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Greater Public names Joyce MacDonald as CEO
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The announcement brings an end to a two-year search to replace longtime President Doug Eichten.
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The announcement brings an end to a two-year search to replace longtime President Doug Eichten.
Sara Schapiro recently helped found Digital Promise, an independent bipartisan nonprofit that backs educational innovation.
Last year’s letter was signed by a bipartisan group of 132 members of the House.
Organizers delivered petitions to members of Congress, bearing 660,000 signatures gathered online to save CPB funding.
The petitions contain more than 660,000 signatures of public broadcasting supporters.
PBS’s Beth Hoppe said her team is eyeing other American dramas.
Small and midsize stations must be especially creative in developing ways to engage and grow their pools of major donors.
Running for the first 100 days of the Trump presidency, the show wants to break down stereotypes and misperceptions by soliciting personal stories, not rants, from listeners across the country.
Future appropriations are also at risk.
But the governor indicated he expects the state-run network to transition to university oversight.
Among the report’s findings is that social platforms — such as church services, hot-dog wagons and food pantries — are as important as social media for the future of public media.
The study by the Classical Music Rising initiative identifies a need for training and more diverse staffing.
A long-pending proposal would allow noncommercial stations to devote up to 1 percent of their annual air time to raising funds for other nonprofits.
“The policy is, we’re ending federal involvement with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” said Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.
CPB and Eagle Hill Consulting are asking all local stations — radio, TV and joint licensees — to complete the assessment by March 31.
The podcast aims to be a resource for schools lacking music education.
From its origins, NPR emphasized contributions from women at a time when they were rarely heard in positions of authority in broadcasting.
To make sure our programs are accessible to seniors with hearing loss, let’s set standards for mixing dialogue, music and sound.
Jarl Mohn was released from the hospital last week.
Current’s latest survey on upcoming public television productions looks ahead at the river of content from PBS signature series, independent producers, minority consortia and public TV stations.