Programs/Content
When developing films, Ken Burns selects topics that make “light bulbs go off”
Ken Burns decides on films through a deliberative process, involving both his creative team and accommodating PBS’s desire for multipart series that ...After 17 years, PRI ending distribution of This American Life
Public Radio International announced today that it will end distribution of one of its biggest titles, This American Life. The Minneapolis-based PRI has offered TAL to stations ...Films for national parks’ visitor centers evolve into Civil War history series
Elizabeth McGovern, the American actress known to many Masterpiece viewers as the well-heeled Lady Cora of the hit Brit drama Downton Abbey, narrates the often ...PBS Digital Studios, Indiegogo partner on crowdfunding for stations’ online videos
The network wants stations to build up sustainable, supportive audiences for digital series.Panelists testify to inspiring global power of documentary films
This article has been updated and reposted with additional information. Women and Girls Lead Global, a public media–based international outreach program, is ...“This is Radio”: Transom videos celebrate innovators of airwaves
Transom is launching a new video series in a push to create more public radio fans.Forthcoming NPR mobile app could advance public radio’s quest for digital audience
Public radio executives who have long bemoaned the field’s collective inability to pursue innovation have a new opportunity to alter that dynamic ...Texas Tribune doubles down on live streaming after success with Wendy Davis filibuster
A key role in covering a Texas lawmaker's 2013 filibuster led to an expanded focus on video for the nonprofit news organization.PBS mulls strategy to boost kids’ ratings
With many local pubcasters reporting sharp declines in daytime viewership, PBS programmers are reevaluating scheduling strategies for children’s programs, trying to get ...NPR’s Generation Listen celebrates one year, looks ahead at SXSW
The effort to reach the under-30 crowd has had an "experimental" first year, its creator said.NPR to stock new mobile app by aiding stations on back end
NPR is preparing member stations to provide local news for the network’s new mobile app, slated for release by summer. NPR content chief ...NPR intends to keep two different clocks for newsmagazines
NPR has indicated that it’s unlikely to adopt an identical clock for its two flagship newsmagazines, a proposal put forward by station ...A new spin on Cosmos comes to commercial TV
When Carl Sagan's widow Ann Druyan couldn't reach an agreement with PBS over her remake of the iconic pubTV series, Fox rolled ...With new ‘Cosmos’ on horizon, makers of original look back
The "Cosmonauts" share memories of their voyage onboard the first Spaceship of the Imagination: dealing with warlike production conditions, creating Saturn's rings ...Odd Squad to be PBS Kids’ newest math learning series
It’s a question that parents and teachers struggle to answer at home and in the classroom: how do we make math fun ...
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