Author: Dru Sefton
Public media women team up to tackle gender inequality in leadership
A group of female leaders has formed a committee to address issues of gender inequality in the executive ranks of public television ...FCC schedules initial workshops on spectrum auctions
The workshops will run nationwide between February and May.It’s WGBH lobstah vs. KCTS salmon in Super Bowl bet
A friendly Super Bowl wager between the top executives of public television stations in Boston and Seattle will yield one a booty ...Former Washington Post editor signs on as CPB ombudsman
Milton Coleman takes over Feb. 1 from Joel Kaplan, a Syracuse University communications professor whose term expires at the end of January.Programmers’ APT Marketplace choices include Aussie romantic drama and MST3K
Popular programs included A Place to Call Home, a 13-part series set in 1953 in rough and rural Australia — sort of an updated ...Peggy Charren, crusader for children’s television, dies at 86
Charren founded Action for Children’s Television (ACT) in 1968 to fight commercialism in children’s television programming.PBS joins BBC, BBC Worldwide in co-production deal
PBS President Paula Kerger announced the deal Monday at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif.History Detectives can’t solve its own mysterious lack of underwriters, ends production
The program, produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting with partner Lion TV, had dwindled from 11 episodes per summer run to just four ...PBS taps Ford Foundation executive as next chief operating officer
Barzilay replaces Michael Jones, c.o.o. since 2009, who stepped aside into an executive advisory role in September 2014.Paul Steen, leader of KPBS in San Diego for 26 years, dies at 82
Steen is credited with the decision in 1990 to add news to KPBS-FM’s format.PBS Hawaii takes over commercial newscast ad breaks for ‘out of the box’ promos
The two-minute spots on the joint newscast on Honolulu’s KHNL and KGMB are valued at a total of $30,000.NPR selects media journalist Elizabeth Jensen as next ombudsman
During the three-year appointment, Jensen will serve as NPR's public representative and write about journalism and journalistic ethics.Gharib heads to ‘Fortune,’ O’Connor bound for WFAE, and other comings and goings in public ...
Susie Gharib joined NBR in 1998, when the weeknightly business show was produced by WPBT in Miami.PBS, WNET reopen talks with indies over scheduling of doc showcases
The goal of the four-month listening tour is to develop a national strategy to raise the profile of independent films on public ...CPB’s $7.5M in pubmedia news grants honors slain Charlie Hebdo journalists
CPB reacted Jan. 8 to the attack on journalists at the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo by announcing grants totaling $7.5 million to four ...
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