Author: Andrew Lapin
WNYC, EarthFix lead pubmedia’s award winners at ONA 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — Public media continues to earn accolades for its online innovations, as multiple outlets racked up trophies at the Online News ...Pubcasting’s push into online news delivery has built-in limitations
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – At a forum of leading public media professionals, participants expressed mixed feelings about whether public media can, or ...WDET apologizes for fundraising spots simulating tape decay
Detroit’s WDET admitted in an August letter to donors that it used suspect advertising tactics in on-air fundraising spots promoting an ambitious ...Key GOP lawmaker to CPB: Pubcasting needs a new pitch on Capitol Hill
House Republican Don Young, the 39-year veteran representative from Alaska’s at-large district and a longtime backer of public broadcasting, told the Corporation ...CPB report to Capitol Hill countering “continued and pervasive” opposition to federal funding
CPB’s financial analysis on alternative funding sources for public broadcasting, prepared by consultants at Booz & Co. and delivered to Congress in ...New youth-flavored variety entries move genre out of its Prairie Home
Once thought to have been left for dead after the vaudeville era, variety shows have re-entered the public radio reinvention conversation — ...WNYC premiering podcast-originated ‘Gabfest Radio’ this weekend
WNYC in New York will launch Gabfest Radio, a one-hour program combining edited versions of two popular podcasts led by editors of online magazine Slate, with ...With new independent film, Ira Glass and TAL dream big
'Sleepwalk With Me,' is the program's latest (and biggest) attempt to break into the movie business.Podcast with limited radio airplay sets Kickstarter record
Roman Mars is a hard man to find on the radio. Only ten terrestrial stations regularly broadcast his Public Radio Exchange–distributed program 99% Invisible, ...If ratings don’t correlate to dollars at pledge time, what will?
PBS began mining national Nielsen data for pledge-drive audience insights in 2009, but it hasn't learned what to do about declining pledge ...WWNO, NPR plan expanded newsroom to serve New Orleans
A group of public radio partners is preparing to launch a new local journalism nonprofit that will employ upwards of 20 people ...Daisey, onstage and off air, revives his ‘Agony and Ecstasy’
“There is no objective, journalistic version of the show,” Daisey said. “I will be, always, making constant lies of omission by leaving ...Center for Investigative Reporting launches “I Files” YouTube channel
The Berkeley, Calif.-based Center for Investigative Reporting unveiled its new YouTube channel, The I Files, today. The channel, funded by the Knight Foundation, will ...ProPublica partners with The News Outlet to educate journalism students in northeast Ohio
Nonprofit investigative-journalism organization ProPublica announced Tuesday a new partnership with The News Outlet, an community-journalism nonprofit based in northeast Ohio. The initiative, ...New Orleans journalism venture won’t compete with T-P, Wilson says
The new nonprofit newsroom that NPR and WWNO announced today will not compete directly with the Times-Picayne, NPR’s Kinsey Wilson told Current in an ...
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