Author: Andrew Lapin
Guitar allegedly owned by Dylan sets new auction record, thanks to History Detectives
A guitar played by Bob Dylan at his famous Newport Folk Festival appearance in 1965 sold for nearly $1 million Friday, two ...Bruce Franchini, veteran pubTV producer and director, dies at 69
Bruce Franchini, a producer and director for San Francisco’s KQED-TV, died Nov. 13 of cancer. He was 69.Dotcom entrepreneur invests $250K in Swell app
Jason Calacanis is betting big on Swell, the five-month-old app that curates podcasts and news reports. The angel investor, who co-founded the ...Follow Planet Money’s Kickstarted T-shirt odyssey
The cotton T-shirt, a public radio merchandising staple, is front-and-center in a new multimedia project from NPR's economics reporting unit Planet Money.Robert Shepherd, veteran Nashville pubTV g.m., dies at 80
Robert Shepherd, longtime g.m. of the TV station that would become Nashville Public Television, died Nov. 21 at his Nashville home after ...Film revisits Freedom Summer for a new generation
Freedom Summer, a documentary directed by Stanley Nelson, recounts the turbulent 10-week period, focusing on efforts by the Council of Federated Organizations ...Comedian Dave Hill will move into Best Show slot on WFMU
New Jersey–based freeform community radio station WFMU will replace The Best Show on WFMU in January with a program hosted by comedian ...Growth in aid to media foundations aimed mostly at web-based efforts
Foundation support for media-related activities increased 21 percent between 2009 and 2011, according to a study that examined how private philanthropies responded ...Robert Conley, first host of All Things Considered, dies at 85
Robert Conley, the first host of NPR’s All Things Considered, died of parotid cancer Nov. 16 at his home in Virginia. He was 85. ...American Archive lands with WGBH, Library of Congress
Together, WGBH and the LOC will digitize and store more than 40,000 hours of content.PBS Digital Studios science show in hot water for off-color video
A PBS Digital Studios program is dealing with blowback from online viewers and the PBS ombudsman for using bobblehead dolls to caricature ...PBS streaming app now on Apple TV
Apple has signed PBS to create an app for its Apple TV set-top box service, AllThingsD reported Nov. 19. The app will ...Diversified revenues are key to sustainability, Knight study finds
Nonprofit news organizations have made significant progress in developing healthy and sustainable revenue streams, according to a recent study by the Knight ...Samuel English III, Aviation Weather host, dies at 79
Samuel James English III, host of Aviation Weather, a series produced and distributed by Maryland Public Television in the 1970s, died Nov. 3 of ...Raul Ramirez, longtime news director at KQED, dies at 67
Raul Ramirez, executive director of news and public affairs at San Francisco’s KQED, died Nov. 15 in Berkeley. He was 67 and ...
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