Author: Dru Sefton
‘Takeaway’ host Hockenberry to step down in August
Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich will host during the search for a successor.NPR staffer puts a fork in Alaska station’s flatware fiasco
The help from headquarters "was totally unexpected and very funny," an Alaska Public Media reporter said.Just how noncom are you?
We’re examining noncommercialism for our Currently Curious series.House committee backs funds for Ready To Learn, passes over interconnection
The committee recommends $25.7 million for the public TV early literacy project.Spectrum repack expenses top $1.75 billion fund
The $2.1 billion total includes $336.6 million requested by 148 public broadcasters.CPB director accuses public broadcasting of ‘identity politics’ in latest op-ed
Howard Husock continues his public criticism of CPB and federal funding for pubcasting.House Appropriations Committee recommends $445M for CPB in 2020
The bill does not include funding for public broadcasting’s interconnection project or public TV’s Ready To Learn.APM retools upper ranks, WGBY gets new GM and other comings and goings
New hires at American Public Media include an audience development SVP.Longtime D.C. pubcasting law firm dissolves, two attorneys move on
Schwartz, Woods & Miller helped many public broadcasters secure their first FCC licenses.Hosts reveal the unseen forces at work on ‘Invisibilia’
Each episode of the NPR podcast can take up to four months to complete.Pubcasting orgs in Alaska begin joint venture with shared leader
Alaska Public Broadcasting Inc. and CoastAlaska will work together as state funding declines.Pubcasters ask FCC to end station ID requirement
Other suggestions included revisiting “what constitutes actionable indecency.”WGBH show will aim to help kids think like computers
“Monkeying Around” is expected to be available to air in 2019.Philadelphia TV station will become grantmaker with spectrum auction winnings
The foundation formed from WYBE plans to share its proceeds with other Philadelphia-area nonprofits.T-Mobile will foot bill for repacking public TV translators
The agreement covers equipment, engineering, installation and legal fees.
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