Development
STING: The Right jabs pubradio with NPR fundraiser’s words
Neither Ron Schiller nor Betsy Liley had eaten before at Café Milano, the upscale see-and-be-seen restaurant in Georgetown, before Feb. 22, when ...House vote would axe CPB in 2013
Last time, in 2005, the emissary to Congress was Clifford the Big Red Dog. This time, it’s an aardvark named Arthur. Last ...Donation analysis project aims to fill public TV’s development void
Contributor Development Partnership launches as a data-driven effort to identify and share best practices in public media fundraising.Into the gig economy
The author is president of Western Reserve Public Media (WNEO/ WEAO), which serves Akron, Youngstown and Kent in northeast Ohio. Right after ...Newman’s own way: ‘speak up and do things’
In June 2007, when conservative publisher Rupert Murdoch purchased the venerable Wall Street Journal, actor and philanthropist Paul Newman was upset. Wary of Murdoch’s ...Consultants, groups aim to fill voids as PBS Development shifts focus
“We must work differently” in an era of flat membership dues and other funding constraints, said Joyce Herring, PBS’s senior v.p. of ...Buyer will take Nightly Business Report to ‘a new level’
WPBT sells to entrepreneur with history of legal disputes: Mykalai Kontilai, whose NBR Worldwide this month purchased Nightly Business Report, a staple ...Sustainers: more efficiency and stability, shorter pledge drives
After a decade, sustaining members have given four times as much, net Everywhere you look these days, there’s a different message on the ...Accounting problems cost WNET $1 for every $7 in federal grants
WNET’s accounting problems have cost it $1.96 million out of a series of production grants totaling $13 million, following a two-year federal ...Gov’t officials critical of nonprofit Friends units
Nonprofit fundraising arms of the state-owned network in West Virginia and the school-board-operated stations in Miami are under fire as public officials ...PBS entrusts key funding job to good friend of its president
Such hires push a hot-button issue: Public broadcasting’s commitment to diversify its largely white male corps of decision-makers.Mobile giving a ‘no-brainer’ for TAL postcast audience
It’s not the best way to collect big annual gifts from station members, pubcasting fundraisers agree. But This American Life’s producers confirmed that giving-by-texting ...Giving by texting: So far, you’d LOL at net proceeds
Americans’ response to the post-earthquake crisis in Haiti demonstrated the power of technology-enabled charity, but public broadcasters who ...Congress allots $25 million ‘stabilization’ aid to stations
The number was a compromise between the House’s $40 million figure and the Senate’s $10 million.To save journalism, click ’n’ donate?
Now a dot-com called Kachingle is starting to roll out an online service designed to make voluntary support easy for even the ...