Author: Andrew Lapin
Obama nominates former PBS board member Tom Wheeler to head FCC
President Obama has nominated cable and wireless lobbyist Tom Wheeler, a former member of the PBS Board, to chair the Federal Communications ...Planet Money launches Kickstarter campaign for T-shirt reporting project
NPR launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign backing a special investigative project by Planet Money, its reporting unit that produces multi-platform economics coverage.Nine GOP House members express support for federal aid to CPB, PTFP
In the past week, members of Congress have sent two bipartisan letters in support of public broadcasting initiatives to subcommittee chairs in ...Tippett to take On Being into independent production
On Being, a weekly pubradio program about religion and faith, is creating a production house for the show that will exist offsite ...Mhari Saito, award-winning reporter for Cleveland’s ideastream, dies at 41
Mhari Saito, a reporter for Cleveland’s ideastream, died April 15 from a long battle with gastric cancer. She was 41. Saito began her ...PRI launches crowdfunding campaign to fund global stories, entice new donors
A crowdfunding campaign launched April 15 by Public Radio International seeks $25,000 for a “Global Stories Fund” that will support 11 international ...Columbia Journalism Review profiles Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune, the nonprofit public policy journalism website that recently received a $1.5 million Knight Foundation grant, is the subject of ...Ready to Learn builds on digital-learning push with new station grants
The Ready to Learn program backing educational media and outreach for children ages 2 to 8 is making digital learning through community ...NPR website, Twitter accounts hacked by Syrian counter-revolutionary group
Late at night on April 15, NPR.org and several NPR-affiliated Twitter feeds were hacked into by an online Syrian counter-revolutionary movement, which ...Jane Henson, puppeteer and philanthropist
Jane Nebel Henson, a puppeteer and philanthropist who was the widow of Jim Henson and founder of The Jim Henson Legacy, died ...Nonprofit environmental journalism site InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer
InsideClimate News, the Brooklyn-based nonprofit environmental journalism outlet, won a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. The award was announced by the ...Kathleen Megargee, pubTV journalist
Kathleen Megargee, a freelance television journalist who hosted programs on Pittsburgh’s WQED and the former New Jersey Network, died March 23 from ...Knight Foundation announces $1.5 million grant to news nonprofit Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune, an online news nonprofit that produces in-depth stories about Texas government and policy, received $1.5 million from the John ...Rick Roberts, former manager of KTSU
Rick Roberts, general manager of Houston’s KTSU until his retirement in 1995, died March 21 from complications from a stroke after he ...Obama would maintain CPB funding, eliminate rural digital grants in 2014 budget proposal
President Obama released his fiscal 2014 federal budget proposal April 10, and recommended $445 million in two-year advance funding for CPB. This ...
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