Author: Andrew Lapin
Student-designed Android app gathers donations for public radio’s producers
My2Cents Radio took top prize in an app-development competition co-sponsored by the Public Media Platform.Wednesday roundup: PBS Digital won’t pursue product placement; KUNM revisits plagiarism charge
Plus: Pubmedia's James Beard Award winners, and a "national conversation" about the future of the CBC.Tuesday roundup: PBS Digital Studios to launch scripted show; Innovation Hub goes national
Plus: An Atlanta-based fake news site really dislikes pledge drives.An option for This American Life, self-distribution dwindles among public radio producers
After This American Life parts with longtime distributor Public Radio International July 1, it could become public radio’s most widely carried show without a ...Thursday roundup: Sweaters for public media, This American Life in the U.K.
Plus: NPR explains its analytics dashboard, and the Knight Foundation's interest in digital storytelling.Afternoon roundup: SoCal Connected returns; Johnson to lead Colorado pubTV
Plus: Kansas threatens to eliminate state pubcasting funding, more on Chip Rogers' exit from GPB, and pubmedia's 2015 Nieman Fellows.PBS, PRX pick up Webby awards
Idea Channel, PRX Remix and Religion & Ethics Newsweekly are among the winners.Friday roundup: Ombud questions Code Switch policies; appeals court affirms dismissal of Clash lawsuits
Plus: Another online TV service advertises access to PBS.CPB ombud criticizes KUNM’s handling of plagiarism charges
The handling of plagiarism charges at New Mexico’s KUNM-FM drew criticism from CPB Ombudsman Joel Kaplan, who weighed in on the issue ...Public Radio Capital rebrands, launches new projects
Pubmedia consulting company Public Radio Capital has rebranded as Public Media Company and announced a pair of upcoming projects that reflect its ...Thursday roundup: Utah station threatened by CPB grant rules; Public Radio Capital rebrands
Plus: PBS virtually recreates D-Day, and the latest on the fight over podcasting patents.MinnPost, Voice of San Diego set high membership goals with support from Knight
The two nonprofit newsrooms will split a $1.2 million grant from the foundation over two years.Online companion to PBS series shines spotlight on civic innovation
How We Got to Now, a fall PBS series charting the history of innovation, will accompany a stand-alone news and commentary website funded by ...Robert Knight, WBAI investigative journalist, dies at 64
Knight was a Polk Award-winning investigative reporter for New York's Pacifica affiliate.Patrick Baroch, ITVS community engagement producer, dies at 45
Baroch joined the organization in 2005 and was part of the engagement crew that launched the Community Cinema program.
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