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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 ...Decade of StoryCorps chats inspires NPR and PBS specials, book and gala
StoryCorps begins marking its 10-year anniversary this week with a special series airing on NPR’s Morning Edition. The segments include an interview with StoryCorps ...On The Longest Shortest Time, Hillary Frank finds solace in stories of other parents
Pubradio producer Hillary Frank channeled her experiences during a difficult pregnancy into parenting podcast The Longest Shortest Time, which recently completed a successful Kickstarter ...NPR to announce new voice of underwriting credits
NPR plans to unveil tomorrow the name of the on-air talent who has been chosen to voice its underwriting credits as a ...PBS, stations lukewarm to CPTV’s ‘pay to play’ mobile app
Local public TV stations and PBS have opted, for now, to sit out of Connecticut Public Television’s new digital venture offering paid ...
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