Author: Dru Sefton
Friday roundup: WSJ profiles dapper Nippers; PBS unveils fall schedule
Plus: A PBS Kids app helps parents track screen time, and a KUOW story keeps it clean when discussing cow parts.Vermont PTV should be sanctioned for closed meetings, CPB IG finds
CPB’s Inspector General has recommended that the corporation sanction Vermont Public Television in response to 22 open-meeting violations by VPT’s board dating ...PBS plans digital video service as premium for station members
Public television stations are hoping that special access to a rich library of PBS programs will convince viewers to become members and ...CPB, PBS, local stations launch multiyear national veterans project
PBS will carry content under the banner Stories of Service, and CPB will fund a related community engagement campaign, Veterans Coming Home.Monday roundup: PBS releases Peg + Cat album, AFI Docs to honor Gibney
Plus: A libertarian op-ed calls on pubradio listeners to open their wallets, and Pacifica faces yet another lawsuit.Jones steps down from helm of National Black Programming Consortium
Jacquie Jones, executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) since 2005, has resigned, effective immediately, but will continue to produce ...Center for Public Integrity and Investigative News Network each grow by two, and other comings ...
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative newsroom, has hired William Gray and Eleanor Bell. Television producer Gray joins as media relations ...PBS proposes video-on-demand service in FY15 budget
PBS’s fiscal year 2015 draft budget includes the launch of a Membership Video on Demand service that will generate revenue by drawing ...Tuesday roundup: Nycklemoe out at KPLU; Cohen retiring from PRPD presidency
Plus: A columnist sounds off on Slate's pubmedia-esque membership program, and NPR unearths its Internet beginnings.CPB urges FCC to preserve public TV coverage in spectrum auction
WASHINGTON, D.C. — CPB’s Board of Directors unanimously approved a resolution Thursday urging the FCC to avoid allowing “white areas” that would lack ...Monday roundup: NYC mayor taps POV‘s Lopez, controversial Rogers out at GPB
• Cynthia Lopez, who has helped shape POV for the past 14 years as its executive vice president and co-executive producer, is the ...Bell exits NewsHour, Newman departs NPR, and more comings and goings in pubmedia
Bell will manage public relations for US Pharmacopeia (USP) in Rockville, Md., a nonprofit that works with the Food and Drug Administration ...Stirring musical piece blooms from Sendak’s words on Fresh Air
Author Maurice Sendak may be gone, but his final interview on public radio’s Fresh Air will live on through a unique choral composition.Friday roundup: Race Card Project teams up with ProPublica; LA mag covers NPR West
Plus: Pubmedia's Society of Professional Journalists award winners.Thursday roundup: Alleged plagiarism at KUNM; a spat over Pulitzers
Plus: Tilda Swinton spins tunes at KCRW, and a StoryCorps too hot for NPR.
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