Year: 2013
Pet-themed fund drives spur pledges from animal-loving listeners
Grady the dog and other critters are becoming members of their local pubmedia stations, boosting donations and getting special premiums.Web series explores what Black Folk Don’t do
Doing yoga, going green and enjoying winter sports sound like innocuous topics for a public media web series — that is, until ...NPR newscasters sign off for final time after taking buyouts
It was a bittersweet broadcast of NPR’s Morning Edition Dec. 20 as the show and network said goodbye to five staffers who opted to take an ...Omidyar and Greenwald’s new journalism venture will be incorporated nonprofit
First Look Media, a new journalism organization backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and headed by former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, will include a 501(c)3 ...After 30 years, still no meetings or memos for Shearer’s Le Show
Harry Shearer’s eclectic, acidic Le Show marks 30 years on public radio this month, and The Associated Press observes the milestone with an in-depth ...Richard Heffner, WNET pioneer and TV host, dies at 88
Richard Heffner, the founding g.m. of New York’s WNET/Thirteen network and longtime host of public affairs program The Open Mind, died in ...PBS programming vet Wilson, education s.v.p. Lippincott exiting in January
Two more senior v.p.s are leaving PBS: John Wilson, a PBS programmer for nearly 20 years, and Rob Lippincott, who has led the network’s ...NPR talent leader Schmidt leaves to start recruiting company
Lars Schmidt, the senior director of talent acquisition and innovation at NPR, is leaving his position to form his own company, he ...TV critic questions NewsHour reruns, pubcasting author segments
Is PBS NewsHour padding its content with previously aired segments and infomercials for books authored by pubcasters? Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik believes so. Today he notes that ...Chicago Public Media editorial staffers vote to join SAG-AFTRA union
The broadcast union SAG-AFTRA said Wednesday that it had secured a majority of votes to represent staff members at Chicago Public Media. SAG-AFTRA ...Indie producer Michael Kirk receives honorary degree from his alma mater
Kirk, a key contributor to PBS’s Frontline since its inception, was cited for his body of work in producing more than 200 investigative documentaries. ...PBS hires former DNC adviser as new v.p. of station services
Juan Sepúlveda, former senior adviser for Hispanic affairs for the Democratic National Committee, joins PBS Jan. 6 as senior vice president of ...Jury convicts off-duty deputy in shooting death of NewsHour shuttle driver
A sheriff’s deputy has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a PBS NewsHour shuttle driver last May, reports the Washington Post. After two days of deliberations, ...CIR, POV, This American Life among 2014’s duPont-Columbia winners
The awards ceremony honoring excellence in broadcast and digital journalism will take place Jan. 21.Will news organizations follow as audio moves beyond radio?
In 2014, smart radio organizations will consider a “mobile-first audio strategy,” predicts Jim Schachter, news v.p. at WNYC in New York, in a ...
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