The agency behind communications for CNCF, Red Hat and Workday also makes documentaries about software. Its most useful idea: find the people inside the technical story.
The punk magazine that became a media empire lost the economics before it lost the audience. Its second act is smaller, stranger and surprisingly practical: finance the shows, license the brand and let partners carry the machinery.
GBH helped turn science, history, children’s television and investigative reporting into American rituals. Now the 75-year-old public-media producer is trying to carry that trust from the broadcast schedule into an on-demand world.