Month: November 2014
PBS chooses Nelson as public affairs v.p., Tri States Radio hires reporters, and other comings ...
Marie Nelson will collaborate with executive producers of icon series and independent producers to develop content and ways to engage audiences across ...BBC crafts module to take advantage of NPR clock changes
Responding to an opening created by changes to the clock for NPR’s Morning Edition, the BBC is rolling out a 90-second news module for insertion ...Avoid these cardinal sins in applying for public media jobs
I’ve hired a lot of folks over the past 35 years in broadcasting, and thankfully most have been good hires, some excellent, ...Indiana pubTV finance manager pleads guilty to stealing station funds
The former finance manager of WFWA-TV in Fort Wayne, Ind., has pleaded guilty to embezzling money from the PBS member station. In a ...Wednesday roundup: Ashbrook takes leave; BBC offers new morning module
Plus: Texas Tribune looks to the next five years, and the FCC fines a Massachusetts college.Three Localore projects receive additional funding
The Association of Independents in Radio announced that three projects from the first round of its Localore initiative will receive additional funding ...PBS weighs balance between free, premium access for launch of Plus
PBS is preparing for a pilot run of Membership Video on Demand, a premium service for station contributors, under the new name ...Joyce MacDonald joins CPB as first v.p. of journalism
CPB has hired former NPR executive Joyce MacDonald for the new position of vice president of journalism, it announced Tuesday. MacDonald will work ...Frank Mankiewicz, former NPR president, dies at 90
Frank Mankiewicz, a former NPR president credited with taking the fledgling network to new levels of professionalism while also overseeing its decline ...Faith in the Big House documents role of evangelical ministry in prisons
The Louisiana Public Broadcasting documentary focuses on five prisoners as their lives are changed by religious conversion.Current’s annual survey of productions in the works for public TV
More than 100 films are underway, soon to take viewers from sea to sky and everywhere in between.Jazz Ambassadors revisits time when Cold War diplomacy got hip
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — and a handy role in a Cold War propaganda campaign. In ...Director Stanley Nelson leads history trilogy with documentary on Black Panthers
The film will be the first in a three-part series about pivotal moments in African-American history.Car Talk co-host Tom Magliozzi dies at 77
Tom Magliozzi, half of Click and Clack on NPR’s Car Talk, the Tappet Brothers, died Monday of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 77. ...PRPD names Jody Evans president
Evans will step into the position Jan. 1.
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