Year: 2010
Youth bring home RFK Journalism Awards for radio
Two of public radio’s youth media training units received 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for radio reporting. Youth Radio won in ...Virginia legislators vote to restore pubcasting funds
The Virginia General Assembly rejected a proposal to end subsidies for the state’s public television and radio stations. Republican Governor Bob McDonnell ...In shift to local newsgathering, Michigan Radio drops Environment Report
Michigan Radio will end national production of The Environment Report, a news service producing daily interstitial news spots, in June. Three staff ...NJN starts planning departure from state oversight
The New Jersey Network is beginning its transition to an independent nonprofit. Republican Gov. Chris Christie called for the pubcasters to sever ...APM affiliate agrees to buy FM in Palm Beach
After trying for five years to sell its public TV/radio combo in Palm Beach, Fla., Barry University has unloaded the FM station ...Nonprof news orgs and pubcasters take part in investigative reporting symposium
Pubcasters were well represented at the fourth annual Reva and David Logan Investigative Reporting Symposium this past weekend, sponsored by Berkeley University’s ...San Mateo’s KCSM rallying after serious funding woes
A donor has stepped forward with $400,000 to help struggling KCSM-TV/FM in San Mateo, Calif., reports the San Matean. The station is ...Jim DeRogatis brings his sound opinions to Vocalo.org
Music journalist Jim DeRogatis is leaving the Chicago Sun-Times to take a full-time teaching position at Columbia College Chicago and take up ...Get a peek at “Need to Know”
The promo for WNET’s new Need to Know is up, check it out here. The weekly news show premieres May 7. That ...Mobile giving a ‘no-brainer’ for TAL postcast audience
It’s not the best way to collect big annual gifts from station members, pubcasting fundraisers agree. But This American Life’s producers confirmed that giving-by-texting ...Incentives for ‘diversity, innovation’ come with big CPB grant to PBS
CPB and PBS are completing an agreement that may lead to the agency’s first annual grants for the PBS National Program Service ...Broadcasters still wary of “voluntary” spectrum giveback
TV execs weren’t very reassured after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s speech to the National Association of Broadcasters last week in Las Vegas, ...Virgina pubcasters latest to face state funding phase-out
“Gov. Bob McDonnell is gunning for Big Bird,” says the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. The GOP governor wants to phase out funding to the Community ...CPB requests $604 million for fiscal 2013
CPB President Pat Harrison appeared on the Hill this week to make the agency’s fiscal 2013 advance appropriation request of $604 million. ...FCC adviser to depart for post at Aspen Institute
Blair Levin, President Obama’s National Broadband Plan adviser, is leaving his work at the FCC for the Aspen Institute, Broadcasting & Cable ...
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