Author: Dru Sefton
Agnew re-elected to head APTS Board, California station hires LAT veteran and other comings and ...
Also, Nonprofit Quarterly has hired former NPR producer Amy Costello and acquired her podcast, Tiny Spark.HBO agreement reverses financial losses at Sesame Workshop
The agreement “totally changed our economics,” said CEO Jeffrey Dunn.Public media again in bull’s-eye in president’s FY19 plans
CPB would get only $15.5 million next year and $15 million in 2020 to shut itself down.Covering the West from a museum ‘fishbowl’
Kamila Kudelska's job is part of a new journalism and production collaboration between the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and Wyoming ...Iowa broadcaster Don Forsling dies at 80; was on NPR Board in early years
“Radio listeners loved him for his wry sense of humor and deadpan delivery,” according to Iowa Public Radio.PBS programmer Hoppe leaving for executive position at ABC News
PBS President Paula Kerger credited Hoppe with helping PBS become the sixth–most-watched network.Public media projects pull in annual NEA grants
It’s the first of two major grant announcements from the federal program for fiscal year 2018.PBS pushes back on YouTube plans for ‘government funded’ label
“Labeling PBS a 'publicly funded broadcaster' is both vague and misleading,” PBS said in a statement.Mourners pay final tributes to Jacquie Jones, ‘warrior for justice’
"She wanted to be able to be Jacquie Jones, to the end," one speaker said. "And she was.”Shumaker leaves South Carolina station, Skoler resigns in Louisville and other comings and goings
Also, PBS39 in Bethlehem, Pa., has hired two new executives as part of a management restructure.Public media executives grapple with how to prevent harassment
A session at the NETA conference covered how system leaders are re-examining practices dealing with harassment complaints.CPB’s American Graduate backs job training projects at stations
The corporation announced the grants, which range from $170,000 to $200,000, at the annual meeting of the National Educational Telecommunications Association.CPB unveils $500,000 in education engagement grants at NETA meeting
Up to 50 stations can receive grants for educational engagement initiatives “beyond existing models such as camps and workshops,” CPB said in ...PBS show announcements at Press Tour include series on #MeToo movement
Each episode will focus on an aspect of sexual harassment with in-studio interviews and reporting from the field.Smith leaving NPR for WBEZ, Garfield treads the boards and other comings and goings
Israel Smith has been "tenacious, inventive and enterprising" during his five-year tenure, said NPR VP Anya Grundmann.
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