Author: Andrew Lapin
CPB gives emergency grants to WNYC and WNET in Sandy’s aftermath
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today it will immediately give $250,000 each to New York City's most prominent public media stations.NPR, SoCal Public Radio websites win multiple EPPY awards
In a further sign of public media’s embrace of the digital front, on Oct. 30 both NPR and Southern California Public Radio ...Frontline, Marketplace take on campaign financing with pre-election programming slate
Big Money 2012 is an ongoing cross-pollination between PBS's Frontline and American Public Media's Marketplace that works to incorporate traditional news documentaries with online ...Louisville Public Media receives matching grant to build investigative reporting center
The proposed Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting has a projected three-year budget of $1.5 million.Pubradio reporters debate ‘dissing of daily news’
Freelance radio and print journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte set off a lively exchange of the philosophical differences between radio producers who work under ...Radiolab producers release ‘yellow rain’ email
Producers of the program have made public the full list of questions they had originally emailed to their interview subject for the ...Search for ‘truth’ results in ‘Radiolab’ apology
An interview that went awry for Radiolab sparked an outcry from listeners and an unusual apology from a show unaccustomed to accusations of ...Kickstarter crowd backs Seabrook’s Decode DC
Former NPR correspondent Andrea Seabrook, who covered Congress until departing in July to launch an independent podcast called Decode DC, crossed the finish line ...Audio amateurs turn heads at ShortDocs competition
Luke Eldridge, a financial services worker from London, and John Musto, an electrician from Chicago, were two of the four ShortDocs winners ...News, game-ified and powered by the crowd
Documentary filmmakers, code developers and public media executives are creating more interactive takes on the news in order to draw audiences into ...Ken Burns, defending PBS in USA Today, pits Reagan’s words against Romney’s
PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose extensive credits include The Civil War, Baseball and the upcoming The Dust Bowl, authored an editorial in Tuesday’s USA Today in which he ...New class of MacArthur fellows includes two POV filmmakers
Two acclaimed filmmakers whose work has been featured on the documentary showcase POV on PBS were among the 2012 “Genius Grant” recipients, announced ...Radio Netherlands cancels The State We’re In
The State We’re In, an English-language public radio series produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide in partnership with WAMU in Washington, D.C., will shut down ...Outside consultant says WDET fundraising spots weren’t unethical
Pitch spots requesting donations for an audio preservation project at Detroit’s WDET did not violate fundraising ethics, according to an accredited fundraising ...Pubcaster, college, for-profit news all meld in Macon
A partnership between a public radio station, a private university and a for-profit newspaper is beefing up local news coverage in Georgia’s ...
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