Author: Dru Sefton
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“Outreach is about changing somebody else. Engagement is when you have been changed,” says Mikel Ellcessor, g.m. of WDET in Detroit. “And ...PBS dropping 21 staff positions, including veteran screeners
Thirteen current staff positions and eight vacant positions are being eliminated at PBS headquarters in Arlington, Va., and six “new or restructured” ...Financial outlook dims for indies in public media
Independent journalists in public media are having an increasingly tough time earning a living as producers for public TV and radio, according ...As clock ticks, Native groups ask FCC for more time
Native Public Media and the National Congress of American Indians are warning the FCC that many tribal licensees may be unable to ...Republican lawmakers preserve most funding for SCETV
South Carolina ETV avoided steep funding cuts last month as the state’s Republican-controlled legislature thwarted Gov. Nikki Haley’s attempt to eliminate two-thirds ...Arts try out for PBS slot on Fridays
With a nod to mission — and a bid for more major donors — PBS is spotlighting the arts for nine weeks ...Photographer turns lens on himself for survival story
John Kaplan was scared. He’d been diagnosed with not one but two types of lymphoma, and chemotherapy had begun to ravage his ...Dutch cutbacks likely to spare The State We’re In, Earth Beat
A Dutch government proposal to scale back activities of its overseas broadcaster, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, is unlikely to affect its most widely ...Radio indie’s project lands Knight News Challenge grant
The Knight Foundation awarded $420,000 last week to support the development of Zeega, an open-source HTML5 platform co-created by independent public radio ...State legislators taking last-minute votes on NJN deal
New Jersey’s lower legislative house last week voted down the plan by Gov. Chris Christie (R) to turn over the channels and ...Fed role: help ‘nonprofit news operations … gain traction”
The new report to the FCC about the state of the media and the future of American journalism estimates that filling gaps ...Bob Paquette of WFCR-FM; senior producer, morning host, 55
Bob Paquette, senior news producer and local host of Morning Edition at WFCR-FM in Amherst, Mass., died unexpectedly May 28 of an apparent heart ...Chris Ulanowski, former WRVO news director, 51
Chris Ulanowski, a former news director at WRVO in Oswego, N.Y., died May 30. He was 51. Ulanowski spent 27 years at the ...Jim Sweenie, WQED host, ‘bon vivant, raconteur and wit,’ 76
Jim Sweenie, a four-decade staffer at Pittsburgh’s WQED-FM and host of its Saturday Night Requests, died June 4 after complications from surgery the previous ...‘Restricted unrestricted’: a productive new flavor of grants at KPBS
“Blessed Be the Ties that Bind” may be music to churchgoers, but many station leaders find it discordant. No matter how much ...
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