Development
First Look Media and Democracy Fund to provide $12M for investigative journalism
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Grantees include the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Center for Public Integrity and ProPublica.
Programs/Content
Midwest nonprofit news outlet seeks to boost engagement-based journalism
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The engagement fellow will focus on diversifying MCIR’s audience by involving community members in the newsroom’s editorial process and fostering conversations about its coverage.
Development
What’s a major gift in public media? Depends on who you ask
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At most stations, individuals who contribute at least $1,000 cumulatively over a year are considered major donors. But outside of public media, major gifts involve much larger donations.
Featured in Category
Greater Public names Joyce MacDonald as CEO
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The announcement brings an end to a two-year search to replace longtime President Doug Eichten.
System/Policy
Fans of PBS Kids gather on Capitol Hill to voice support for federal funding
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Organizers delivered petitions to members of Congress, bearing 660,000 signatures gathered online to save CPB funding.
Development
Small, midsize stations make progress with major-donor fundraising
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Small and midsize stations must be especially creative in developing ways to engage and grow their pools of major donors.
Programs/Content
Localore report sees public media’s future in live events
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Among the report’s findings is that social platforms — such as church services, hot-dog wagons and food pantries — are as important as social media for the future of public media.
Quick Takes
Knight Prototype Fund to invest up to $1M in spreading facts
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Knight will devote the funding to early-stage projects aiming to combat misinformation.
Awards
APTS honors Sens. Blunt, Leahy as champions of public broadcasting
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APTS also recognized two executives working within public media.
Awards
APTS honors Diane Rehm, Public Broadcasting Act author at Public Media Summit
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And more awards in public media.
System/Policy
Licensee of California’s KVCR receives $157M in spectrum auction
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The San Bernardino Community College District announced Monday that the FCC accepted its bid to move to a VHF channel.
Programs/Content
Southwest border journalism hub receives $50K from Ford Foundation
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The grant will support reporting on inequality and marginalization along the U.S.–Mexico border.
System/Policy
Vermont PBS gains $56M from sale in spectrum auction
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The station plans to invest the proceeds in programming.
Development
Sesame Workshop named semifinalist in $100M MacArthur Foundation grant competition
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Its proposal, one of eight selected as semifinalists, targets children who face violence, limited access to education, loss of loved ones and other challenges.
Quick Takes
PBS-commissioned survey finds 73 percent of voters oppose eliminating federal funding for public TV
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Support for funding spanned all regions of the country, with most respondents citing public TV’s educational mission as its most important value.
Diversity
Who are the rising black talents in public media?
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We need your help to identify up-and-coming talents whose names we don’t know yet and should.
Awards
NPR’s Andrea de Leon to receive PRNDI’s Leo C. Lee Award, and other awards in public media
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Also, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb will receive a Writers Guild award for his contributions to a “Frontline” documentary.
People
Love trumps competition for married couple reporting for Fox News, NPR
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With Myre’s move to a new position at NPR, he and his wife Jennifer Griffin are again competing on a beat.
Programs/Content
Public media projects examine Trump’s first 100 days
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Public media journalists are casting a wide net for reactions to the election of Donald Trump.
Development
PBS will help stations convert social media followers to donors during March pledge
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Stations will work with Goodworld.me, a platform that streamlines the process of making donations via Facebook and Twitter.