KQED Launches KQEDnews.org

Northern California public broadcaster KQED has followed NPR’s lead and created a destination news site online, KQEDnews.org.

From the press release:

KQEDnews.org will be frequently updated throughout the day and will feature additional professionally-written stories about issues facing Northern Californians, a news blog “News Fix”, up-to-the-minute traffic and weather, commentary and analysis, and streamed audio of the latest newscasts.

KQED, which includes both radio and television, is also stepping up its radio-borne local news coverage. It has recently added eight staffers, including six reporters, and is expanding the number of its daily radio newscasts from six to sixteen.

“KQED is stepping up to help fill the news coverage void created by cutbacks at other journalistic organizations,” said KQED president and CEO John Boland. Boland came to KQED earlier this year from PBS, where he was the network’s first “chief content officer.”

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