Author: Andrew Lapin
FOIA Machine, backed by CIR, makes it big on Kickstarter
A Kickstarter campaign has given a boost to FOIA Machine, a project from employees of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting that ...Mikel Ellcessor resigns from WDET for position with Krista Tippett
Mikel Ellcessor, general manager at Detroit’s WDET-FM, has resigned to take a position with Krista Tippett Public Productions.After teasing Carmen Sandiego fans, PBS says there are ‘no plans’ to bring show back
"There are no plans for Carmen Sandiego to return to PBS’s schedule," the network told Current, after teasing fans with a Tumblr ...Herbert Allison, ProPublica director, dies at 69
Herbert Allison, Jr., a financial executive who served on the Board of Directors of nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica, died July 14 at ...Lary Lewman, host and narrator at MPT, dies at 76
Lary Lewman, an actor and longtime narrator for Maryland Public Television, died July 11 in his Clarksville, Md., home from complications from ...Bill Thrash, veteran OETA manager and programmer, dies at 73
Bill Thrash, the longtime station manager and program director for Oklahoma’s statewide pubTV network OETA, died July 15 after a long battle ...Rejected by ITVS, Citizen Koch rakes in Kickstarter dough
Citizen Koch, a documentary about the growing influence of money in politics that lost a pot of planned public TV funding in ...Public media stations rethink and repurpose content for tablet users
As consumer use of tablet devices continues to rise, more public media stations are moving onto the platform with supplementary content and ...James Loper, KCET founder and president, dies at 81
James L. Loper, a founder of Los Angeles’s KCET and founding chairman of PBS, died in his home in Pasadena, Calif., July ...Ready to Compete Act introduced in House to reauthorize Ready to Learn
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., today introduced his Ready to Compete Act to the U.S. House of Representatives.NPR, APM join forces with mobile app Swell
NPR and American Public Media are partnering with a new mobile app that curates talk radio and podcasts according to listener taste. ...Sputnik Kilambi, Free Speech Radio News co-founder, dies at 55
Sputnik Kilambi, a veteran international radio reporter who helped co-found Free Speech Radio News, died July 7 in Paris after a battle ...PRX Remix app comes to mobile devices
Public Radio Exchange is porting its popular PRX Remix program stream to yet another platform as an app for iPhones and Android ...AFI Docs festival screens diverse pubTV films
Public TV was less visible at this year's American Film Institute documentary festival. Yet several of the 10 films that had received ...Online News Association moves into new NPR building
The Online News Association, a nonprofit resource and support group for digital journalists, moved its offices into NPR’s new Washington, D.C., headquarters ...
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