We're lucky in northern New York to have a superb, guns blazing public radio news operation based out of Canton NY - the local calls are WSLU but collectively (the station runs a fistful of translators) it goes by NCPR. That said, it's not enough. There are little radio stations all around the north country which used to have one and two person news departments but which have been slowly losing ground. One thing your excellent article doesn't mention: those small stations were the first step up the ladder - ie, they were the training ground for stations in small cities, which, in turn, supplied some of large city radio talent.
We're lucky in northern New York to have a superb, guns blazing public radio news operation based out of Canton NY - the local calls are WSLU but collectively (the station runs a fistful of translators) it goes by NCPR. That said, it's not enough. There are little radio stations all around the north country which used to have one and two person news departments but which have been slowly losing ground. One thing your excellent article doesn't mention: those small stations were the first step up the ladder - ie, they were the training ground for stations in small cities, which, in turn, supplied some of large city radio talent.