Author: Andrew Lapin
DEI group unites public media’s young professionals
A group of young public media professionals who began meeting informally last year to network and share ideas has moved to step ...Futures Forum explores pubmedia’s leadership transition
Upcoming leadership changes in public media will be the focus of Friday’s Public Media Futures Forum in Washington, D.C., the latest in ...Robert West, specialist in community engagement around documentaries, dies at 60
Robert West, a former community engagement strategist for Independent Television Services who left to form his own outreach organization for independent filmmakers, ...Nonprofit newsrooms struggle with long-term funding, Pew study finds
Finding long-term, sustainable funding remains a top concern of the country’s nonprofit news outlets, according to the results of a new study ...Wisconsin lawmakers seek to hobble nonprofit investigative journalism center
Republicans in Wisconsin’s state legislature are looking to bar the state’s public broadcasters and biggest university from contributing to an investigative-journalism center ...Ibrahim Gonzalez, WBAI personality and producer, dies at 57
Ibrahim Gonzalez, a longtime producer and on-air personality at the Pacifica network’s WBAI-FM in New York, died in his sleep June 3. ...Podcast lawsuits provoke pubmedia attention, presidential action
A brewing legal fight initiated by Personal Audio, a Texas-based company that claims to have invented podcasting technology, has entered a new ...CPB expands Ready to Learn with additional $110K to four projects
CPB announced today it will grant a total of $110,000 to four licensees for them to expand local outreach related to pubTV's ...Ron Weaver, part of original Children’s Television Workshop production team, dies at 75
Ron Weaver, a former operations director and producer for Children’s Television Workshop who played an instrumental role in creating some of the ...Haynes Johnson, original Washington Week panel member, dies at 81
Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was an original panel member on pubTV’s Washington Week in Review, died May 24 in ...White House honors Decode DC‘s Andrea Seabrook as a “Champion of Change”
Andrea Seabrook, former Congressional correspondent for NPR, will be honored by the White House today as a "Crowdfunding Champion of Change."OK Go’s Tiny Desk concert makes for an epic NPR move
In a single video, for the song “All Is Not Lost,” rock band OK Go performed both the last-ever Tiny Desk concert ...Frank Lautenberg, pubcasting champion in the Senate, dies at 89
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), the last World War II veteran to serve in the Senate and a longtime supporter of public broadcasting, ...On hunt for more midday carriage, APM and BBC alter Newshour clock
Beginning July 1, the BBC’s Newshour will alter its show clock, ceding 4.5 additional minutes from its newscast for local cutaways. The ...Alaska Public Media’s new web-first series is part of its ‘video renaissance’
Alaska Public Media has introduced a new weekly web-first series in what promises to be its “larger video renaissance.” Indie Alaska, a weekly YouTube ...
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