Month: July 2017
Longtime D.C. pubcasting law firm dissolves, two attorneys move on
Schwartz, Woods & Miller helped many public broadcasters secure their first FCC licenses.Art Ellis: Failing out of freshman engineering got me hooked on public media
If WHYY's Art Ellis hadn't failed some of his core courses in college, he may not have discovered purpose and a new ...PMDMC features honors for departing CEO, awards for stations and leaders
Conference attendees bid farewell to outgoing Greater Public CEO Doug Eichten.NPR wins award to experiment with virtual-reality audio
The NPR project is among 11 winners of the Journalism 360 Challenge awards.Connecticut AM station goes off air after alleged lack of payments
The station’s future is yet to be determined.As it upgrades NPR One, NPR will promote app on-air
NPR also aims to improve how the app connects users to local stations.Hosts reveal the unseen forces at work on ‘Invisibilia’
Each episode of the NPR podcast can take up to four months to complete.Watch our screening and panel discussion of Marlon Riggs’ ‘Tongues Untied’
The latest installment in our "Get With the Program" series focuses on a groundbreaking 1991 film.PRI becomes investor in public radio’s ‘Live Wire’
The live variety show is adding episodes devoted to in-studio interviews.NPR colleagues send off longtime engineer Manoli Wetherell
A fellow engineer credits Wetherell with "creating NPR’s signature sound in thousands of mixes, often on deadline and many done live.”Pubcasting orgs in Alaska begin joint venture with shared leader
Alaska Public Broadcasting Inc. and CoastAlaska will work together as state funding declines.As Marc Steiner signs off, Baltimore loses a valuable democratic forum
More than anything else, the longtime talk show host's career has been dedicated to dismantling the racial divides that structure the city ...Pubcasters ask FCC to end station ID requirement
Other suggestions included revisiting “what constitutes actionable indecency.”ITVS backs Texas ‘taco journalists’ for digital series pilot
The pilot episode is set to begin filming in El Paso later this summer.Stations improve digital fundraising but still face challenges
Public broadcasters must adopt a "culture of testing" and tackle mobile.
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