PRNDI | Mission & Goals

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PRNDI's Mission

PRNDI is a non-profit professional association that exists to improve local news and information programming by serving public radio journalists.

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PRNDI educates, advocates and organizes to promote high standards, ethical principles, and significant public service.

PRNDI's Goals

Strengthen the skills, capacity & professional position of News Directors and, through them, strengthen public radio's local news & public affairs efforts in ways that are embraced by audiences, station leaders, networks and supporters.

  • Training at the national conference
  • News Director Handbook
  • Training at the regional level
  • Web resources
  • National training outside of the conference

Foster a compelling vision of service and a sustainable business model for local public radio news & public affairs that is broadly embraced by station leaders, networks and public radio's supporters.

  • Research
  • Engage with decision-makers in organized way
  • "Proven Practice" business models - different sites/formats
  • Develop funding agenda for CPB
  • Create a "Leaders Circle"

Training – “Got an Edit”

PRNDI held its first ever regional training at Chicago Public Radio in late April.  NewsWorks trainers Tanya Ott and Michael Marcotte gave a group of 12 Midwest reporters a day of boot camp in public radio feature production, then helped them produce their own localized stories about the foreclosure crisis.  Here's one that aired on Chicago Public Radio from reporter Ashley Gross:

You can see photos and get a bit more information by clicking here.

PRNDI hopes to sponsor the next regional training in Fall 2008.  If you'd like to host it, contact Training Committee Chair Julianne Welby, jwelby@wfuv.org.

PRNDI News Director Handbook

The wheels may be turning slowly, but they ARE turning.  Former PRNDI President Michael Marcotte is beginning the work on the News Director Handbook.  This will be the area of our website dedicated to various handbook topics as they become available.

PRNDI is contributing ongoing programmatic and content expertise to The Public Radio Exchange.  The current PRX News Curator is PRNDI Board Member Julianne Welby.