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Far out: Public media celebrates NASA’s Pluto visit this week
Public media is sharing in the interplanetary excitement as NASA’s New Horizons spaceship reaches Pluto.Classical goes off the air in South Florida this week as APMG announces sale
American Public Media Group is selling Classical South Florida to Educational Media Foundation for $21.7 million.Ira Glass starts own company for ‘This American Life,’ ‘Serial’
This American Life host and creator Ira Glass has acquired full ownership of the show, breaking away from his longtime home at Chicago Public ...NPR expands co-hosting team for ‘All Things Considered’
NPR tapped longtime correspondents to expand ATC’s co-hosting team and appointed Michel Martin to host weekend editions of the newsmagazine.PBS asks a Martha’s Vineyard organization to drop ‘PBS’ from its name
Martha’s Vineyard Public Broadcasting Station — MVPBS — is also the subject of a local newspaper investigation.CPB to honor NPR journalists
David Gilkey and Ofeibea Quist-Arcton were part of the NPR team that covered the Ebola crisis earlier this year.Study points to lack of diversity on NPR and member station boards
A new study finds that boards of NPR and eight large-market public radio stations are made up mostly of men, white people ...Garrison Keillor reveals next host for ‘A Prairie Home Companion’
Keillor will co-host with his new host starting next season.All Things Considered’s Melissa Block moves from host chair to special correspondent role
Block has co-hosted the show for 12 years.On MSNBC, Ken Burns says Confederate flag is mired in racism, not heritage
Ken Burns, director of PBS's The Civil War documentary series, discussed the true roots of the controversial symbol.KUSP still considering options, but sale no longer among them
The station is likely to air more music, but additional details are yet to be decided.Pastor killed in South Carolina church shooting was featured in PBS documentary
Rev. Clementa Pinckney appeared in the 2013 PBS documentary 'The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'Guardian News & Media launching mobile innovation lab with $2.6M Knight grant
Results will be shared with the news industry as a whole.Hello neighbor, nice baseball jersey you have there
Baseball uniforms paying tribute to Mister Rogers’ famous red cardigan take to the field next month at a special minor-league game.Court denies NAB challenge to aspects of spectrum auction
FCC Chair Wheeler said the decision provides "the certainty necessary to proceed apace toward a successful auction in the first quarter of ...
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