Programs/Content
June public television pledge drives up 13.5 percent from last year
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Skills from American Public Television was among the shows generating cash for stations.Public Media Platform to focus on business planning in project’s second phase
DENVER — The Public Media Platform is moving into the next phase of its CPB grant, shifting its focus to developing a ...Knight Foundation grants $750,000 to three public media projects
DENVER — Three public media projects aimed at developing new audiences, revenue and content will each receive $250,000 from the John S. ...Barriers to newsroom collaborations lower than pubcasters think
“Neither journalism nor public life will move forward until the public actually rethinks and reinterprets what journalism is: not the science or ...Stations find no easy replacements for soon-to-be-canceled Tell Me More
The cancellation of NPR’s Tell Me More is leaving pubradio program directors struggling to fill the gap left by the show, which presented diverse ...Proposed NPR clocks would add morning newscasts, longer underwriting credits
A proposed revamp of NPR’s newsmagazines would allow for longer underwriting credits, expand the number of morning newscasts, and incorporate American Public ...Salt Lake City’s KCPW hits fundraising goal to keep programming
With a day to spare, Salt Lake City’s KCPW-FM hit its goal of raising $42,000 to pay off delinquent programming fees and ...New This American Life podcast will serialize investigative stories
This American Life announced today that it will launch a new podcast this fall, titled Serial. TAL host Ira Glass said on the show’s blog that ...StoryCorps launches initiative to collect LGBT oral history
The oral-history project StoryCorps is expanding its vast archive of Americans’ personal stories with OutLoud, a special initiative focusing on the LGBTQ ...Arizona PBS to become ‘teaching hospital’ for ASU’s Cronkite School
The university transfers station operations today from its public-affairs department to its J-school, opening up new possibilities for collaboration.Editor says merger in St. Louis has boosted web traffic, strengthened reporting
The organization resulting from the merger of the St. Louis Beacon and St. Louis Public Radio is already realizing benefits from the ...New Hampshire Public Radio acquiring small classical station WCNH-FM
New Hampshire Public Radio is purchasing WCNH-FM, a 250-watt classical station that has been broadcasting from the state network’s Concord studios for ...Frontline receives nearly $6 million in two grants
Frontline, public television’s investigative news showcase, announced two major donations Wednesday, including the largest grant from individuals in its 30-year history. Most of ...Temple University axes nonprofit news site AxisPhilly, shifts focus to other ventures
The Center for Public Interest Journalism at Temple University shuttered nonprofit news website AxisPhilly June 13 after two years of reporting that ...With ‘Smartbinge,’ WNYC aims to raise national profile for digital content
In an effort to position itself as a national brand in public radio, New York’s WNYC is launching an ad campaign likening ...
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