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Director General Noel Curran’s welcome address at Radiodays … – European Broadcasting Union

Czech Radio - Khalil Baalbaki

Thank you for inviting me to address you all today.

It is always a pleasure to join you at Radiodays Europe, and Im especially delighted to be with you here in Prague as your host partner and our Member Czech Radio prepares to celebrate its centenary in May. Czechoslovakia was only the second country in Europe - after the UK - to have regular radio broadcasts, and Czech Radio has long been a pioneer in broadcasting - both in terms of the content it produces and its technical innovation and Im glad to say that continues today.

Radio has been a part of our lives for over 100 years. But we need to constantly resist the temptation to lazily classify it as a legacy media. We need to challenge those who view it and portray it as some old style, safe medium that you cuddle up in the corner with while having a nice cup of tea.

I am sure there are those who like nothing more than doing that but that doesnt reflect the dynamism and also continued relevance of so much of radio output.

In terms of relevance, the figures speak for themselves.

Its a relevance that was hard earned during Covid and now during the war in Ukraine.

Particularly in the area of News and Current Affairs, which I have been asked to concentrate on today, Radio has really come into its own in the last few years. Anyone who forgot the decades-old lessons we learned about audio content being more flexible, faster, and easier to produce and distribute than TV got a daily wake-up call from the frontlines of Covid and Ukraine.

The radio output produced at this critical time has been nothing short of outstanding.

But this hasnt been just a technological or production triumph. It was a triumph of accessibility, immediacy and intimacy.

It was also one built on the editorial talent and innovation of radio producers and journalists.

Always at the heart of radios output news and current affairs make up over a quarter of all public broadcasters radio content and it has never been more vital.

Providing immediate, accurate information to Ukrainian citizens has been critical. Well hear shortly from Andriy Taranov from our Ukrainian Member UA:PBC and Id like to pay tribute to all the team at UA:PBC for the incredible work theyve done to keep the news on-air in the most challenging of circumstances.

Id also like to take the opportunity today to express my thanks to all our Members and the many commercial broadcasters that stepped up to help support Ukraine by re-transmitting Ukrainian public radio signals, embedding feeds, or launching new services for those who had to flee the country.

This appalling war has taken a huge toll on life and lives in Ukraine. But we also must not forget the huge risks all our journalists are also taking to keep the news on-air. According to alerts published on the Council of Europes Safety of Journalism platform, to date, twelve journalists and media workers have been killed while covering the war in Ukraine and 23 others have been injured. We know those figures will rise so we must fight to ensure journalists operating in areas of armed conflict are treated and protected as citizens and allowed to work without interference if we are to defend the publics right to information.

But as I said at the start, when we talk about radio we need to be careful not to just emphasize its relevance and trust but also its dynamism in terms of production and new audiences.

We know nearly two-thirds of young Europeans listen to podcasts.

And the strongest growing demographic for spoken-word audio is the 13-24-year-old age range.

Great audio content is still IN demand but it is now consumed ON demand with the listener in control.

We need strong multiplatform distribution strategies to ensure radio continues to provide a reliable voice for millions of citizens, particularly for in-car audio.

In a world where young people are increasingly getting news from social media, what are the opportunities to offer them a real alternative and ensure they still understand and value the power of radio?

Well, firstly there are some.

We have no shortage of online and platform content offerings but we all know trust in many of those offerings is incredibly low. Amongst all ages. We have a unique opportunity here if radio can transfer the extraordinary trust it enjoys with the public into the online space.

Podcasts can help us to jump off the negative news cycle and offer more solution-based journalism that young people can engage with.

We see the way they also provide us with an opportunity to refresh and reinvigorate traditional radio formats in news and current affairs. To experiment and play. To create more immersive experiences. To engage new listeners and reach out to more niche audiences without alienating the mainstream.

For example, Frances Salut linfo! was born out of a partnership between France Info and Astrapi to deliver weekly news bulletins tailored for our youngest audiences.

Weve also seen Swedish Radio actively exploring new digital audio formats for news focusing on short news clips customized for digital platforms and collated as playlists where listeners can easily access the clips they want to listen to.

But podcasts also allow us to go deep into topics, to tell stories from start to finish and to provide context which is particularly important for younger audiences.

I know well be hearing later from our Italian Member Rai on the success of their 14-part documentary podcast Io ero il milanese (I am from Milan). Told in the protagonists own words, this story of one mans redemption is also now being made into a television series such was the power of this audio story to engage with audiences.

We shouldnt worry so much about podcasts cannibalizing the audience for linear radio. Our wider strategy must be to reach listeners with quality audio content on any platform in the format that works best for them.

And I do think one genre enriches the other. Weve seen many examples of shows starting life as podcasts and going on to become radio hits. Take a look at the BBCs Brexitcast & Electioncast podcasts, which were rebroadcast not only on radio, but on TV, all the time managing to retain their more informal, light-hearted podcast sensibility.

We need to invest wisely on third-party platforms to remain visible and win over audiences. But we shouldnt be afraid to build and promote our own environments for audiences to experience our content.

Weve seen many of our Members investing in audio destinations such as BBC Sounds or SR Play in recent years so they have better control over the audience experience and onward recommendations, as well as the ability to build brand awareness and attribution.

We need to continue to be bold and build our own distribution platforms. Keeping the volume for ourselves. Sharing only when it makes sense to share.

This is a critical time because the rules and terms of trade are being laid down today. Once established, they will be hard to shift.

We have an opportunity right now to advocate for the right regulatory framework to allow our industry to continue to thrive both offline and importantly online.

For this to be really effective, public and private media need to find common ground. We know this is possible. We worked together on the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act with key successes on issues like virtual assistants. We are working together on the battle for spectrum ahead of the key WRC conference at the end of this year.

I know there are differing views in this room on the new European Media Freedom Act. We at the EBU have welcomed it but want to see changes in what has been proposed. But even if you disagree completely with it, the Commission are determined to push ahead so we need to influence it. We have to take every opportunity to ask for strong prominence rules, brand attribution guarantees, and procedural safeguards.

We in public service media want to find that common ground. There is much at stake for all of us.

But we have a lot to be very proud of as an industry.

We have a decades-old legacy - but also a dynamic future.

We have hard-earned trust - but also now an opportunity to extend that even further in the online world.

We have some of the best producers and journalists in the world but also a growing need to protect them and believe in their ability to win new listeners.

But, most of all, we have the most extraordinary medium for connecting with our audiences and we share a responsibility to adapt, innovate and work together to ensure it continues to do so for the next 100 years.

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Dalet and IMT Extend Strategic Partnership to Reinvent Media Asset … – Sports Video Group

Dalet announces a partnership with Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT).IMT is positioned to fully leverage the Dalet portfolio of cloud-native media production, management and distribution solutions to enable digital and business transformation for clients. Early collaborations include the implementation of Dalet Flex media supply chain capabilities to facilitate content packaging and delivery workflows on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure for the Gamestar+ streaming service.

Dalet brings to the IMT portfolio 30 years of media experience packed into modern cloud-native solutions that will accelerate our customers ambitions and business, comments Jason Kranitz, President, Systems Integration, IMT. Dalet cloud-native solutions offer the agility for real transformation backed by a company with a customer centric ethos that makes this an outstanding partnership.

As part of its solutions portfolio, IMT will offer Dalets robust cloud-native solutions and SaaS offerings, which include the market-leading media logistics solution Dalet Flex. Dalet seamlessly integrates with CloudSoda data migration solution, supporting high-speed data movement that is agnostic to the underlying storage technology.

IMT is fully aligned with Dalet in terms of skills and technology portfolio, specifically their close collaboration with AWS, a key partner in the Dalet ecosystem, states Ewan Johnston, Strategic Alliances and Channel Partner Director, Dalet. Together, we can help customers traverse the entire journey to the cloud, especially those with complex content workflow environments. IMTs deep bench knowledge with digital content workflows combined with Dalet cloud-native solutions enable customers to take full advantage of cloud services, offering an agile, modular solution to power exceptional content workflows and experiences that just cannot be attained with legacy solutions.

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Increasing Threat of Spread of Antimicrobial-resistant Fungus in … – CDC

Candida auris (C. auris), an emerging fungus considered an urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat, spread at an alarming rate in U.S. healthcare facilities in 2020-2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Equally concerning was a tripling in 2021 of the number of cases that were resistant to echinocandins, the antifungal medicine most recommended for treatment of C. auris infections. In general, C. auris is not a threat to healthy people.People who are very sick, have invasive medical devices, or have long or frequent stays in healthcare facilities are at increased risk for acquiring C. auris. CDC has deemed C. auris as an urgent AR threat, because it is often resistant to multiple antifungal drugs, spreads easily in healthcare facilities, and can cause severe infections with high death rates.

The rapid rise and geographic spread of cases is concerning and emphasizes the need for continued surveillance, expanded lab capacity, quicker diagnostic tests, and adherence to proven infection prevention and control, said CDC epidemiologist Dr. Meghan Lyman, lead author of the paper.

As further explained in the article, C. auris has spread in the United States since it was first reported in 2016, with a total of 3,270 clinical cases (in which infection is present) and 7,413 screening cases (in which the fungus is detected but not causing infection) reported through December 31, 2021. Clinical cases have increased each year since 2016, with the most rapid rise occurring during 2020-2021. CDC has continued to see an increase in case counts for 2022. During 2019-2021, 17 states identified their first C. auris case ever. Nationwide, clinical cases rose from 476 in 2019 to 1,471 in 2021. Screening cases tripled from 2020 to 2021, for a total of 4,041. Screening is important to prevent spread by identifying patients carrying the fungus so that infection prevention controls can be used.

C. auris case counts have increased for many reasons, including poor general infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in healthcare facilities. Case counts may also have increased because of enhanced efforts to detect cases, including increased colonization screening, a test to see if someone has the fungus somewhere on their body but does not have an infection or symptoms of infection. The timing of this increase and findings from public health investigations suggest C. auris spread may have worsened due to strain on healthcare and public health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CDCs Antimicrobial Resistance Laboratory Network, which provides nationwide lab capacity to rapidly detect antimicrobial resistance and inform local responses to prevent spread and protect people, provided some of the data for this report. CDC worked to significantly strengthen laboratory capacity, including in state, territorial, and local health departments, through supplemental funding supported by the American Rescue Plan Act. These efforts include increasing susceptibility testing capacity for C. auris from seven Regional Labs to more than 26 labs nationwide.

CDC continues to work with state, local, and territorial health departments and other partners to address this emerging threat to public health. Review more informationon C. auris, the Antimicrobial Resistance Threats Reportthat identified C. auris as an urgent threat in the United States, or the WHO fungal priority pathogen list that identifies C. auris as a priority globally.

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State Police Release Identities Of Victims Involved In I-695 Fatal Crash – maryland.gov

March 23, 2023

(WOODLAWN, MD) Maryland State Police identify the six highway workers involved in the fatal pedestrian crash on Interstate 695 yesterday.

Emergency medical personnel from the Baltimore County Fire Department pronounced six contractual highway workers deceased on the scene. The victims are identified as:

Rolando Ruiz, 46, of Laurel

Carlos Orlando Villatoro Escobar, 43, of Frederick

Jose Armando Escobar, 52, of Frederick

Mahlon Simmons III, 31, of Union Bridge

Mahlon Simmons II, 52, of Union Bridge

Sybil Lee Dimaggio, 46, of Glen Burnie

Lisa Adrienne Lea, 54, of Randallstown remains at Shock Trauma where she is currently receiving medical treatment. Lea was the driver and sole occupant of a 2017 Acura TLX involved in the crash.

Melachi Brown, 20, of Windsor Mill was uninjured in the crash. He was the driver of a 2017 Volkswagen, the second vehicle involved in the crash. Brown stopped his vehicle north of the scene on I-695 where his vehicle became disabled.

The preliminary investigation indicates the driver of the Acura, later identified as Lea, was traveling in lane 2 at about 12:40 p.m. yesterday when she attempted to change lanes. As Lea attempted to move into lane 1, police believe her vehicle struck the front corner panel on the passenger side of the Volkswagen. Crash Team investigators believe this caused the Acura to lose control and subsequently travel through the barrier opening into the work zone and overturned. The construction workers were working in an active work zone on the left shoulder of the inner loop of I-695 in Baltimore County when the incident occurred.

Maryland State Police from the Golden Ring Barrack and the Traffic Incident Management Section responded to the scene. Officers from the Baltimore County Police Department also responded to assist. Investigators from the Maryland Department of Transportation Occupational Safety Office, Maryland Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are working in coordination with the Maryland State Police Crash Team.

Once the investigation is complete, the Crash Team will submit its findings to the Baltimore County States Attorneys Office for review to determine whether charges will be filed.

Anyone with information relevant to the crash is asked to call the Maryland State Police Golden Ring Barrack at 410-780-2700. The crash remains under investigation.

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Winter Academic All-Big Ten Honors Announced – University of … – MGoBlue

Photo Roster of 2023 Winter All-Big Ten Honorees

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- The Big Ten Conference office released its winter 2023 Academic All-Big Ten team Thursday (March 23), with 106University of Michigan student-athletes earning the distinction.

Criteria for making the Academic All-Big Ten team includes being in at least their second academic year at their institution and maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.

The conference office also awards Academic All-Big Ten distinction in the fall and spring seasons. U-M had 164 honorees in the fall to give the Wolverines 270so far for 2022-23.

Student-athletes with a GPA of 3.7 or higher for the current academic year, excluding summer school, are eligible for the Distinguished Scholar Award announced in the summer.

Men's Basketball (7)

Ian Burns, So., Business AdministrationHunter Dickinson, Jr., General StudiesJace Howard, Jr., SociologyJackson Selvala, Sr., Political ScienceCooper Smith, Jr., General StudiesWill Tschetter, So., Earth & Environmental StudiesTerrance Williams II, Jr., Sport Management

Women's Basketball (9)

Jordan Hobbs, So., Business AdministrationEmily Kiser, Gr., ManagementMaddie Nolan, Sr., Sport ManagementMichelle Sidor, Sr., Business AdministrationWhitney Sollom, Jr., General StudiesElise Stuck, Jr., Movement ScienceIzabel Varejo, Sr., Gender and HealthAri Wiggins, So., Sport ManagementCameron Williams, Jr., Sport Management

Men's Gymnastics (17)

Javier Alfonso, Jr., PsychologyCrew Bold, Sr., Sport ManagementCasey Cummings, Sr., PsychologyPaul Juda, Sr., PsychologySteven Lukasik, Sr., Mechanical EngineeringLogan McKeown, Jr., Computer ScienceLais Najjar, Jr., Computer ScienceRithik Puri, Jr., Biomedical EngineeringChris Read, Jr., Applied Exercise ScienceMarkus Shears, Sr., Communication and MediaKyle Shuttle, Sr., Cognitive ScienceEvgeny Siminiuc, Jr., Computer ScienceColin Stenger, Sr., Aerospace EngineeringVirgil Watkins, Sr., Materials Science & EngineeringDavid Willett, Sr., Biomedical EngineeringAdam Wooten, Sr., Business AdministrationEdward Yao, Jr., Economics

Women's Gymnastics (12)

Carly Bauman, Jr., Biology, Health & SocietySierra Brooks, Sr., Business AdministrationReyna Guggino, Jr., Biology, Health & SocietyAbby Heiskell, Gr., ManagementNicoletta Koulos, Sr., Applied Exercise ScienceAshley Lane, So., Business AdministrationNaomi Morrison, Jr., Communication & MediaJenna Mulligan, Jr., Movement ScienceAbigael Vides, So., Gender and HealthJacey Vore, So., Communication & MediaGabby Wilson, Sr., EnglishNatalie Wojcik, Gr., Management and Leadership MSW

Ice Hockey (13)

Eric Ciccolini, Sr., Sport ManagementDylan Duke, So., Sport ManagementEthan Edwards, So., Sport ManagementMark Estapa, So., Business AdministrationNick Granowicz, Sr., EconomicsSteven Holtz, Jr., Mechanical EngineeringLuke Hughes, So., LSA UndeclaredJay Keranen, Sr., Sport ManagementPhilippe Lapointe, Jr., Sport ManagementNolan Moyle, Gr., Real EstateKeaton Pehrson, Sr., Communications & MediaErik Portillo, Jr., Business AdministrationJacob Truscott, Jr., Applied Exercise Science

Men's Swimming and Diving (14)

Nadav Aaronson, Sr., InformationJack Callan, Jr., Sport ManagementJuan Ceresa, Jr., SpanishAnsel Froass, Jr., Business AdministrationConnor Hunt, So., Business AdministrationKameron Liberman, Jr., NeuroscienceCameron Luarde, So., UndeclaredJack McCurdy, Sr., Movement ScienceCam Peel, Sr., Sport ManagementBence Szabados, Jr., EconomicsAndrew Trepanier, Sr., Mechanical EngineeringYugo Tsukikawa Jr., Jr., EconomicsJacque Wenger, So., Sport ManagementNoah Yarian, Sr., Business Administration

Women's Swimming and Diving (18)

Kathryn Ackerman, Sr., Biomedical EngineeringMadeleine Bauer, Sr., International StudiesLauren Cheetham, Sr., Political ScienceCasey Chung, Jr., Biopsychology, Cognition & NeuroscienceChrismon Clark, So., UNDECLAREDClaire Donan, Jr., Pharmaceutical StudiesMegan Glass, Sr., Data ScienceLucy Hogan, Sr., Political ScienceEvie Johnson, So., International StudiesNatalie Kan, Jr., Sport ManagementAbbey Ketslakh, So., Movement ScienceSophia Kudryashova, Sr., EconomicsClaire Newman, Sr., EnvironmentTaylor Peters, Sr., Biopsychology, Cognition & NeuroscienceLetitia Sim, So., Applied Exercise ScienceKatii Tang, Sr., PsychologySophia Tuinman, Sr., Computer ScienceMariella Venter, Sr., Business Administration

Wrestling (16)

Cameron Amine, Jr., Sport ManagementJoaquin Consuelos, So., ActingMatt Finesilver, Gr., Social WorkAustin Jordan, So., Computer ScienceDzhabrail Khurshidov, So., Applied Exercise ScienceWill Lewan, Sr., Environmental EngineeringCole Mattin, Sr., Biology, Health & SocietyZack Mattin, So., LSA UndeclaredMatt McKenna, Jr., Sport ManagementJack Medley, Gr., ManagementPat Nolan, Sr., Spanish & EconomicsKeegan Nugent, So., Mechanical EngineeringMason Parris, Sr., Civil EngineeringDylan Ragusin, Jr., Communication & MediaJoseph Walker, Jr., Biomolecular ScienceBrendin Yatooma, Jr., Economics

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