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NPR adds Congress editor from CNN
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NPR also announced the head of a station collaboration on election coverage.
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NPR also announced the head of a station collaboration on election coverage.
The wireless carrier and a team from PBS are working under tight deadlines to find new homes for public TV translators that are being displaced by the FCC’s repack of TV channels.
The university will air a variety format on a station purchased from Community Wireless of Park City.
The show will be hosted by Margaret Hoover, a political commentator and Republican strategist.
Schaffer founded the J-Lab journalism institute and has taught media entrepreneurship and social journalism.
Director Morgan Neville got approval for his film from Rogers’ estate by promising to focus on “the things he stood for.”
The former host of Rough Cut: Woodworking with Tommy Mac says WGBH is profiting off his image with a new season of the show.
If approved by the Senate, Ruby Calvert and Laura Gore Ross would serve on the board until 2022.
The longtime rival stations now aim to become a hub for original public media content.
An outside law firm reported that bullying behavior was “known and tolerated in certain circumstances for months or even years.”
Mississippi Public Broadcasting is the first public media organization to work with Softgiving, a financial technology company that lets donors round up payments and give the change to nonprofits.
Latino Public Radio was airing on a signal owned by Rhode Island Public Radio, which now aims to sell the station.
Konner was a “model executive producer” with “high journalistic standards, sharp intellect, and the eye for a good story, well-told.”
And an NPR utensil good Samaritan is at work helping out the forkless.
CPB also asked for $20 million for interconnection and $30 million for Ready To Learn.
Three other crew members suffered minor injuries.
Also, WGBH honors host Eric Jackson’s 40th anniversary as the “Dean of Boston Jazz Radio.”
Engineers are examining signal performance, testing interactive functionalities and checking cable integration.
The new show Beta is the first production spawned by WPR Next, an initiative to generate new programming ideas.
“He remains in my mind an exemplar of what it means to be both a broadcaster, and a person,” said Wait Wait host Peter Sagal.