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‘PBS NewsHour’ announces February Democratic debate in Milwaukee
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The program will be a joint production with Milwaukee Public Television and WUWM-FM.
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The program will be a joint production with Milwaukee Public Television and WUWM-FM.
Foo talks about her frank and funny manifesto for Transom, “What To Do If Your Workplace Is Too White.”
The televised town hall about race that aired Sept. 21 boasted a social media and digital campaign that was one of PBS’s most dynamic.
After criticism, Gwen Ifill elaborated on three words she attached to a White House retweet.
Rev. Clementa Pinckney appeared in the 2013 PBS documentary ‘The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’
The media outlets are looking for more ways to collaborate.
The public broadcaster is “reimagining the very core” of its “educational value proposition.”
NPR’s monthly podcast downloads increased 42 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to the study.
CPB reacted Jan. 8 to the attack on journalists at the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo by announcing grants totaling $7.5 million to four public media newsrooms.
“Now more than ever it takes so much courage to be a journalist,” said CPB President Pat Harrison in an to public media managers. “To understand that every word you may write, every cartoon you might draw could be your last. The chilling effect this can have may result in stories not told, reports not filed, journalism watered down.” CPB awarded the grants in memory of eight journalists who were killed. The money is given “in support of freedom of the press and freedom of expression,” Harrison said.
Plus: MoJo‘s nonprofit mojo, and Judy Woodruff’s biscuits.
Four specialized charities cultivating big donations to benefit some of PBS’s most popular programs are gaining traction in the crowded and competitive world of public TV fundraising.
Plus: American Graduate Day carriage grows, and a NewsHour segment prompts scrutiny.
Three years ago, a delegation from Kansas City Public Television, including the board chair, trekked out to San Diego’s KPBS to evaluate how that station’s extensive radio, television and online news operation might be adapted in Kansas City. A few months later, an influential visitor to Kansas City, PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer, urged KCPT leaders to act on their nascent ambitions to develop a locally focused news service for the community. Over dinner at the restaurant Lidia’s, Lehrer “kind of threw the gauntlet down,” recalled Kliff Kuehl, KCPT president, challenging executives to step up the station’s commitment to news coverage. But the proposal to transform KCPT into a true local news hub remained mostly an aspiration until a surprise major grant from the Hale Family Foundation arrived in July 2013. Only then was the station able to turn its ambitions into something substantive and seemingly sustainable.
CPB has promoted two executives, Greg Schnirring and Erika Pulley-Hayes.
The appointment ends a months-long search to replace Linda Winslow, who has worked on the weeknightly news program since the mid-1970s.
WETA’s board of trustees unanimously authorized the transfer, which does not involve any cash, at a June 17 meeting in Arlington, Va.
In the first installment of our interview with Linda Winslow, outgoing e.p. of PBS NewsHour, she discussed her early start in broadcast journalism and working with Fred Friendly, a founding father of public broadcasting. In this, the second of three parts, she discusses the start of the NewsHour, working as a woman in media, and the NewsHour’s commitment to its mission. Part three will be posted next week. This transcript has been edited. Current: What did you do next after Public Broadcasting Laboratory?
Linda Winslow rose from covering a fireman’s muster in small-town Massachusetts to leading a signature news program on public TV.
• Less than a week after the maker of the wildly popular mobile game Flappy Bird announced he would pull the plug on his creation, Sesame Workshop has introduced the browser game Flappy Bert. The gameplay, where players control a bird as it navigates Sesame Street’s Bert among obstacles, draws heavily on the original. It’s one of several Flappy Bird clones on the market but the only one starring Bert in an 8-bit sheen. • Today marks the premiere of a series of web video specials co-produced by PBS NewsHour and Al-Monitor, a news site featuring reporting and analysis by journalists and experts from the Middle East. The first, posting at 7 p.m. Eastern time, focuses on Syria.
Everything But The News is a comedy web series following the exploits of a technology-illiterate producer attempting to file reports on the San Francisco tech sector for the PBS NewsHour.