Author: Andrew Lapin
PMP ‘ark’ prepares to board; partners ready first deployments
As the Public Media Platform prepares for its phased rollout across the system in January, Executive Director Kristen Calhoun is seeking opportunities ...Web series explores what Black Folk Don’t do
Doing yoga, going green and enjoying winter sports sound like innocuous topics for a public media web series — that is, until ...Omidyar and Greenwald’s new journalism venture will be incorporated nonprofit
First Look Media, a new journalism organization backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and headed by former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, will include a 501(c)3 ...Richard Heffner, WNET pioneer and TV host, dies at 88
Richard Heffner, the founding g.m. of New York’s WNET/Thirteen network and longtime host of public affairs program The Open Mind, died in ...NPR talent leader Schmidt leaves to start recruiting company
Lars Schmidt, the senior director of talent acquisition and innovation at NPR, is leaving his position to form his own company, he ...CIR, POV, This American Life among 2014’s duPont-Columbia winners
The awards ceremony honoring excellence in broadcast and digital journalism will take place Jan. 21.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 ...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 ...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 ...Changes at KPCC: Station closes Sacramento bureau, launches iPad app, keeps hiring
Los Angeles’s KPCC is shuffling news priorities. As LA Observed reports, the station is closing its bureau in the state capital and cutting ...University board approves St. Louis Public Radio merger with St. Louis Beacon
St. Louis Public Radio and the St. Louis Beacon, a nonprofit news site, merged Dec. 10. The partners have yet to decide how ...Next goal for American Archive: 5,000 more hours of content
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is aiming to add another 5,000 hours of digitally native or previously digitized content to supplement ...Rock, rot and rule: Best Show ends as Tom Scharpling looks to a life beyond WFMU
From WFMU’s tiny studios in Jersey City, N.J., using only rock songs, his own creativity and contributions of guests and callers, Scharpling ...Phil Charles, former g.m. of Montana’s KGLT-FM, dies at 65
Phil Charles, retired longtime g.m. of KGLT-FM in Bozeman, Mont., died Nov. 29 of heart failure at his home in Cape May ...PBS partners with UK producers for Nova special on Typhoon Haiyan
PBS and United Kingdom–based Sky Vision Productions are collaborating on a pair of documentaries about Typhoon Haiyan, to air in both countries, ...
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