Author: Andrew Lapin
University of Washington files to transfer KEXP license to friends group
The move comes as KEXP conducts a $15 million capital campaign for a new headquarters.With ‘Smartbinge,’ WNYC aims to raise national profile for digital content
In an effort to position itself as a national brand in public radio, New York’s WNYC is launching an ad campaign likening ...TAL’s Alex Blumberg plans for-profit podcast network
Blumberg, e.p. of This American Life and co-host of Planet Money, envisions a sustainable future for narrative audio journalism.Sesame Street to add half-hour show for afternoons
PBS will also offer the half-hour show for mobile devices.Valerie Gunderson, WGBH budget director, dies at 59
Gunderson worked for WGBH for more than 25 years.Mike Foti, engineering exec at WGBH and OPB, dies at 63
Foti was WGBH's director of engineering for 14 years before joining OPB in 2013.Paula Sulinski, DPTV communications manager, dies at 59
Sulinski worked for the station's public-affairs division from 1976 to 1993.Alan Sack, pubTV direct-mail pioneer, dies at 87
Sack introduced direct-mail marketing to the pubTV system beginning with WGBH, and his methods are still used in the system.With TV Takeover, TPT hands over broadcast keys to local arts groups
To attract young viewers, Twin Cities Public Television is experimenting with a new kind of show: the “TV party.”Erbe fires back at SPLC, defends immigration coverage
The To the Contrary host wrote that the Southern Policy Law Center had published a "partisan distortion" of her views.Indie podcast network Mule Radio shuts its doors
Self-distributed public radio programs are among the podcasts finding new online homes after the network decided not to continue its business.Mississippi boosts state aid to pubcasting after half-decade of cuts
MPR credits successful legislative outreach and a state revenue increase for its nine-percent aid bump.WYPR staffers petition to join SAG-AFTRA union
Editorial staffers at Baltimore’s WYPR are petitioning management for union representation, according to a June 6 release from broadcast union SAG-AFTRA, which ...A year in, NPR’s Code Switch still figuring out commenting
In their efforts to foster a productive dialogue with readers, the race and culture blog's editors have turned their comments section into ...Chuck Haynie, longtime WTTW cameraman, dies at 62
Haynie shot for the politics beat of Chicago Tonight.
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