Author: Dru Sefton
Pubcasting programs spark anthology of ‘Poetic Responses’
While public broadcasting covers poets and their work, a new anthology may be the first book of poems inspired by public media ...Rooney drops WGBH host role, Castadio exits pubcasting, and other comings and goings in public ...
After hosting WGBH’s Greater Boston for 18 years, Emily Rooney is scaling back her role to focus on the weekly Beat the Press program.Friday roundup: Diplomatic showcase features PBS docs; WBUR gets $1M donation
Plus: Reading Rainbow hits its fundraising goal, and a call to boycott NPR.Downton Abbey creator calls PBS delay in season scheduling ‘madness’
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has weighed in on PBS’s decision to delay airing the Masterpiece megahit for months after each season premieres in Britain. And ...Friday roundup: Barzyk unveils pet project; Senate drops patent-reform bill
Plus: Sesame Street and the Great Society, and PRX looks at the technical side of distributing WFMT shows.Aviators distributor scrutinizing show after revelations of apparent product placement
The public TV program The Aviators has come under increased scrutiny from its distributor after Current revealed apparent product placement in the show’s on-air ...PIC names executive director, KCETLink reorganizes execs, and more comings and goings in public media
Pacific Islanders in Communications, part of the National Minority Consortia, has promoted Leanne Ferrer to executive director and announced two additional appointments. ...Tuesday roundup: TPR volunteer invents story to meet Greene; NPR compiles commencement speeches
Plus: The New York Times profiles Sandra Tsing Loh, and public media still matter to the director of the Peabody Awards.Masterpiece Trust secures $3 million gift from San Diego donor
SAN FRANCISCO – Amid previews of upcoming programming at the PBS Annual Meeting, including a groundbreaking 14-hour series on the Roosevelt family ...NewsHour sticks to founding mission: “Allow the audience to reach its own decisions”
In the first installment of our interview with Linda Winslow, outgoing e.p. of PBS NewsHour, she discussed her early start in broadcast journalism and working ...PBS’s Kerger urges Annual Meeting audience to be bold amid change
The event kicked off Tuesday with its largest crowd in at least a decade.Aviators grounds embedded marketing offer
Until recently, a page on the Aviators website promoting program sponsorships used slick marketing lingo to pitch product placements, also known as embedded ...Koch protester takes stage at PBS meeting, gets handcuffed and shown out
PBS staff asked Current to stop photographing as Brant Olson was put against a wall and handcuffed.Subject of ITVS’s Invisible War thanks pubTV programmers
Kori Cioca said the film's distributor gave her emotional support after she was raped while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard.With retirement ahead, EP of PBS NewsHour reflects on her start in broadcasting
Linda Winslow rose from covering a fireman's muster in small-town Massachusetts to leading a signature news program on public TV.
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