RPTF

I curate the history series at public media's journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR & PBS, educational, community, and affiliate stations. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate! current.org/series/rewind/

How journalists of color are expanding radio’s definition of a ‘good talker’ Voice standards can shift to ensure clear, dynamic speech without excluding guests who lack training and experience in institutional spaces.

"The vague and subjective criteria of having a story that includes 'good talkers' ... end up favoring experts and guests with experience within and connections to white institutional spaces," writes @lauragarbes.bsky.social. current.org/2025/09/how-...

Session Info: WEDNESDAY - June 18th, 3:00-4:00PM Saving Campus and Community Radio History - Presentation Jennifer Waits, Assistant Curator, Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications… NCRC43: Saving Campus and Community Radio History

SAVING CAMPUS & COMMUNITY RADIO HISTORY 🎙

At June's National Campus & Community Radio Association conference, #InternetArchive’s Jennifer Waits, Asst. Curator for the #collegeradio collection in DLARC, shared her work.

▶️ Watch her talk.

Don’t miss the inaugural Los Angeles Silent Film Festival September 12th - 14th at the Los Feliz 3 / American Cinematheque.

Our big data project is back up and live, thanks to the work of our Lead Research Director, Stephanie Sapienza (University of Maryland).

Cool grant opportunity if you've got audio archives!

Please RT! Radio/sound scholars: June 15 is LAST CALL to sign up for the
@rptf.bsky.social
/BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program.

Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join.

Sign up at the BEA website:
bea.memberclicks.net/login#/login

Radio Preservation Task Force | About This Program | National Recording Preservation Plan | Programs | Library of Congress The Radio Preservation Task Force (RPTF), created early in 2014, grows out of the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan (December 2012, see: www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-...

Our gigantic applied policy public humanities project observes its 12th anniversary this month. We're currently running 50 faculty and archivist directors and something over 350 current and recent research associates. Update posted at the LOC.

Sign up! I participated a couple of years ago and had the amazing opportunity to be mentored by @soniarobles.bsky.social! Really incredible experience! 🙌

THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 1: Fishing In The Night | On the Media | WNYC Studios Season Two of On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial is the untold story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radi...

An entire episode of Library of Congress @rptf.bsky.social media historians on WNYC On the Media! Michele Hilmes, Susan Douglas, and thanks to David Goren for the project name check.