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NEA slashes funds to WNET arts series, elevates digital media
The Arts on Radio and Television fund of the National Endowment for the Arts, a source of millions of programming dollars for ...Partner up, get local for best shot at funding, execs advise
Grantmakers at foundations increasingly look for public radio and television stations to move beyond traditional broadcasting and serve their communities in new ...Foundations favor grantees with digital, local news chops
By giving two seminal news-related grants last year, the Pittsburgh Foundation broke from what chief executive Grant Oliphant described as the foundation’s ...Did Kramer overreach in Oregon?
... Citing a conflict of interest between Kramer’s role as station chief and his oversight of the separate nonprofit Jefferson Public Radio ...March [2012] brings major gifts for two pubTV shows
Philanthropists in California and New York contributed separate gifts of $1 million to two public TV shows last month. With her six-figure ...With FCC’s eye on Daystar, WMFE-TV sale nixed
The FCC has delayed decisions on two transactions involving sales of public TV stations to Daystar Television Network to examine whether the ...Reporters go extra mile with funds from iCrowd
... There’s a lot of hype about crowdfunding — raising production money through a website. So far, the technique hasn’t been able ...Cohesion: It helps when collaborators want the same things
There’s a growing disparity between the haves and have-nots among public stations. Their abilities to expand services and revenues are diverging. And ...Obama would keep CPB at $445 mil, end aid to rural pubTV
President Barack Obama released his fiscal 2013 budget Feb. 13, which, as expected, contains $445 million in advance funding for CPB in ...Policy delay of nonprofit status spikes Chicago News Cooperative
Rumors started quickly, trying to explain why the Chicago News Cooperative was closing. The Internal Revenue Service had rejected the co-op’s application ...No-chat zone ’twixt funders and reporters?
Radio news veteran Jim Asendio resigned as news director of Washington’s WAMU-FM last week after an internal dispute over a private fundraising ...Local/national fundraising ‘rules of the road’ needed
While a local public broadcasting station traditionally romances big-donor prospects in its locality, it can occasionally find itself in a jealous spat ...Scale: Wisconsin net has economies of size and local bureaus, too
Nothing comes easily to public radio, not even a good idea. About 30 years ago, Wisconsin Public Radio veteran Jack Mitchell came ...Capital: With federal aid gone, tech fundraising starts from scratch
The evaporation of the Commerce Department’s Public Telecommunications Facilities Program and the dwindling of other funding sources have created a critical situation ...Current participates as information provider in a series of forums
With this package of articles, Current begins publishing a series of articles on Public Media Futures, appearing in conjunction with a two-year series of quarterly ...
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