Author: Dru Sefton
Output: PBS’s first-ever Online Film Festival screens 20 short films, gilded applause for The Moth, public ...
Partners in the project are the pubmedia minority consortia — the Center for Asian American Media, Latino Public Broadcasting, Native American Public ...Mike deGruy, 60, shooter for Nature docs, dies in crash
Mike deGruy, an acclaimed cinematographer with a love of the sea who created several Nature documentaries on PBS, was killed Feb. 4 in ...Unusual rights delay: hint of budget strife?
PBS’s ongoing negotiations to curb per-hour costs of producing programs and to assert more control over content are increasing friction with its ...Next, PBS Tuesday schedule goes for the flow
If this is Tuesday, it must be history. At least, that’s what PBS hopes viewers think as the service moves forward with ...Oregonians introduce Occupy populists to the Tea Party kind
A unique local-national hybrid talk show on Southern Oregon Public TV proves that a passion for bridging philosophical divides and a (sometimes ...NewsHour picks up Bellantoni, WBEZ personnel changes, and more…
Bellantoni to oversee all <em>NewsHour</em> political coverage PBS NewsHour has a new political editor as of Jan. 2. Christina Bellantoni of CQ Roll Call oversees the ...Bob O’Rourke, 72, developed pubcasting science shows
Bob O’Rourke, a former v.p. for public relations at the California Institute of Technology who helped develop several pubcasting science features, died ...Dave Creagh, 60, producer and station exec ‘in vanguard of public radio pioneers’
Dave Creagh, an early All Things Considered executive producer who went on to lead other programs and major-market stations throughout his influential 22-year pubradio ...Downton returns, doubling average PBS evening rating
The return of Downton Abbey proved to be a ratings blockbuster for PBS, while critics mostly heaped praise on the Emmy-winning drama’s second season. Downton’s ...Minutes on Roadshow are pay enough for some
An 11-page diatribe from a former Antiques Roadshow appraiser to producing station WGBH provides a look deep inside public television’s most popular national show ...PubTV in L.A. not yet a case of win-win-win-win
When KCET announced in October 2010 that it would quit PBS after four decades as its primary Los Angeles affiliate, the task ...Ed Burrows, active in movement to win federal aid for public radio, dies at 94
Edwin G. Burrows, a public radio pioneer who was instrumental in getting federal aid to public radio — when CPB’s founding legislation ...Fair use: What public media makers are doing right and how they can do even better
Fair use, the right to employ copyrighted material in certain situations without licensing it, is in resurgence after two dismal decades of ...Vogelzang to lead Maine Public Broadcasting
Veteran pubcasting exec Mark Vogelzang has been appointed president and c.e.o. of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, operator of statewide public television ...After a hard year, NBR investor brings in new management
Rick Ray considered purchasing public TV’s Nightly Business Report earlier this year but last week ended up as its new c.e.o. instead. Atalaya Capital ...
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