Year: 2010
University cancels ag doc to ensure it’s “scientifically sound”; was to air on TPT
The decision by the University of Minnesota to cancel broadcast of the documentary “Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story,” continues to generate ...At the Movies returns in 2011 with new cast, Ebert producing
Renowned movie critic Roger Ebert, who literally owns the trademarked thumbs-up/thumbs-down gesture, is returning to public TV, where he started his on-air ...HoustonPBS selects Torres-Burd as executive content director
Patricia Torres-Burd is the new executive director of content at HoustonPBS/KUHT, the licensee announced today (Sept. 20). She will develop and coordinate ...Management deal a likely outcome for WBFO in Buffalo
Two Buffalo pubradio licensees may be moving toward a licensee management agreement under which independent nonprofit WNED would operate the university-owned WBFO, ...Search is on for new NPR ombudsman
NPR is looking for a new ombudsman, reports the Ombuds Blog (“News and Information For and About Organizational Ombuds”). The blog says ...What readers say about Current, 2010
Here’s a piece of unfinished business: reporting back the results of Current’s reader survey taken at the start of the year, with thanks ...Study sees growth if NPR loosens up, sounds less elite
A new study for NPR identifies a much bigger potential news audience for public radio if producers craft shows to be ...Thinking outside the core
While our audience stereotypes may be better informed than they were 40 years ago, they can blind us to our potential ...Former Florida pubcaster now heads International Broadcasting Bureau
The U.S. Senate on Thursday (Sept. 16) confirmed Dick Lobo, former c.e.o. of WEDU in Tampa, Fla., as director of the International ...Kling supports net neutrality in letter to FCC
In a five-page letter Thursday (Sept. 16), outgoing Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media founder Bill Kling advises the FCC to ...Kachingle update: Not much to report
Remember Kachingle (Current, Nov. 23, 2009)? Seven months ago when the online micropayment service launched it was touted as a potential savior ...NJN, legislature unsure of strategy for network departure, paper says
Hearings continue on the fate of the New Jersey Network. A 10-member panel heard testimony Thursday (Sept. 16) at Stockton College in ...PBS needs to run American-made fiction programming, writer says
Where’s the quality American dramas and comedies on PBS? That’s what writer David Pierotti is wondering in the latest Independent online mag ...President announces STEM Video Game Challenge, co-sponsored by Cooney Center
A competition co-sponsored by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop was announced by President Obama today (Sept. 16) at ...Lost in space? Check out pubcasting network’s online geospatial project
Penn State Public Broadcasting’s interesting online series, “The Geospatial Revolution Project,” went online Wednesday (Sept. 15) to explore how geospatial information transforms ...
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