create and design a new original public media program that: Advances the mission of public media Would be appropriate for potential distribution through national PBS, NPR, local public radio, local public television, and/or PRX 1 – Introduce your program, and summarize the content. Describe what the program is. Explain the proposed program in depth. What genre would it be? How long is each episode? Describe the program’s form, content, and purpose. Explain what media already exist that might be comparable to your idea, and discuss how yours is different from the options currently available. Consider the production process. What would it take, in terms of people and resources, to actually produce it? 2 – Write a mission statement for the program that addresses how the ‘program’ the overall mission of public media as a public good and public service and serves the public interest. 3 – Target audience Explain the audience your program would serve. What are their demographics (i.e. age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, education)? Explain who the audience is, where they live, the needs and challenges they face, and shared concerns they have. Do some research and identify the media that already target this population, and explain if your program fills a unique need in the media landscape, or adds to a program or set of programs that already exist in public media. 4 – Funding How would you pay for the cost of production and distribution? Identify at least two foundations (local or national) that might be interested in supporting the program, and explain how the program might advance their missions. Would you want to seek business sponsors? Why or why not? And if so, identify a few possibilities, and explain why supporting the program would be beneficial for them. Explain the extent to which you think you could attract individual donations, and who might be likely to contribute. Finally, consider whether the program might be competitive for a CPB program grant, and if so, in what ways. 5 – Distribution How would the audience access the program? Would it be over-the-air, live streaming, on-demand, podcasted, terrestrial broadcasting, or some other way the audience can engage with the content? Would you want a distribution partner (such as NPR, PBS, PRX, or a local public media outlet)? What would the argument be for such partners to distribute your show? What would your program’s social media presence be? How would you make use of social media to distribute, promote, or otherwise enhance the program? Explanation & Answer: 1500 Words Tags: public media program local public radio local public television User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool’s honor code & terms of service.
Reference List: Basic Rules
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
This resource, revised according to the 7th edition APA Publication Manual, provides fundamental guidelines for constructing the reference pages of research papers. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (7th ed.).
Note: Because the information on this page pertains to virtually all citations, we’ve highlighted one important difference between APA 6 and APA 7 with an underlined note written in red.
Formatting a Reference List
Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text.
Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay; label this page “References” in bold, centered at the top of the page (do NOT underline or use quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of your essay.
Basic Rules for Most Sources
- All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.
- All authors’ names should be inverted (i.e., last names should be provided first).
- Authors’ first and middle names should be written as initials.
- For example, the reference entry for a source written by Jane Marie Smith would begin with “Smith, J. M.”
- If a middle name isn’t available, just initialize the author’s first name: “Smith, J.”
- Give the last name and first/middle initials for all authors of a particular work up to and including 20 authors (this is a new rule, as APA 6 only required the first six authors). Separate each author’s initials from the next author in the list with a comma. Use an ampersand (&) before the last author’s name. If there are 21 or more authors, use an ellipsis (but no ampersand) after the 19th author, and then add the final author’s name.
- Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
- For multiple articles by the same author, or authors listed in the same order, list the entries in chronological order, from earliest to most recent.
- When referring to the titles of books, chapters, articles, reports, webpages, or other sources, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of the title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns.
- Note again that the titles of academic journals are subject to special rules. See section below.
- Italicize titles of longer works (e.g., books, edited collections, names of newspapers, and so on).
- Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as chapters in books or essays in edited collections.
Basic Rules for Articles in Academic Journals
- Present journal titles in full.
- Italicize journal titles.
- Maintain any nonstandard punctuation and capitalization that is used by the journal in its title.
- For example, you should use PhiloSOPHIA instead of Philosophia, or Past & Present instead of Past and Present.
- Capitalize all major words in the titles of journals. Note that this differs from the rule for titling other common sources (like books, reports, webpages, and so on) described above.
- This distinction is based on the type of source being cited. Academic journal titles have all major words capitalized, while other sources’ titles do not.
- Capitalize the first word of the titles and subtitles of journal articles, as well as the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and any proper nouns.
- Do not italicize or underline the article title.
- Do not enclose the article title in quotes.
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
- Deep blue: The mysteries of the Marianas Trench.
- …but you would write the journal title as follows:
- Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
Please note: While the APA manual provides examples of how to cite common types of sources, it does not cover all conceivable sources. If you must cite a source that APA does not address, the APA suggests finding an example that is similar to your source and using that format. For more information, see page 282 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed.
