Year: 2010
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Public media needs coding collaborators. That’s what pubcaster Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices writes in today’s (Nov. 22) Hacks/Hackers blog. Large pubradio stations have ...New NBR owner agreed to leave instructional content field in 2000, New York Times reports
In a followup to a Current investigation (Aug. 23 and Sept. 7), the New York Times reports today (Nov. 22) that Mykalai Kontilai, the new ...A look back over a tough week for NPR
The Week, a digest newsmag, has a good gathering of links to last week’s coverage of the ongoing attacks on NPR and its government funding. One ...NJN’s future must move beyond traditional TV, group hears
A group of 40 New Jersey officials and pubcasting leaders met for more than eight hours Friday (Nov. 19) to hear advice ...WBUR’s La Camera stepping down as g.m.
WBUR General Manager Paul La Camera is departing his post at the end of the year, he told the staff at a station meeting today ...Roger Ebert: NPR is “the voice of our better nature”
Leave it to Roger Ebert to pen a love letter to NPR. The movie critic (and prolific blogger) today (Nov. 19) came ...Linda O’Bryon new president of South Carolina ETV
South Carolina Educational Television has hired Linda O’Bryon, former chief of content at Northern California Public Broadcasting, as its new president and ...Nielsen loses accreditation for 154 diary-only markets
The Media Rating Council, which ensures standards of audience measurement, has removed accreditation for Nielsen’s measurement of its 154 diary-only markets, retroactive ...PBS ombudsman wades into Fey fray
Producers made “a big mistake, one that was virtually certain to come back and bit them and PBS,” by editing out Tina ...Reps. Barton, Burgess request probe of NPR funding, Williams firing
Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Michael Burgess have called for a Government Accountability Office investigation of NPR’s funding. In a letter ...Breaking news: House votes down attempt to kill NPR funding
The House of Representatives today (Nov. 18) voted down a move to defund NPR, in the first Republican-ordered floor vote since the ...Vegas PBS reveals specific per-viewer program costs for its new pledge approach
Las Vegas PBS/Channel 10 is handling pledge in a very different way this season. “We are the only station in the U.S. ...Letter writer hopes to rally community to receive PBS programming
In the midst of all the talk of defunding CPB, here’s a letter to the editor to boost your spirits. Reader Jon ...Fox News chief says NPR execs are “Nazis”
In an interview with Howard Kurtz of The Daily Beast, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes unleashes on those who challenge the rightward ...FCC calls Tribal Issues Commission meeting for March in D.C.
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, speaking to the National Congress of American Indians Wednesday (Nov. 7) in Albuquerque, announced a Tribal Issues Commission ...
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