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CPB recognizes Moore, an author and youth advocate, as a pubcasting “Thought Leader”
Wes Moore, the host of Beyond Belief on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and author of the bestseller The Other Wes Moore, won CPB’s Thought Leader Award, ...Wisconsin lawmakers seek to hobble nonprofit investigative journalism center
Republicans in Wisconsin’s state legislature are looking to bar the state’s public broadcasters and biggest university from contributing to an investigative-journalism center ...Food shows produced for PBS, WHYY and WBEZ cited for excellence
Public broadcasters won four James Beard Foundation awards for outstanding food journalism.Listening to Boston news radio spiked during week of bombings, analysis shows
Boston’s news radio stations saw sharp increases in listening in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings April 15, a finding highlighted ...Luoma, Cornwell recognized for achievements in local scheduling
In a citation honoring Maine Public TV’s Kelly Luoma as the Charles Impaglia Programmer of the Year, PTPA lauded her “for tirelessly ...PBS buys more of what works in primetime
As public television’s chief program exec and top producers unveiled highlights of the fall 2013 primetime schedule at the PBS Annual Meeting ...WYSO explores industrial city’s reinvention
The recession in Dayton provides the backdrop for ReInvention Stories, a multimedia Localore project that brought together the Association of Independents in ...On hunt for more midday carriage, APM and BBC alter Newshour clock
Beginning July 1, the BBC’s Newshour will alter its show clock, ceding 4.5 additional minutes from its newscast for local cutaways. The ...NPR’s Code Switch digs into racial discomfort
When Southern country singer Brad Paisley shared his awkward view of race relations in his controversial song “Accidental Racist” last month, the ...WXXI ends 54-year run of Assignment: The World due to lack of funding
Assignment: The World, the longest-running social-studies instructional TV program in the country, broadcast its last episode May 23. WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., which produced ...Alaska Public Media’s new web-first series is part of its ‘video renaissance’
Alaska Public Media has introduced a new weekly web-first series in what promises to be its “larger video renaissance.” Indie Alaska, a weekly YouTube ...Volunteers take back Radio Catskill
WJFF Radio Catskill runs on hydroelectric power and the passion of its volunteers, who recently rallied to force a change in leadership.Stations continue StateImpact without NPR
NPR provided training and support to 17 participating stations, but has dropped plans to expand StateImpact to all 50 states.Unscathed by tornado, Oklahoma pubcasters band together to report, assist with relief
Oklahoma has a small but tight-knit pubcasting community, so covering the massive May 20 tornado and its aftermath required everyone on the ...Sesame Workshop and Ape Entertainment release first-ever Sesame Street comic book
Sesame Workshop and Ape Entertainment released the first comic book featuring the cast of Sesame Street May 4, to coincide with national ...
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