Author: Andrew Lapin
Use of crowdfunding site flags under APM
Spot.us, the crowdfunding website allowing journalists to raise funds for their reporting projects, has been hit by a sharp decline in usage ...KTSU volunteer stole personal info from hundreds of donors, investigators say
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. A former volunteer at Houston’s jazz format NPR affiliate KTSU has been ...2013 Golden Globes: Maggie Smith wins PBS’s only statuette
PBS was nominated in four categories at the 70th Golden Globe Awards Jan. 13, but only Dame Maggie Smith of Downton Abbey earned a win ...Finn will replace Adkins as exec director of West Virginia pubcasting
The State Educational Broadcasting Authority of West Virginia voted Jan. 10 to hire Scott Finn as the new executive director of West ...Community-funded Homicide Watch partners with Sun-Times to launch Chicago website
Homicide Watch, a crowdfunded community reporting site that tracks city murder victims, will launch its third site in Chicago by the end ...WGBY interviews real-life Downton Abbey Countess
Three nights after 7.9 million people tuned into the third-season premiere of PBS’s Downton Abbey, WGBY in Springfield, Mass., will broadcast an interview tonight with Lady ...Huell Howser, longtime host of California’s Gold, dies at 67
One of pubTV's most beloved and good-natured personalities, Huell Howser, passed away Jan. 6 of natural causes.Kickstarter users have given more than $42M to documentaries
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter announced Thursday that independent film projects on its site had passed the $100 million mark in pledges since its ...Jesse Thorn: Bullseye will stay on public radio after leaving PRI
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn will continue to be heard over broadcast radio after the show has left distributor PRI in spring 2013, host and ...Jesse Thorn’s Bullseye is leaving PRI
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, the Los Angeles-based nationally distributed radio program and podcast, is leaving longtime distributor PRI, host and creator Jesse ...Joe Donnelly will head Knight-funded journalism nonprofit in Santa Barbara
Joe Donnelly, former senior editor at L.A. Weekly and co-founder of the quarterly reader Slake: Los Angeles, will become the executive editor ...Charlie Rose producers will pay up to $250K to settle intern lawsuit
Producers of the PBS program Charlie Rose have agreed to pay up to $250,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a ...Mikulski, friend of pubcasters, will chair Senate Appropriations Committee
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) is replacing the recently deceased Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, where she will ...PBS, WNET to offer specials focusing on Newtown tragedy
With short turnaround, PBS and New York's WNET will offer two programs in the next two days focusing on the aftermath of ...Hawaii pubcasters remember their ‘champion,’ Sen. Daniel Inouye
Representatives from Hawaii's public broadcasting networks, as well as the national public broadcasting community, recalled Inouye's years of commitment to the mission ...
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