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The leaders of KUT and KERA spoke about how they’re managing the crisis in a webinar produced by Current, Greater Public, Public Radio Program Directors and the Public Media Journalists Association.
The outgoing CEO of KERA reflects on women in leadership roles, the need to collaborate, and why you should never tape a program on the first day of daylight saving time.
Plan ahead, include the whole staff, and other tips for being ready when major news breaks.
Tuesday’s show will air live on each station at 1 p.m. Central time and can also be heard on their online streams.
The North Texas newsroom jumped into action when Dallas police officers were ambushed at a protest of police violence.
“The Broken Hip” received widespread recognition, including an Online News Association award.
The initiative grows out of the stations’ partnership on producing the daily newsmagazine Texas Standard.
WLRN in Miami won large-market radio Murrows for feature reporting and use of sound. Chicago’s WBEZ also won for news documentary and hard-news reporting. The award for investigative reporting went to KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting, both based in San Francisco, for “Broken Shield: Exposing Abuses at California Developmental Centers.”
The Lyda Hill Foundation has donated $1 million to Dallas pubcaster KERA to expand regional news coverage. The donation comes on the heels of the foundation’s 2011 support for KERA’s reporting on health and science issues that included sponsorship of the station’s weekly “Health Checkup” segment. The Lyda Hill Foundation focuses on funding organizations “that make game-changing advances in nature and science research.”
“As a KERA viewer, listener and donor, I recognized the importance of funding such a vital community resource,” Hill said in a prepared statement. “This gift is also meant to inspire others to support the kind of local news stories and reporting not found anywhere else in North Texas.”
The foundation listed total assets of $5.3 million according to its IRS Form 990 for the year ending Nov. 20, 2011.
Bring out your dead, practice your silly walks, and steel yourselves for something completely different, yet strangely familiar. PBS is launching a video onslaught of Monty Python humor—the classics as well as the humorists’ annotated favorites and an acclaimed sequel of sorts. PBS has scheduled Monty Python’s Personal Best, a pastiche of new material and clips from the TV series and movies, for Feb. 22, March 1 and 8. Separately, PBS will release all the naughty bits — the 45 original 30-minute episodes of Monty Python’s Flying Circus — this spring.
