{"id":17995,"date":"2018-05-11T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=17995"},"modified":"2018-05-11T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:00:03","slug":"new-lineup-brings-fact-based-journalism-wbez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/05\/11\/new-lineup-brings-fact-based-journalism-wbez\/","title":{"rendered":"New lineup brings more \u2018fact-based journalism\u2019 to WBEZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> WBEZ<\/p><\/div>\n

Nine months after he came back to WBEZ 91.5-FM<\/a> as chief content officer, Steve Edwards is putting his mark on the daily programming lineup of the Chicago Public Media station.<\/p>\n

Starting Monday, a revamped schedule<\/a> at WBEZ will feature five new shows and an expansion of news designed to bring \u201cnew voices, fresh personalities and diverse perspectives to Chicago\u2019s airwaves.\u201d (Here is the link to the revised lineup.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re updating our weekday and weekend schedule to reflect an even greater commitment to the daily news cycle and to fact-based, independent journalism,\u201d Edwards wrote in a letter <\/a>to listeners.<\/p>\n

Highlighting more local news and investigative reports from WBEZ's growing staff,<\/a> the changes include extending \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d by one hour to 7 p.m. weekdays, and airing \u201cMarketplace\u201d twice \u2014 at 4:30 and 7 p.m. \u201cWeekend Edition Sunday\u201d also will be extended by an hour, to 11 a.m. Sundays.<\/p>\n

New programs will be: the national talk show \u201c1A\u201d (10 a.m. and 10 p.m. weekdays); The New York Times podcast \u201cThe Daily\u201d (7:30 p.m. Monday though Thursday); NPR\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s Been a Minute\u201d (11 a.m. Saturdays); the political talk show \u201cThe Takeaway\u201d (3 p.m. Saturday, starting June 2); and NPR\u2019s \u201cHidden Brain\" (8 p.m. Sundays).<\/p>\n

Gone from WBEZ will be four shows \u2014 \u201cQ,\u201d \u201cThe World,\u201d \u201cLe Show,\u201d and \u201cBBC Newshour.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Steve Edwards<\/p><\/div>\n

Edwards, who was a longtime program host and program director of WBEZ, returned <\/a>to station last summer after a five-year stint as executive director of the University of Chicago\u2019s Institute of Politics.<\/p>\n

The programming moves follow the launch of a branding campaign to promote WBEZ as a premier local news organization. With the tagline \u201cHear the Whole Picture,\u201d the multi-year campaign created by Chicago ad agency Two by Four includes streaming audio, digital media, TV, billboards and bus shelter posters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis campaign shines a light on what we\u2019ve been doing all along at WBEZ Chicago \u2013 providing independent, fact-based news and original programming,\u201d Goli Sheikholeslami, CEO of Chicago Public Media, said in a statement. \u201cWe hope the campaign will attract new listeners who are looking for an alternate news source to bring them balanced reporting and a deep understanding of the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, WBEZ tied for 18th in the market with a 2.5 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 500,200. NPR\u2019s \u201cMorning Edition\u201d and the local \u201cMorning Shift\u201d on WBEZ tied for 13th in morning drive with 3.0 share and 248,000 weekly cume.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> John Wilson:<\/strong> The loss of comments [at the Chicago Tribune] is a loss of journalism. It's like banning letters to the editor. Perhaps there need to be better systems for getting better comments, but that's no reason to give up entirely. It's easy to cheer the end of comments if you're a columnist who gets to reach a large audience and doesn't want to hear criticism. But comments (as this site shows) often provide insight, corrections, and contrarian views.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine months after he came back to WBEZ 91.5-FM as chief content officer, Steve Edwards is putting his mark on the daily programming lineup of the Chicago Public Media station. Starting Monday, a revamped schedule at WBEZ will feature five new shows and an expansion of news designed to bring \u201cnew voices, fresh personalities and... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17995"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18004,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions\/18004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}