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Iowa Public Radio names new executive director
Myrna Johnson, a former government relations associate for NPR who now directs a Boston nonprofit, has been named the next executive director ...Lab report finds some VPR Artists Series pledge mugs contain lead
Vermont Public Radio said Monday that test results show that 11 of the 34 mugs in its Artist Mug Series, which the ...KACV-TV rebrands as Panhandle PBS to honor anniversary
KACV in Amarillo, Texas, is marking 25th anniversary by changing its name to Panhandle PBS, the station announced Sunday, to reflect its ...Marcotte calls for “concerted look” at pubmedia’s long-range plans for news
Longtime pubcasting consultant Michael Marcotte is weighing in on the new Knight Foundation report on nonprofit journalism sustainability, which examines 18 news ...Cult hit The Best Show on WFMU to end in December after 13 years
Tom Scharpling is ending his The Best Show on WFMU on Dec. 17, according to Radio Survivor. Scharpling, who has been hosting the quirky ...PBS to host first international broadcasting conference since 1997
Next week PBS will host the annual conference for Public Broadcasters International (PBI), expected to draw hundreds of broadcasters from around the ...Upcoming Maryland PTV kids’ series gets help from NASA
Space agency NASA helped develop segments for a children’s show heading to public TV in spring 2014 from presenting station Maryland Public ...PBS scores with Democrats in latest “brand health” ranking
PBS ranks No. 7 of 10 popular brands among Democrats in this year’s “Red, Blue and Independent Rankings,” the annual aggregate indicator ...Muppets help First Lady announce Sesame Street healthy-food partnership
“Elmo Compliments First Lady’s Arms, Tells Her Pizza Isn’t Healthy.” There’s a headline you don’t see every day. The Sesame Street Muppet donned a ...WCNY’s new $20 million headquarters “spectacular,” PBS’s Kerger says
At the grand opening Wednesday of WCNY’s new $20 million Broadcast and Education Center in Syracuse, N.Y., PBS President Paula Kerger declared ...Senate confirms former PBS Board member Wheeler as FCC chair
The Senate confirmed former PBS Board member Tom Wheeler Tuesday night to head the FCC, reports The Hill. “Tom Wheeler will be a strong ...Suarez says he left NewsHour due to his diminished role
Newsman Ray Suarez, who exited PBS NewsHour after 14 years last week, tells Fox News Latino that he resigned because his contributions to the ...NewsHour audience falls 48 percent over last eight years
Baltimore Sun Television Critic David Zurawik reports that PBS NewsHour has lost 48 percent of its audience over the last eight years. NewsHour‘s average audience, the number ...NPR’s Jean Cochran takes voluntary buyout
Newscaster Jean Cochran, the longest-serving member of NPR’s newscast unit, announced today that she has accepted a voluntary buyout offer from the ...CPM employees take union request to labor relations board
Editorial employees at Chicago Public Media filed a petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board Oct 18 after earlier efforts ...
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