Year: 2013
LPB content grants go to nine programs, including two web series
Latino Public Broadcasting announced today that it is backing nine programs through its Public Media Content Fund, which supports Latino-themed content for ...WFMT appoints new PD, Third Coast hires managing director, and more comings and goings in ...
Sarah Geis, Third Coast's new managing editor, "listens avidly to audio stories of all stripes, and she’s dedicated to supporting producers while ...CPB grants $1.4M to new Local Journalism Center focusing on energy
CPB will award $1.4 million to seven public radio and TV stations for the creation of a new Local Journalism Center covering ...Seventeen stations win grants from POV for outreach on education docs
One of the films, Brooklyn Castle, looks at a junior-high chess squad that has won more than 30 national championships, more than any other ...David Isay gets help running StoryCorps with new chief executive
StoryCorps has hired its first chief executive in its decade-long history, reports the New York Times. Robin Sparkman, currently editor in chief of The American Lawyer magazine, joins the Brooklyn-based ...PBS selects Vecchi to replace McCoskey as chief network engineer
PBS has named Mario Vecchi chief technology officer, calling the former AOL executive “a world-class technologist.” Starting Jan. 27, Vecchi will oversee distribution ...Facebook adds ‘Donate’ button for nonprofits
A new feature added to Facebook on Monday allows donors to give directly to charities by clicking on a “donate now” button. “The ...Producers take podcast covering marketing innovations to pubradio distribution
Ad man and podcaster Mike O’Toole has teamed up with veteran pubradio producer Jim Russell to adapt a narrative-focused business podcast into ...Virginia stations signal intent to hop on joint master-control bandwagon
Virginia public broadcasters WCVE and WVPT are the latest stations to come together to form a joint master control. Starting as early as ...Is “no one in public radio” qualified to head up NPR?
According to pubradio consultant John Sutton, several sources close to the NPR Board say that “current and past CEO search committees have ...Flatow finds more traction for ‘Science Friday’ in PRI distribution
After two decades as a weekly NPR program, the 22-year-old Science Friday is preparing to shake things up. With its move to Public Radio ...Grants, donations to NPR support expanded reporting, app for personalized listening
NPR has lined up $17 million in grants and individual gifts to expand two beat-reporting units and to complete development of an ...Bobby Jackson, public radio jazz fixture, dies at 57
Bobby Jackson, a longtime jazz host, producer and program director, died Dec. 9 at his home in Cleveland. He was 57. Jackson ...Pubmedia stations, initiatives on list of latest Art Works grants from NEA
Alabama Public Television, WHYY, Transom.org and New York Public Radio are among the grantees.OPB meets funding goal for new Southwest Washington bureau
12/16/13: This item has been updated. Oregon Public Broadcasting is preparing to open a permanent bureau in Southwest Washington state by early 2014, and ...
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