Year: 2006
‘Jimmy Jimmy BoBo’ Lehrer Makes Birthday Party Newsworthy
The Washington Post reports that a three-year-old Minnesotan boy recently enjoyed a very special birthday party with, of all things, a NewsHour with Jim Lehrer theme. ...OTM interview about Public Insight Journalism
For the professional media, Public Insight Journalism is the way it can remain relevant [RealPlayer audio file], says Michael Skoler of Minnesota ...calendarlive.com: 800 WORDS – Laugh liberally
A Los Angeles Times writer examines the conservative’s distaste for A Prairie Home Companion. “With the arrival of Robert Altman’s new film ‘A Prairie Home Companion,’ ...NPR : Ultra Avant-Garde Radio
Hear what happens when an NPR producer processes the network’s programming through a Dada filter.Paid product placement said to be widespread
Here’s another chance for public broadcasters to demonstrate their trustworthiness … or not. Even Advertising Age says: “Something’s rotten with the state of media.” ...House committee restores $20 mil to CPB
The House Appropriations committee restored $20 million to CPB’s 2007 funding, but didn’t alter its proposals to eliminate $104.5 million in federal ...Atlas to exit PBS this month
Another change to the PBS executive ranks: Los Angeles-based Co-Chief Programmer Jacoba Atlas will leave her job at the end of the ...PBS hires KQED’s John Boland
John Boland, executive v.p. of San Francisco’s KQED-TV/FM, will join PBS in September as chief content officer. His hiring, announced at today’s ...Mermigas column on PBS
“New-media’s consumer-supported business model is not much different from public broadcasting’s long-standing membership pledges and corporate sponsorships,” observes media writer Diane Mermigas ...Conrad on HD Radio
Robert Conrad, president of WCLV-FM in Cleveland, says the technological shortcomings of HD Radio “[are] really very discouraging and [are] leading us ...Charlie Rose returns after recovering from surgery
Charlie Rose returns to his round table tonight after emergency heart surgery interrupted on overseas trip in March, AP reports. Topic No. ...James Barrett dies
James Barrett, NPR’s first public relations director and a former director of public information for New York’s WNET, died of pneumonia June ...Louisville Courier-Journal: New team running public radio stations
Board members and senior staffers are running the Public Radio Partnership in Louisville, Ky., in the absence of a permanent president, reports ...Who’s fighting for rightward balance at CPB?
As pubcasting girds for another fight over federal funding, the Washington Times asks “public TV insiders of a conservative bent” whether the rightward cause ...Major pubTV history series backed by NEH
National Endowment for the Humanities announced yesterday $5 million in TV grants to projects including WETA’s four-hour The Jewish Americans; WGBH’s We Shall Remain, a five-parter ...
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