Author: Andrew Lapin
MPT collects Super Bowl wager winnings from KQED
Maryland Public Television can thank the Baltimore Ravens this week for helping the station win a supply of sourdough breads and chocolate. The ...KCRW and McSweeney’s partner up for The Organist
KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif., has struck the opening chords for The Organist, a monthly arts-and-culture podcast from McSweeney’s. The program is the latest ...A growing push for data-driven documentary filmmaking
Wendy Levy, the director of arts consultancy group New Arts AXIS, called for documentary filmmakers to embrace big data tools as a ...American Masters to shine light on reclusive author J.D. Salinger for 200th episode
The author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey died in January 2010 after living for more than 50 years as a recluse ...Latitude News meets Kickstarter goal to fund new weekly podcast
Latitude News, an online news outlet exploring world events and their reverberating effects in local U.S. communities and vice versa, surpassed the ...WBEZ turns to matchmaking in ads aimed at younger listeners
Dubbed the “2032 Membership Drive,” the station’s newest citywide marketing blitz encourages young “interesting people” to “make babies” who will grow up ...New Chicago pubTV program to include segment produced by Localore project
The project solicits questions from listeners about Chicago to investigate on-air.Thinking inside the bubble: KCRW’s Sonic Trace explores roots of L.A. Latinos
Sonic Trace seeks to record stories from southern California’s Latino immigrant communities, documenting the many and varied paths they take to get ...Ira Glass responds to charges that he’s trying to censor risqué podcast
As one of the most popular podcasts of all time, Public Radio International’s This American Life has had to deal with its fair share of ...Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me! beams into movie theaters May 2 for a live event
The latest public radio program to experiment with the big screen, NPR's fun-loving news quiz show Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! ...Jesse Thorn’s Bullseye moving to NPR
More than six weeks after first announcing his arts-and-culture radio program's exit from longtime distributor PRI, Jesse Thorn revealed the details of ...NPR’s Scott Simon to record pilot for mysterious new variety show
Scott Simon, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, is holding a free taping of a pilot episode for an experimental radio variety show, Scott Simon’s Wonderful Town. The ...Amazon will become exclusive paid streaming home for Downton Abbey
Amazon announced today it has struck a deal with PBS to make its online video streaming service, Prime Instant Video, the exclusive ...West Virginia pubcasters hope for turnaround under new chief
When Scott Finn begins his new job as executive director of West Virginia Public Broadcasting Feb. 1, he faces an uphill task ...Join the NEA webinar on Media Arts funding
The National Endowment for the Arts will be holding a webinar Jan. 29, 1-2 p.m. EST, to provide guidance for applying to ...
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