Marketing Vox reports that NPR’s site traffic is up 78% over the last year, thanks in large part to podcasting and social networking features. NPR.org had 2.6 million unique visitors in August, a 78 percent increase from a year earlier, according to comScore data.
Public radio audiences and contributions went up, too.
NPR is also planning new social [...]

In this series of videos, NPR’s Ira Glass explains his ideas on storytelling in audio and video:
Ira Glass on Storytelling

NPR and 12 NPR Member stations recognized for music programming have launched NPR Music, a new, free, comprehensive multimedia music discovery Web site. The site features on-air and online content aggregated from NPR and the participating stations as well as original-to-NPR Music materials such as interviews, reviews, blogs and live performances.
The site is already impressive [...]

NPR has introduced a custom branded podcast player for Facebook, based on technology from SplashCast.
The application, called the NPR Podcast Player, displays the latest episodes of a variety of NPR Podcasts. Facebook users can add the application to their profiles to automatically receive new NPR Podcasts episodes to listen to and to share this [...]

The winners of the Webby Film and Video Awards were announced today, with winnders ranging from Hollywood heavy hitters like NBC’s The Office Webisodes to Eepybird.com’s The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments.
The Webby Award Winner for podcasting was NPR Podcasts, which also was the People’s Voice Winner.
Organizers also announced the recipients of two Special [...]

Radio industry website FMQB.com reports that public radio station KCRW/Santa Monica has been awarded a $600,000, three-year grant from the Annenberg Foundation, which the public radio station plans to use for “Web initiatives and podcasting.”
paidContent.org elaborates that as part of “public media‚Äôs push into online media,” KCRW, the NPR flagship station for Southern California, will [...]

On Monday, Chicago Public Radio will introduce a This American Life podcast.
Starting Monday, October 16, each show will be available to podcast subscribers on the Monday following its national broadcast. After seven days, the shows wil migrate to the program’s online archives.
The price for downloads of these archived shows is $0.95 cents per show. Each [...]

NPR has introduced a new podcast dedicated to the world of video games, Press Start.
Hosts Robert Holt, Ralph Cooper, and Kyle Orland discuss the art and craft of video games: what’s new and what games they’ve been playing. The first episode looks at video games as art (MP3).