''Next Avenue'' is a digital platform launched by
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu ...
that offers original and aggregated journalism aimed at
baby boomers
Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the Western demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964, during the mid-20th century baby boom. Th ...
. It is PBS' first venture to begin on the Internet rather than on broadcast television, and was conceived and developed at
Twin Cities Public Television
Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (abbreviated TPT, doing business as Twin Cities PBS) is a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Twin Cities' two PBS member television stations, KTCA-TV (channe ...
(TPT) in St. Paul, Minnesota. The website was launched on May 15, 2012.
In 2015, ''Next Avenue'' began publishing an annual list of the top 50 "Influencers in Aging", a recognition of "advocates, researchers, thought leaders, innovators, writers and experts
hocontinue to push beyond traditional boundaries and change our understanding of what it means to grow older."
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Online magazines published in the United States
Internet properties established in 2012
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