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Underwriting drop leaves NPR with $2.6M shortfall
Facing an operating deficit of $2.6 million this fiscal year due to a shortfall in corporate sponsorship income, NPR is stepping up ...Ford backs for-profit newsroom
A recent Ford Foundation grant to the Los Angeles Times highlights the heightened competition pubcasters face for philanthropic dollars in a fast-changing media world. ...Delays by IRS put chills on news startups
Nonprofit news outfits that have sprung up across the country to fill gaps left by commercial media have hit an unexpected barrier ...Questions to ask before you collaborate
For two decades, Dick McPherson has managed the McPherson Associates’ Public Media Co-op, through which 30-plus stations with more than 25 percent ...Q&A: ‘Building on strengths’ key to PBS strategy
After stints in the cable world as producers and programmers, PBS execs Beth Hoppe and Donald Thoms returned to PBS last August ...Maine legislators reject proposal to zero out pubcasting aid
A committee of Maine’s legislature unanimously voted April 5 to reject Gov. Paul LePage’s bid to eliminate funding for the state’s public ...Court would let public stations sell candidate and issues ads
No, there won’t be any windfall of Obama and Romney Super PAC gazillions for public stations this year. By a 2–1 vote, ...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 ...
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