Author: Dru Sefton
Mellon Foundation provides $1 million to public broadcasting archive
The funding will back changes that include hiring a full-time engagement manager.Content exec returns in Chicago, WETA chooses ‘Check, Please!’ host, and other comings and goings
Steve Edwards previously spent 14 years at WBEZ.National Murrow Awards go to NPR, Texas Tribune, pubmedia stations
Texas Tribune claimed four honors, and NPR won three.Veterans’ programming and other assets kick off latest content-sharing platform
Wavelength, now in beta, will grow into a multiuse platform for a range of content topics.Rocky Mountain station can’t offer tax credits on $30M headquarters
The Denver station president called the decision "a significant disappointment."‘POV’ to air Bill Nye documentary after theatrical release from PBS
Filmmakers David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg said they “grew up as middle schoolers watching Bill Nye on PBS."NEA announces grants to public media projects including StoryCorps
Other recipients include the National Black Programming Consortium and KCRW.Another academic lashes out at ‘School Inc.’ documentary
Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education, calls the documentary “paid propaganda.”At CPB Board meeting, congressman calls for ‘civil and thoughtful’ advocacy for pubcasting funding
Rep. Earl Blumenauer also told the board that he had asked House Democrats to stop “using the assault on public broadcasting as ...CPB director’s second op-ed against federal funds draws public rebuke from board leaders
Howard Husock’s latest essay appeared Thursday in “The Hill.”WGBH’s Godley adds business services title, NETA announces top board posts and other comings and ...
Godley has been with the Boston station for nine years.CPB director Husock takes more specific swipe at pubcasting funding
“I’ve continued to think about what a post-subsidy system would be like, as a practical matter,” Howard Husock told Current.IG audits question Rogers Co. accounting on three PBS Kids shows
Each series is produced with Canadian partners to take advantage of funding incentives north of the border.Longtime UNC-TV engineer Campbell dies at 73
“Kip Campbell was the best television engineer that I have known in my entire career,” said Carl Davis, retired UNC-TV director of ...N.J. bill proposes using spectrum auction cash for news consortium
If passed, the law would funnel $100 million of the state's $332 million to a journalism partnership.
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