Year: 2010
Battle brewing over proposed staff cuts at KPFA
More than 100 people joined a picket outside Pacifica’s KPFA-FM in Berkeley yesterday (Nov. 4), protesting staff cuts proposed by Pacifica Foundation ...End of state funding kills Ready to Learn at KEET
State support for Ready to Learn at KEET-TV in Eureka, Calif., was discontinued last month, ending the program that had been a ...Revived web association IMA sets its conference at SXSW in Austin
After a hiatus and reorganization, Integrated Media Association will hold its 2011 conference on March 10 and 11 at the start of ...“Frontline” re-cuts segment with official after complaint from Interior Department
Frontline has re-cut a broadcast interview with an administration official in which one of his responses was used to answer a different question. Every ...Production ending this season for “The Desert Speaks”
Arizona Public Media’s The Desert Speaks, winner of 24 regional and national Emmys and distributed nationwide by American Public Television, is ending production. Tom ...KCET hires editor-in-chief to head up new community blogging operation
KCET is developing a community-based content and blogging operation, and has created a new position to oversee the work, it announced today. ...NBR plans weekly segment on business of sports
Nightly Business Report today (Nov. 4) announced a new weekly feature, “Beyond the $coreboard,” that “gives viewers in-depth analysis of the biggest sports stories ...After a busy election night, PBS NewsHour is reviewing web activity
Just as some election officials continue to count midterm ballots from Tuesday’s (Nov. 2) vote, PBS NewsHour is tallying up web visitors for its ...V-me to carry World Series of Boxing competitions
V-me, the 24/7 Spanish network that’s a popular multicast channel on public TV stations, had secured broadcast rights to the World Series ...Integrated Media Association webinar Wednesday
Jeannie Ericson, executive director of the Integrated Media Association, will be online with iMA board members Tim Olson and Milton Clipper for ...Nevada adds Vegas PBS’s online education program to state-approved list
Vegas PBS’s Vegas Virtual online education program is now part of the Nevada state-approved training provider list, the station said today (Nov. ...Consultants, groups aim to fill voids as PBS Development shifts focus
“We must work differently” in an era of flat membership dues and other funding constraints, said Joyce Herring, PBS’s senior v.p. of ...NPR’s Juan Williams fired for one too many opinionated comment
NPR President Vivian Schiller has apologized to public radio for how she and her executives handled last month’s dismissal of news analyst ...NPR sets a goal: add 100 reporters to statehouse beats
A multiyear initiative led by NPR, Impact of Government, eventually will put two additional state-level reporters to work in each of the ...NCME brings onboard director of television and digital media engagement
The National Center for Media Engagement has hired Jennifer MacArthur as its director of television and digital media engagement, the NCME said ...
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