Author: Dru Sefton
Panelists testify to inspiring global power of documentary films
This article has been updated and reposted with additional information. Women and Girls Lead Global, a public media–based international outreach program, is ...Wednesday roundup: Pubradio at SXSW Music, Frontline Vatican doc goes international
• The South By Southwest Music festival is underway in Austin, Texas, and public radio is providing an Internet gateway to the show. Beginning ...PBS mulls strategy to boost kids’ ratings
With many local pubcasters reporting sharp declines in daytime viewership, PBS programmers are reevaluating scheduling strategies for children’s programs, trying to get ...APMG hires CFO, Klose exits radio post, and more comings and goings in pubmedia
Morris Goodwin, a longtime member and former trustee of Minnesota Public Radio, is the new senior vice president and chief financial officer ...Monday roundup: WNYC gets $10 million, POV pairs with NYT, PRPD elects directors
• WNYC/New York Public Radio is receiving the largest grant ever given to a public radio station, it announced today. The pubcaster ...Thursday roundup: CPB presents education grants, CPI wins Goldsmith, Schiller talks Twitter news
• CPB has awarded multimedia journalism grants totaling more than $1.18 million to nine public media stations for education coverage aligning with ...Kasell retiring from ‘Wait Wait’ but not from answering-machine duties
Former NPR newscaster Carl Kasell, whose “voice on your home answering machine” has been the ultimate prize on Wait Wait . . . ...PBS selects tech exec Rubenstein to head digital efforts
Ira Rubenstein, a digital media executive with experience at Marvel and 20th Century Fox, is the new general manager of PBS Digital. He ...Vermont PTV Board approves tighter open-meeting rules
The Vermont Public Television Board adopted new open-meeting requirements Wednesday following two investigations into allegations of more than 20 improperly closed meetings. The ...Tomczyk to retire, Harris leads APTS board, and more comings and goings in pubmedia
Chet Tomczyk has worked in pubcasting for nearly 50 years, beginning in 1965 as associate producer of The Week in Michigan, a weekly travel ...Tuesday roundup: Dingell to retire, PBS vs. NPR in March Madness, #SheDocs returns
• U.S. Rep. John Dingell, who helped sign the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act into law and remained a staunch supporter of pubcasting, ...Monday roundup: WTTW names center for trustee, 2-Toy rolls on, Matter sets Demo Day
• WTTW announced a major gift Monday from the family of Renée Crown, board vice chair of licensee Window to the World ...Thursday roundup: WQED cuts back, Dunlop leads KCTS
More threats to classical radio.Monday roundup: Polk goes to Frontline, CPB ombud calls for transparency in grant dustup
• Frontline today won a George Polk Award for “League of Denial,” its investigation of the NFL’s efforts to downplay evidence linking head injuries of ...Afternoon roundup: Ombud complaints down, filmmaker knocks WETA
• In his annual review of objectivity and balance in CPB-funded programming, CPB Ombudsman Joel Kaplan noted “far fewer complaints directed at public ...
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