Programs/Content
NPR combining news apps, multimedia teams
NPR’s news applications and multimedia operations are merging into a single unit to be headed by current News Applications Editor Brian Boyer. “We ...Film takes intimate look at lives of Latina actresses
Filmmaker Andrea Meller, born in the U.S. and of Chilean descent, was searching for her identity as a Latina when she came ...Downton Abbey once again helps generate big budget surplus for PBS
PBS closed its books on fiscal 2013 with an extra $24.5 million — more than twice the $11 million surplus that bolstered ...American Grad survey details support and challenges
A new survey of more than 460 community partners in CPB’s American Graduate project found enthusiasm for the station-based dropout-prevention initiative as ...With board support gone, KBOO leader calls it quits
The Portland community station has new leadership at the top and on its board after a failed bid to revamp workplace practices.TPT rebrands youth initiative as ReWire
Twin Cities Public Television has adopted the name ReWire for the statewide network’s youth programming and engagement initiative. TPT settled on the ...WNYC’s homemade sensors provide new tools for detecting stories
WNYC is among the media outlets that are working to extend that domain to include members of their audiences, tapping into communities ...Ray Suarez lands at AJA’s D.C.-based newsmag Inside Story
Veteran public broadcasting newsman Ray Suarez, who resigned from PBS NewsHour Oct. 25 after nearly 15 years, will host Inside Story on satellite news channel Al ...Latino advocacy group criticizes PBS treatment of newsman Ray Suarez
A grass-roots organization that protested Ken Burns’s exclusion of World War II Latino soldiers’ experiences from his 2007 documentary The War is speaking out ...Gettysburg native retells 150-year-old story through latest technology
A new documentary airing on Maryland Public Television this month incorporates high-tech cinematography to offer a fresh new take on the 150-year-old ...AIR, PRNDI partner on guidelines for radio freelancers
The Association of Independents in Radio and Public Radio News Directors Inc. are collaborating on a set of guidelines for local pubradio ...Bill Moyers ending Moyers & Company in January
Bill Moyers announced today to his colleagues in public TV that the last broadcast of his Moyers & Company public-affairs show will air Jan. ...Foundation to sell 87-year old commercial classical radio station
KDB in Santa Barbara, Calif., one of the few remaining commercial classical radio stations, has been put up for sale by the ...Focus on anti-terrorism becomes ‘life-changing’ story for filmmaker Poitras
After plumbing the global repercussions of America’s war against terrorism, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras helped expose how that war has stripped away ...With Sparticl, TPT hopes to make STEM learning fun
Twin Cities Public Television launched Sparticl, a new STEM-focused sharing website geared toward middle-school students, Oct. 1 with support from a major ...
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