Programs/Content
Preparing public media newsrooms to cover local crises
Crisis coverage will stress several layers of a public station's operating systems — from newsroom layout to editorial decision-making; from the flexibility ...Sesame Workshop trims 10 percent of workforce as financial losses mount
Sesame Workshop, production home to the iconic pubTV children’s program Sesame Street, announced Tuesday that it is laying off 10 percent of its workforce, ...Salt Lake City’s KCPW cites program costs, duplication in canceling NPR programs
Salt Lake City pubcaster Wasatch Public Media, licensee of KCPW-FM, will drop all NPR programs June 24, a schedule change intended to ...Yore departs Marketplace as APM pares executive ranks
J.J. Yore, a veteran producer credited as a creator of the public radio show Marketplace, was one of three senior executives riffed June 17 ...Public TV shows garner 14 Daytime Emmys; Sesame Street scores six
Programs on public television received 13 creative arts honors and one broadcast statuette in Daytime Emmy Award ceremonies Friday and Sunday in ...WXXI’s web-first series on sculpture project captures drama of artistic process
In a first for the station, Rochester’s WXXI has premiered a series on the Web, following sculptor Albert Paley as he creates ...Stations fear exclusion from show production as PBS shifts strategy
When PBS unveiled its fall slate of primetime programs during its recent conference in Miami Beach, Fla., in May, many of the ...Author of Martha Speaks sues WGBH in dispute over ancillary revenues
The author and illustrator of the book that inspired the PBS Kids series Martha Speaks is claiming that producing station WGBH owes her thousands ...NewsHour closing two offices, dropping 10 positions, according to internal memo
PBS NewsHour is shutting offices in Denver and San Francisco and eliminating several positions at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., Executive Producer Linda Winslow ...Fresh Air returning to daytime in Mississippi
Fresh Air will air during daytime hours on MPB’s Think Radio network for the first time since 2010, when the network’s then–Executive Director Judith ...Ombud answers watchdog’s concerns about public radio’s America Abroad
The ombudsman for America Abroad, a monthly public radio show covering foreign policy and international affairs, has responded to criticism from the media watchdog ...Fred Rogers’ production company moves out of WQED
The Fred Rogers Co., the production company that continues to create new PBS Kids series a decade after the death of its ...WBUR microsite explores Mass. drug lab crisis
In late May, WBUR published “Bad Chemistry: Annie Dookhan and the Massachusetts Drug Lab Crisis,” an online report on a former state ...Nonprofit newsrooms struggle with long-term funding, Pew study finds
Finding long-term, sustainable funding remains a top concern of the country’s nonprofit news outlets, according to the results of a new study ...APM series examines exoneration in the U.S.
“After Innocence: Exoneration in America” provides an in-depth look at wrongful imprisonment in the U.S.
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