Author: Dru Sefton
Dru Sefton covers public television and CPB for Current. She has more than 30 years of experience working at daily newspapers including USA Today as well as Newhouse News Service, a Washington, D.C.–based wire service. When she’s not breaking pubmedia news, Dru enjoys being Current’s official staff baker.
New training will help digital staffers polish their skills
The Digital Immersion Project will provide training, workshops and mentorships.By Dru SeftonJanuary 23, 2017‘Hill’ report says Trump team adopting proposal to cut federal funds for CPB, NEA and ...
The incoming president’s team is using the conservative Heritage Foundation’s budget blueprint as a template for spending cuts.By Dru SeftonJanuary 19, 2017Peoria station marks debut of PBS Kids channel with party
Local childhood education experts, elected officials and even a skunk joined children at a special event recorded for later broadcast.By Dru SeftonJanuary 18, 2017Turner leads development at NHPR, KQED promotes several staffers and other comings and goings
Deborah Turner helped oversee CPB’s major giving initiative from 2004–07.By Dru SeftonJanuary 17, 2017Launch of PBS Kids streaming channel reshapes multicast lineups
Stations must make room by dropping an existing subchannel, adjusting bandwidth or acquiring encoders to add an entirely new channel.By Dru SeftonJanuary 15, 2017Just two more seasons for public TV hit ‘Doc Martin’
The final season will be shot and broadcast in Britain in 2019 and will available here in 2020.By Dru SeftonJanuary 13, 2017Hosts familiar to public media filling ‘PBS NewsHour’ co-anchor slots
NPR's Steve Inskeep joins Judy Woodruff on tonight's broadcast.By Dru SeftonJanuary 12, 2017South Dakota station takes ‘next step’ in state reporting with portal and app
Viewers and listeners can access live webcasts, news, meeting minutes and agendas for more than 100 boards and commissions.By Dru SeftonJanuary 10, 2017Maine tower engineer leads rescue for hopelessly tangled moose
Jeffrey Mahaney knew what he had to do. He drove two hours to the far-flung site and snowshoed off-road to the tower.By Dru SeftonJanuary 6, 2017Grants support 10 Latino projects headed for public media distribution
Projects range from a web series of three-minute videos to several 90-minute documentary films.By Dru SeftonJanuary 5, 2017Charney takes lead at NPR One, McNamara leaves PBS and other comings and goings
Tamar Charney joined NPR early last year to focus on the mobile app’s use of station content.By Dru SeftonJanuary 4, 2017Siefken takes lead at Rogers Co., ‘1A’ forms crew, and other comings and goings
Siefken is VP of broadcast and digital media at The Fred Rogers Co.By Dru SeftonDecember 19, 2016WNET will end production of ‘Religion & Ethics’
The show premiered in September 1997.By Dru SeftonDecember 15, 2016Spanish-language multicaster Vme will soon drop public TV service
The channel is transitioning to commercial cable.By Dru SeftonDecember 14, 2016Enthusiastic Torah broadcaster interferes with New York Public Radio signal in Brooklyn
NYPR has filed three complaints with the FCC.By Dru SeftonDecember 13, 2016