Month: June 2010
PBS NewsHour seeking ideas to keep its BP oil spill video feed streaming
A Gulf Leak Meter widget and live video stream of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have provided PBS NewsHour with ...WTVI salvages nearly $100,000 from proposed $860,000 county cuts
While state budget woes continue to threaten public broadcasters, WTVI in Charlotte, N.C., is running into county funding problems. Mecklenburg County provides ...Fellow grantmakers salute Wallace Foundation for funding “The Principal” on P.O.V.
Next Sunday the funder of The Principal Story, a doc that aired in September on P.O.V., will receive the first Woodward A. Wickham Award for ...Vivian Schiller at D8: We’re NPR, not National Public Radio
NPR President Vivian Schiller said some very provocative things this morning at D8, the Wall Street Journal‘s All Things Digital conference, according ...Caution: Tweeting while eating ahead
The PBS Annual Meeting in Austin earlier this month may be over, but it continues to generate vital news: KQED is announcing ...Ready to Compete Act would add to Ready to Learn program
Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth of Kentucky has introduced H.R. 5477, the Ready To Compete Act, that would fund pubTV’s Ready to Learn ...iPhone users push back on TAL’s push for donations
In its latest experiment with soliciting text donations, This American Life used the push notification system on its iPhone app to ask ...Smiley terrorism comments prompt letters to PBS ombudsman
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler takes on comments on Tavis Smiley’s show that have created a bit of a buzz in the conservative ...FTC paper advises increase in pubcasting funds as part of “reinvention of journalism”
A draft copy of a Federal Trade Commission paper on bolstering journalism includes recommendations to spend more money on CPB, and establish ...Public radio people on the move
Liane Hansen, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday since 1989, plans to leave the program next May. She’ll be visiting public radio ...Bowling Green’s WKYU first pubstation to go green with LED lighting
WKYU in Bowling Green, Ky., said in a statement today that it is the first PBS affiliate in the country to use ...Most Americans pleased with home broadband speed, says FCC study
The Federal Communications Commission today (June 1) released a survey showing that 91 percent of respondents were either “very satisfied” or “somewhat ...Get tips on public insight journalism at NCME/APM webinar
“Public Insight Journalism = New Voices, New Stories” is the subject of tomorrow’s (June 2) webinar from the National Center for Media ...With RFP, PBS pursues ‘Explorer Archetype’ in productions
From PBS’s June 2010 request for primetime series proposals to be funded by the CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund. See also Current feature ...
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