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Jesse Walker, writing in Salon, updates us on nascent efforts within the Pacifica network to revitalize its five stations.
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Have you linked to NPR’s website without permission? You’ll have to “live with the guilt forever,” NPR ombud Jeffrey Dvorkin tells Wired. (Update: The Poynter Institute’s Steve Outing joins the tide regarding the linking policy. His verdict: stupid.)
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Bloggers galore are thumbing their noses at NPR and violating its anti-linking policy. (See entry below.) Here’s a list of who’s doing it. (Update: the spanking continues ad infinitum at Slashdot.) (Via randomWalks.)
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Michael Apted, a British director whose excellent 7 Up series of documentaries has aired on PBS stateside, moves to A&E for his new project Married In America.
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The layoffs keep coming. KERA-TV/FM in Dallas cut almost a quarter of its staff (36 employees) and cancelled a radio talk show Thursday, according to a DallasNews.com report.
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NPR deserves credit for aggressively covering foreign news even as other news outlets scale back overseas, writes network ombud Jeffrey Dvorkin in his latest “Media Matters” column.
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NPR’s Daniel Schorr will commemorate the 30th anniversary of Watergate by hosting a series of specials next week, according to the Buffalo News.
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Life 360 takes its second shot at finding an audience in new episodes airing this summer, Elizabeth Jensen reports in the L.A. Times.
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Public radio producer Nancy Updike writes up “National Corporate Radio,” a shrill spoof of NPR, in the LA Weekly. (Via MediaNews.)
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Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.) introduced the Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DOIT) June 11. Modeled on a proposal by Larry Grossman and Newton Minow, it would invest proceeds from spectrum auctions into an educational trust fund (bill text). Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) offered a similar bill last month (bill text).
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In a USA Today op-ed, Pat Mitchell challenges the 18-34 demo to turn off Fear Factor and Survivor and turn on TV that informs and inspires.
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WHYY laid off ten employees last week, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report. President Bill Marrazzo said the cuts will offset rising membership dues to NPR and PBS. (Second item.)
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Public broadcasting might draw accusations of liberal bias, but a new Pew Research Center report says conservatives take in more PBS and NPR programming than liberals do, according to The Washington Times. (Second item.)
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Daljit Dhaliwal of ITN has signed with CNN, where she’ll anchor World News, reports The Guardian. (That little pic of Dhaliwal comes from The Unofficial Daljit Dhaliwal Appreciation Page, which has links to other coverage of the CNN signing, as well as a “SimDaljit” you can download for the Sims computer game.)
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Raquel Welch (born Jo-Raquel Tejada) is “strutting her ethnicity” for the first time in the PBS drama American Family.
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The proliferation of kids’ media and new thinking about how children watch TV have forced Sesame Street to catch up with the times, says a New York Times piece. (Related Current article, 11/19/01.)
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The FCC will hold two open meetings June 27 to hear public comment about WFUV-FM’s plans to shorten its broadcasting tower to keep it near the New York Botanical Garden. ‘FUV and the Garden have been fighting over the tower’s location for six years, according to ‘FUV’s website. Here’s the FCC’s announcement in PDF, text and Word formats.