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Chevy’s upcoming in-dash app selection to include NPR
General Motors announced Monday that the NPR News app will be featured in the inaugural suite of in-car apps the automaker has ...Station screenings, promo barrage prep fans for Downton debut
The Downton Abbey blitz is on, from festive station events to huge digital ads behind the famous New Year’s Eve countdown ball in Times ...Web series explores what Black Folk Don’t do
Doing yoga, going green and enjoying winter sports sound like innocuous topics for a public media web series — that is, until ...Omidyar and Greenwald’s new journalism venture will be incorporated nonprofit
First Look Media, a new journalism organization backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and headed by former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, will include a 501(c)3 ...LPB content grants go to nine programs, including two web series
Latino Public Broadcasting announced today that it is backing nine programs through its Public Media Content Fund, which supports Latino-themed content for ...CPB grants $1.4M to new Local Journalism Center focusing on energy
CPB will award $1.4 million to seven public radio and TV stations for the creation of a new Local Journalism Center covering ...Seventeen stations win grants from POV for outreach on education docs
One of the films, Brooklyn Castle, looks at a junior-high chess squad that has won more than 30 national championships, more than any other ...Producers take podcast covering marketing innovations to pubradio distribution
Ad man and podcaster Mike O’Toole has teamed up with veteran pubradio producer Jim Russell to adapt a narrative-focused business podcast into ...Flatow finds more traction for ‘Science Friday’ in PRI distribution
After two decades as a weekly NPR program, the 22-year-old Science Friday is preparing to shake things up. With its move to Public Radio ...Grants, donations to NPR support expanded reporting, app for personalized listening
NPR has lined up $17 million in grants and individual gifts to expand two beat-reporting units and to complete development of an ...Pubmedia stations, initiatives on list of latest Art Works grants from NEA
Alabama Public Television, WHYY, Transom.org and New York Public Radio are among the grantees.Rock, rot and rule: Best Show ends as Tom Scharpling looks to a life beyond WFMU
From WFMU’s tiny studios in Jersey City, N.J., using only rock songs, his own creativity and contributions of guests and callers, Scharpling ...There’s Large trouble ahead on Doc Martin
Ian McNeice, the actor who plays rotund plumber-turned-restaurateur Bert Large, and Joe Absolom, cast as his lanky son Al, dropped some ominous ...Follow Planet Money’s Kickstarted T-shirt odyssey
The cotton T-shirt, a public radio merchandising staple, is front-and-center in a new multimedia project from NPR's economics reporting unit Planet Money.Revised CPB policy could lead to ‘significant’ penalties for noncompliance
As more local pubcasters fall out of compliance with CPB’s rules for transparency and open meetings, they put themselves at risk of ...
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