Author: Andrew Lapin
Maurice Bernstein, NPR folk-music host, dies at 74
Maurice Bernstein, producer and host of one of NPR’s first nationally distributed music programs, Folk Music and Bernstein, died Nov. 9 at ...PBS renews Tavis Smiley through 2015
PBS has renewed its commitment to Tavis Smiley for another two years, keeping the talk show on public TV through 2015. “The highlight for me is ...WGBH, Library of Congress to host pubcasting’s American Archive
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. Boston’s WGBH and the Library of Congress will host and preserve the American ...NPR combining news apps, multimedia teams
NPR’s news applications and multimedia operations are merging into a single unit to be headed by current News Applications Editor Brian Boyer. “We ...Rehm to direct marketing for American Geophysical Union
Dana Davis Rehm, a former NPR senior v.p. and public radio station manager, is joining the American Geophysical Union as its director ...NPR News vets to reshape E.W. Scripps news strategy
DecodeDC, the political podcast and public radio show created by former NPR correspondent Andrea Seabrook, has been acquired by the E.W. Scripps commercial ...TPT rebrands youth initiative as ReWire
Twin Cities Public Television has adopted the name ReWire for the statewide network’s youth programming and engagement initiative. TPT settled on the ...Pat Fitzgerald, longtime WBGU g.m., dies at 69
Pat Fitzgerald, g.m. of WBGU-TV in Bowling Green, Ohio, for more than two decades, died Oct. 30 of a stroke in his ...WNYC’s homemade sensors provide new tools for detecting stories
WNYC is among the media outlets that are working to extend that domain to include members of their audiences, tapping into communities ...AIR, PRNDI partner on guidelines for radio freelancers
The Association of Independents in Radio and Public Radio News Directors Inc. are collaborating on a set of guidelines for local pubradio ...Elaine Rivera, former WNYC reporter, dies at 54
Elaine Rivera, a reporter for New York’s WNYC from 2006–09, died Oct. 26. She was 54. The cause of death has not ...Walter Sheppard, former grant officer for PTFP, dies at 82
Walter Sheppard, a veteran public radio general manager who worked for the federal government’s Public Telecommunications Facilities Program for more than two ...Start the presses: WHYY releases “print edition” of NewsWorks web site
To promote its online local news platform NewsWorks, Philadelphia’s WHYY developed an unconventional campaign mimicking over-the-top advertising techniques and the limitations of ...Focus on anti-terrorism becomes ‘life-changing’ story for filmmaker Poitras
After plumbing the global repercussions of America’s war against terrorism, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras helped expose how that war has stripped away ...CPM employees take union request to labor relations board
Editorial employees at Chicago Public Media filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board Oct 18 after earlier efforts ...
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