Author: Dru Sefton
Second American Graduate Day to raise dropout awareness nationwide
The second American Graduate Day, a live multiplatform “call to action” event focusing attention on high-school graduation rates, hits public TV airwaves ...Technical hurdles, unknown costs loom in spectrum repacking
As the FCC prepares to reshuffle the layout of the nation’s television spectrum for the repacking process, public broadcasters are girding for ...KOPB-FM’s website tops nation in market penetration, study shows
The Media Audit reports that the website for pubradio KOPB-FM in Portland, Ore., has the nation’s highest reach into its metro area, ...New Sesame Street online hub to focus on math and science skills
Sesame Workshop will launch a new Sesame Street online hub focusing on science and math on Sept. 24, the New York Times reports. “Little Discoverers: Big ...New twist on the news cycle: chasing stories on two wheels
Several public broadcasting journalists now count a bike helmet among their essential reporting equipment as they pedal to cover news events and ...KCTS President Moss Bresnahan resigns, citing family issues
Moss Bresnahan, president of KCTS Television in Seattle, resigned Thursday. “My reasons for making this very difficult decision are deeply personal — to ...Co-founder Shapiro announces departure from Third Coast
Julie Shapiro, artistic director and co-founder of the Chicago-based Third Coast International Audio Festival, will leave the multiplatform curator of audio storytelling in November. “I ...Upcoming season brings more Downton Abbey merchandise
The fourth season of Downton Abbey, launching in January on Masterpiece, will bring an influx of related merchandise. Soon fans will be able to create ...Tardif of WGCU to chair Radio Television Digital News Association
Amy Tardif, news director of dual licensee WGCU in Fort Myers, Fla., is the first woman in pubradio to chair the Radio ...NFL concussion documentary to air in one two-hour presentation
PBS is shifting the scheduling of Frontline‘s upcoming League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis to a one-evening presentation. The documentary, which has been in ...Nine international broadcasters pick up Cold Case JFK doc from Nova
Cold Case JFK, a Nova forensic investigation documentary on President Kennedy’s assassination, has been purchased by nine broadcasters worldwide, reports C21 Media, a London-based global ...Syracuse’s WCNY welcomes two new execs, Echeverría and Santos host Vocalo en Español, and more ...
Jesús Echeverría and Rocío Santos are the new hosts for Chicago Public Media’s expanded Spanish-language music and talk blocks on Vocalo en ...ESPN backs away from NFL reporting project with Frontline
Cable network ESPN on Aug. 22 withdrew from its reporting collaboration with Frontline on an investigative documentary project examining the NFL’s allegedly lax ...Frontline reporting partner ESPN pulls out of NFL brain-injury investigation
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. ESPN on Thursday unexpectedly withdrew from a reporting collaboration with Frontline investigating brain ...Pacifica Radio Archives gets $128,000 grant to preserve voices of American feminists
Pacifica Radio will dedicate Tuesday’s broadcasting day to raising funds for its “American Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982” preservation and access ...
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