Author: Andrew Lapin
APTS recognizes Barbara Mikulksi and Greg Walden, gives innovation and advocacy awards
The Association of Public Television Stations handed out Champions of Public Broadcasting awards during its Public Media Summit in Washington, D.C., Feb ...PBS pushes message of digital innovation at SXSW
During a March 10 appearance at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, PBS President Paula Kerger talked the talk of digital innovation, ...Michele Norris shares details of her Race Card Project at SXSW
AUSTIN, Texas — Former All Things Considered co-host Michele Norris discussed details of her Race Card Project during a March 9 panel at the ...Pubmedia-funded start-up accelerator Matter announces inaugural class
The first start-up class of Matter, the media accelerator backed by Knight Foundation, KQED and the Public Radio Exchange, includes Localore partner ...More than airtime: Documentary producers search for new frontiers of engaging audiences
During a conference at the U.S. Institute of Peace Feb. 28, the makers of human rights documentaries discussed the techniques and challenges ...Wits to deliver 10 new episodes this season for nationwide carriage
The fourth season of the Minnesota Public Radio-produced St. Paul variety show Wits, which piloted as an MPR-only broadcast, will be the first ...Michael Toms, co-founder of New Dimensions
Michael Toms, the co-founder and co-host of the public radio program New Dimensions for four decades, died in his sleep Jan. 24 at the ...Company claiming patent infringement targets podcasters
Personal Audio says it has a patent covering the technology used in podcasting. A representative for the company said no public broadcasters ...APTS congressional champion delivers ‘tough love’ to pubTV leaders
A radio broadcaster-turned lawmaker who chairs a key House subcommittee with oversight of CPB delivered a pointed critique to public TV station ...Putting more public service into public media at 2013 APTS Summit
Representatives from four sectors of the public service community made a case for more partnerships with public television during the opening session ...Pubradio journalist wants western Colorado to ‘See Change’
For a Localore project hosted by KVNF in Paonia, Colo., Julia Kumari Drapkin set out to invert the traditional model of science ...Nielsen will expand its definition of TV ratings by start of fall 2013 season
The Nielsen Co., the stalwart television-ratings tracker, announced Feb. 20 that it plans to track viewing on additional devices beginning in September. ...Oscar-nominated POV filmmaker detained at airport
Palestinian documentary filmmaker Emad Burnat, whose Oscar-nominated film 5 Broken Cameras received funding from PBS’s POV, was detained Feb. 20 at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving in the ...Judge denies New York City’s request for outtakes from Ken Burns’s Central Park Five
More than five months after subpoenaing notes and outtakes from The Central Park Five, a crime documentary about the 1989 arrest and conviction of five ...Downton Abbey season finale nets 8.2 million viewers
The third-season finale of Downton Abbey drew 8.2 million viewers for its Feb. 17 PBS broadcast, the network and WGBH announced Feb. 19. The numbers come ...
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