’re connected across the community and engaged with other important organizations in the area.
Answer for Question #2
A continued partnership with “The Porch,” a Nashville writer’s collective, provides an opportunity for us to engage with minority audiences and educational institutions.
In reporting health care stories, we collaborate with the Nashville Health Care Council, the Kaiser Foundation and several local law practices and other firms who serve health industry clients. These informal partners help guide us to important stories but have no editorial input.
In 2018, Meribah Knight, Producer of The Promise podcast, took to the road, appearing before community groups and service clubs, taking the message of The Promise to a broader audience. It was an attempt to build a word-of-mouth network of people who, having listened to the podcast, would tell others to listen, too.
Question #3
What impact did your key initiatives and partnerships have in your community? Describe any known measurable impact, such as increased awareness, learning or understanding about particular issues. Describe indicators of success, such as connecting people to needed resources or strengthening conversational ties across diverse neighborhoods. Did a partner see an increase in requests for related resources? Please include direct feedback from a partner(s) or from a person(s) served.
Answer to Question #3
Certainly, our partnerships around health care have raised the public’s awareness of issues surrounding the delivery of health care, although this is always difficult to measure definitively.
Podcasts like The Promise help those who live in privileged circumstances understand what life in public housing is like.
Question #4
Please describe any efforts (e.g. programming, production, engagement activities) you have made to investigate and/or meet the needs of minority and other diverse audiences (including, but not limited to, new immigrants, people for whom English is a second language and illiterate adults) during Fiscal Year 2016, and any plans you have made to meet the needs of these audiences during Fiscal Year 2017. If you regularly broadcast in a language other than English, please note the language broadcast.
Answer to Question #4
If “justice” can be seen as a “need” of minority and other diverse audiences, in 2018 WPLN News played a decisive role in securing the release of Matthew Charles, a Nashville man who was outrageously sent back to jail two years after his release (having served 21 years for a crack cocaine conviction), and who tonight (February 5, 2018) will be in attendance at the President’s State of the Union Address. The reporting by our Julieta Martinelli uncovered Matthew’s situation and brought national attention to it.
We intend to continue to pursue reporting on social justice issues and engage in more investigative journalism. When solid journalism succeeds in changing unjust laws and regulations, everyone in the community benefits.
Question #5
Please assess the impact that your CPB funding had on your ability to serve your community. What were you able to do with your grant that you wouldn’t be able to do if you didn’t receive it?
Answer to Question #5
CPB funding accounts for just under 7% of Nashville Public Radio’s operating budget but this money is critical, as it helps the station be more than just an NPR outlet by supporting the production of local programming that reflects the uniqueness of Nashville.
In short, CPB funding allows us to be a distinctively local, Nashville service. This is important, given that more and more information and entertainment choices available to our listeners do not originate from or reflect the community our listeners call their home.
DIVERSITY PROGRAM
Nashville Public Radio strives to ascertain that its staff, board of directors and community advisory board are reflective of the diverse population it serves. Additionally, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s (CPB) Diversity Eligibility Criteria require public media organizations to adopt formal goals for diversity and to report annually on steps taken to work toward those goals. These actions are required for all stations receiving Community Service Grant funds (CSG).
To that end, Nashville Public Radio has set the following diversity goals:
- To recruit and retain a diverse workforce that is representative of our service area. • To provide equal opportunity in employment.
- To educate our management and staff annually in best practices for maintaining an inclusive and diverse environment for all persons.
- To seek candidates for Nashville Public Radio’s Community Advisory Board that represent the geographically and demographically diverse composition of the many communities we serve.
- Seek diverse candidates for our Board of Directors through the Nominating Committee process.
- To assist in developing a more diverse future workforce with professional skills in the broadcasting/media industry by recruiting diverse candidates for Nashville Public Radio internship opportunities and/or by participating in minority or other diversity job fairs.
- Review with the station’s governing board those practices that are designed to fulfill Nashville Public Radio’s commitment to diversity and to meet the applicable FCC guidelines
In addition, Nashville Public Radio shall undertake one of the following initiatives on an annual basis:
- Include individuals representing diverse groups in internships or work-study programs designed to provide meaningful professional level experience in order to reflect the diversity of the communities they serve and further public broadcasting’s commitment to education;
- Include qualified diverse candidates in any slate of candidates for elected governing boards that the Nashville Public Radio controls;
- Implement a diversity training program for members of the organization’s governing board of directors on an annual basis;
- Participate in minority or other diversity job fairs; or
- Implement formal diversity training programs for management and appropriate staff.
In addition to these goals Nashville Public Radio will interview at least one qualified diversity candidate for each senior leadership position hired. The term senior leadership position includes: CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Content Officer, General Manager, and other equivalent positions.
Diversity Results for April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019
Supplemental Outreach Initiatives during this period
Establishment of Internship Program:
Three student interns worked in the News department during the summer one intern from the Chips Quinn Scholars Program for Diversity.
Training Programs for Station Personnel:
Marketing and development training for the general manager and development director at the PMDMC conference. Membership training for three membership staff at PRDMC conference The music director and station manager attended a music conference on best practices in music presentation and programming for classical music stations. The content director and a news reporter attended a training meeting in on podcasting and best practices.
The Nashville Public Radio Diversity Fellowship Program was funded for the second year and was re-named the Emerging Voices Fellowship:
Hired the second Fellow for the Emerging Voices Fellowship program in August 2018.
Direct Recruiting:
Nashville Public Radio has increased its use of direct recruitment as a way to proactively attract diversity to the station. This primarily includes the use of LinkedIn to identify potential candidates affiliated with diverse associations and reaching out to them directly and encouraging them to apply for openings.
Community Outreach:
Events or Programs with Educational Institutions relating to Broadcast Careers:
2-22-2019 HealthCare reports speaks to Lipscomb University graduate class
3-27-2018 News Directors skypes with MTSU reporting class
4-04-2018 News Editor meets with YMCA Youth in government
4-19-2018 Versify producer speaks to Vanderbilt students about podcasting
6-07-2018 News Editor speaks to Father Ryan HS group
7-11-18 Podcast producers speak to students from Martha O’Bryan children’s summer program
8-16-2018 HealthCare reporter speaks to and give tour to Vanderbilt Media Students
10-10-2018 HealthCare reporter shadows Brentwood HS student
10-28-18 News director speaks to Vanderbilt Students Communications students about internship
11-08-2018 News Host speaks to TSU radio class
11-14-2018 News Director speaks to UT communications admins
2-01-2019 News Director speaks at TN State University Research Development Conference
2-12-2019 HealthCare reporter speaks a KIPP Academy career Day
2-14-2019 HeathCare reporter teaches podcasting class at Renaissance HS
2-15-2019 HealthCare reporter shadows TSU student
12-07-2018 News Director speaks to MTSU reporting class
Event participation involving Community Leaders where WPLN staff presents Public Radio’s mission and the organization’s work:
2-04-2019 Emerging Voices reporter interviewed on TVA utilities Podcast
2-06-2019 HealthCare Report speaks to Dyer County Leadership
4-16-2018 HealthCare reporter moderates anesthesiologist panel
4-16-2018 HealthCare reporter moderates Vanderbilt Medical School panel
4-21-2018 News reporter speaks at Craft Content Nashville conference
5-08-2018 News reporter gives keynote address at Neighborhood Resource Council
6-06-2018 HealthCare reporter speaks to Acklen Church
7-31-2018 News reporter speaks to Nashville Econ club
11-02-2018 News reporter moderates Leadership panel
11-06-2018 News reporter moderates Distributed Health conference panel
11-08-2019 News reporter moderates Artia Solutions conference panel
Diversity Results for April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018
Supplemental Outreach Initiatives during this period were the following:
Establishment of Internship Program: Two student interns worked in the News department during the summer one intern from the Chips Quinn Scholars Program for Diversity. The two student interns were Vanderbilt University Students.
Training Programs for Station Personnel: Marketing and development training for the general manager and development director at the PMDMC conference. Membership training for three membership staff at PRDMC conference. Membership department training on new membership database January 22 – 26, 2018. The music director and station manager attended a music conference on best practices in music presentation and programming for classical music stations. The content director and a news reporter attended a training meeting in on podcasting and best practices.
Established The Nashville Public Radio Diversity Fellowship Program: Installed the first Fellow of the Diversity Fellowship program in August 2017.
Direct Recruiting: Nashville Public Radio has increased its use of direct recruitment as a way to proactively attract diversity to the station. This primarily includes the use of LinkedIn to identify potential candidates affiliated with diverse associations and reaching out to them directly and encouraging them to apply for openings.
Community Outreach:
Events or Programs with Educational Institutions relating to Broadcast Careers:
April 1, 2017 — WPLN State House Reporter speaks to Youth in Government group
April 9, 2017 — WPLN Enterprise Reporter talks to Lipscomb civics class
April 18, 2017 — WPLN Growth and Development Reporter talks to Medill journalism class
April 21, 2017 — WPLN News Director talks to TSU class
June 7, 2017 — WPLN HealthCare Reporter hosts KIPP students for three days
June 23, 2017 — WPLN Growth and Development Reporter interviewed for MTSU class project
August 22, 2017 — WPLN HealthCare Reporter hosts Vanderbilt media immersion students
September 20, 2017 — WPLN HealthCare Reporter hosts USN student Daniel Jacobs
September 20, 2017 — WPLN State House Reporter teaches at TSU three sections
October 30, 2017 — WPLN State House Reporter speaks to MTSU class of journalists for Maria DeVarenne
November 16, 2017 — WPLN Enterprise Reporter talks to Vanderbilt’s Osher school
February 1, 2018 — WPLN Enterprise Reporter to Cumberland River Compact
February 22, 2018 — WPLN Enterprise Reporter to Vanderbilt’s Osher school
February 26, 2018 — WPLN Growth and Development Reporter Skypes with Medill journalism class
March 2, 2018 — WPLN HealthCare Reporter hosts Lipscomb Academy station visit
March 13, 2018 — WPLN Growth and Development Reporter Skypes with MTSU advanced reporting class
March 22, 2018 — WPLN News Director talks to MTSU class 3-22-18
Event participation involving Community Leaders where WPLN staff presents Public Radio’s mission and the organization’s work:
April 23, 2017 — WPLN Enterprise Reporter presents the Podcast Versify at Global Education Center
April 25, 2017 — WPLN News Director live reading for NSA and Southern Word
August 14, 2017 — WPLN HealthCare Reporter speaks to VA conference
September 9, 2017 — WPLN HealthCare Reporter moderates panel at Religion Newswriters Association
September 13, 2017 — WPLN Host/Reporter speaks to Center for Nonprofit Management
November 3, 2017 — WPLN State House Reporter participates in investigative journalist panel for Leadership Nashville
November 3, 2017 — WPLN HealthCare Reporter participates in media panel for Leadership Nashville
December 7, 2017 — WPLN Host/Reporter speaks on WXNA Radio
January 1, 2018 — WPLN News Director participates at Lipscomb University radio show
Diversity Results 2016
Supplemental outreach initiatives during this period were as follows:
Establishment of Internship Program:
Four student interns worked in the News department during the summer. One student from the University High School in Nashville, one Student from Boston College, one student from Vanderbilt University and one student from Lipscomb University.
Training Programs for Station Personnel:
Marketing and development training for the general manager and development director at the PRDMC conference. Membership training for newly hired membership manager. Controller attended PMBA conference in Washington DC which included training related to HR and business and accounting job specific related seminars.
Station management training and review of EEO:
On March 9, 2016 a review of EEO standards and practices was conducted with station senior management.
Events or Programs with Educational Institutions relating to Broadcast Careers:
4/13/15 – Emily Siner speaks to Broadcast Journalism class at Travecca Nazarene University
8/14/15 – Blake & Anita give a station tour and speak to a group from Vanderbilt Student Communications about radio journalism
9/17/15- Emily Siner spoke to the freshman photojournalism class at the University of Illinois and spoke to a newsroom leadership class for student editors and Illini media at the University of Illinois
9/18/15– Emily Siner makes presentation on podcasting at the Illinois Journalism Educator Association Conference – approximately 100 high school students in attendance
10/13/15 – Emily Siner discusses podcasting with students at Hume-Fogg High School
10/15/15 – Tony Gonzales & Emily Siner present at the Tennessee High School Press Association
10/16/15 – Blake Farmer participated in a panel discussion for students at Abilene Christian University about “finding your first job.”|
11/10/15 – Blake Farmer spoke to the MediaMasters class at Lipscomb University
12/30/15 – Blake Farmer provides job shadowing experience for high school student Sydney Glisson
1/11-28/16 – WPLN newsroom participates in Winterim for Harpeth Hall junior Emily
2/16/16 – Via skype, Emily Siner lectures about podcasts and journalism to students at the Campus Middle School For Girls in Urbana, Ill.
2/26/16 – Tony Gonzalez lead training team at workshop for the Online News Association
2/27/16 – Tony Gonzalez teachers a journalism class for the Nashville writing collected, The Porch
Event participation involving Community Leaders where WPLN staff presents Public Radio’s mission and the organization’s work:
4/22/15 – Blake Farmer moderates a Mayoral Candidates Land & Water Forum organized by various Middle Tennessee environmental groups
6/17/15 – Nina Cardona participates in a panel discussion for Metro Arts Commission October event
6/22/15 – Blake Farmer moderates a panel on Nashville architecture at the Parthenon.
6/25/15 – Chas Sisk speaks to the McMinnville Rotary Club
8/7/15 – Blake Farmer speaks to the League of Women Voters about results of August 6th Metro Elections
8/20/15 – Blake Farmer moderates a run-off candidate forum for At-large Metro Council, organized by the Belmont-Hillsboro Neighbors, Inc.
9/10/15– Anita speaks to non-profit leaders at the Center for Non-profit Management about how to work with the media
9/26/15 – Tony Gonzalez served as a judge for the Neighborhood Resource Center’s 3rd Annual Neighborhood Celebration
9/29/15 – Blake Farmer discusses possible changes to Tennessee’s Open Records law on WTVF’s Morningline
11/5/15 – Tony Gonzalez participated in panel discussion for Leadership Nashville about new ways of story telling
11/5/15 – Anita Bugg and Mack Linebaugh talk about today’s changing media landscape to a group called Life Long Learners at The Temple
1/15/16 – Chas Sisk appears on Inside Politics on WTVF-TV
3/2/16 – Emily Siner & Chas Sisk talk about news coverage with staff and attorneys at Bass, Berry and Sims law firm
Diversity Results 2015
Establishment of Internship Program:
Three student interns worked in the News department during the summer. One student from Coffee County Tennessee high school, one Indiana University, and one from Rollins College.
Training Programs for Station Personnel:
Marketing and development training for the general manager and development director at the PRDMC conference. Membership training for newly hired membership manager.
Station management training and review of EEO:
On January 7, 2015 a review of EEO standards and practices with department heads
Events or Programs with Educational Institutions relating to Broadcast Careers:
The Audio Production Class from Trevecca University toured the Nashville Public Radio studios on September 19, 2014 and participated in a presentation and question and answer session with the organizations technical manager, production manager and news director.The Vanderbilt University Media Immersion Program University toured the Nashville Public Radio studios on August 18, 2014 and participated in a presentation and question and answer session with the organizations technical manager and news director.
Diversity Results 2014
Establishment of Internship Program:
Three student interns worked in the News department during the summer. Two were from the Vanderbilt Student Media Intern program, and one from the University of the South
Student Mentoring and Job Shadowing
A student from Harpeth Hall spent “Winterim”, three 40-hour weeks, January 6 to 24, in the Nashville Public Radio Newsroom researching, interviewing, writing, and producing stories. Three students from the University School job shadowed in the Newsroom on February 28nd. .
Training Programs for Station Personnel:
Marketing and development training for the general manager and development director at the PRDMC conference. Membership training for newly hired membership manager.
Station management training on EEO:
On March 28, a review of EEO standards and practices with department heads
Events or Programs with Educational Institutions relating to Broadcast Careers:
The News Director guest lectured to journalism students at Tennessee State University on November 26th One February the News Director conducted an advanced workshop for radio news students at Tennessee State University
Events with Community Organization regarding Broadcast Careers:
Program director was a panelist at the Tennessee State University music on radio workshop on February 27, 2014.
OPEN MEETING NOTICES
Notices were broadcast on both WPLN-FM and WPLN-AM on the following dates unless otherwise noted.
01/25/15
02/22/15
03/22/15
04/19/15
06/14/15
07/19/15
08/16/15
09/20/15
10/4/15
10/11/15
Dec 18, 19, 20, 2015 WPLN-AM & FM
Feb 26, 27, 28, 2016 WPLN-AM & FM
Mar 4,5,6, 2016 WPLN-AM & FM
June 24,25,26, 2016 WPLN-AM & FM
July 1,2,3, 2016 WPLN-AM & FM
July 22,23,24 2016 WPLN-AM
July 1,2,3,29,30,31 2016 WPLN-FM
Nov 25,26,27 2016 WPLN-AM
Dec 2,3,4, 2016 WPLN-FM
Jan 20,21,22 2017 WPLN-AM
March 3,4,5, 2017 WPLN-FM
April 21,22,23, 2017 WPLN-AM
June 2,3,4, 2017 WPLN-FM
July 21,22,23, 2017 WPLN-AM
July 28,29,30, 2017 WPLN-FM
Aug 13,14,15, 2017 WPLN-AM
October 13,14,15, 2017 WPLN-AM
December 29,30,31, 2017 WPLN-FM
February 23,24,25, 2018 WPLN-FM
March 30, 31 and April 1, 2018 WPLN-AM
June 29, 30 and July 1 and July 15, 2018 WPLN AM
June 29, 30 and July 1 and 8, 2018 WPLN-FM
August 3,4 and 5 2018 WPLN FM
Sept 28, 29, 30 2018 WPLN AM
December 28, 29, 30 2018 WPLN-AM
December 28,29,30 2018 WPLN-FM
March 22,23,24 2019 WPLN-AM
March 22,23,24 2019 WPLN-FM
July 12,13,14 2019 WPLN-FM
August 16,17,18 2019 WPLN-AM