Author: Dru Sefton
Brendsel, PBS product development v.p., following Seiken to Telegraph Media
PBS just lost another executive to Telegraph Media Group. Jon Brendsel, currently v.p. of product development, will join former PBS digital head Jason ...Localore “fires up local networks,” AIR’s Schardt says in CJR
The Columbia Journalism Review calls Localore “an innovative financing model may change the face of public radio” in an article out today. The project, ...Real Orange ends production next month at PBS SoCal
PBS SoCal is canceling its longtime magazine show, Real Orange, reports the Orange County Business Journal. The positions for hosts Ed Arnold and Ann Pulice will ...ITVS chooses eight documentaries for Diversity Development Fund grants
The Independent Television Service today announced grants to eight documentaries from its Diversity Development Fund. The annual call for submissions resulted in 114 ...Texas Public Radio selects NPR’s Slocum to lead station
Joyce Slocum, chief administrative officer at NPR, takes over as president and c.e.o. of Texas Public Radio Jan. 6, the San Antonio-based ...Localore project Black Gold Boom gets funding for 2014 documentary, transmedia work
The grant will fund a film focusing mainly on the oil boom's effects on Native tribes.St. Louis culinary magazine hits pubmedia airwaves on Feast TV
Nine Network in St. Louis is partnering with the local Feast Magazine on Feast TV, a unique culinary show. Filmed in Producer Catherine Neville’s home kitchen, ...Pittsburgh airport, subway travelers to hear local classical musicians via WQED
WQED and the Allegheny County Airport Authority today announced a partnership to re-launch classical music programming by local artists for the Pittsburgh ...PRX partners on launch of searchable-sound database Pop Up Archive
Pop Up Archive, an online sound library backed by a 2012 Knight News Challenge funding, launches this week. Co-founders Anne Wootton and Bailey ...CPB gives $1 million to build and expand emergency communication services
Five pubcasting stations are receiving a total of $1 million in grants from CPB to expand emergency alert and communications services. CPB announced ...Sesame Workshop to get $20 million for worldwide financial education from MetLife
MetLife Foundation has pledged $20 million over the next five years to Sesame Workshop, the two announced today, to create financial educational ...American Geophysical Union hires Rehm, Johnson to head Iowa Pubradio, Vermont creates digital news team ...
AGU is a nonprofit association representing more than 62,000 Earth and space scientists. In her new job, former NPR spokesperson Dana Davis ...Former NBR co-anchor Hudson lands new spot at Miami’s WLRN
Tom Hudson, former co-anchor for Nightly Business Report, is stepping into a new position of vice president of news at WLRN as part of ...Patent-trolling bill would assist targets of nuisance lawsuits
A bipartisan bill to fight so-called “patent trolls” was introduced on Capitol Hill Monday, reports Broadcasting & Cable. Patent trolling, as the practice is ...KPBS editorial employees approve representation by SAG-AFTRA
Staffers at dual licensee KPBS in San Diego voted Monday to join SAG-AFTRA, the union said in a statement. The new bargaining ...
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