Programs/Content
Burns to produce cancer doc for public TV
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is adapting a book about cancer into a six-hour series for public TV, reports the New York Times. The project ...NPR, WLRN team up to expand reporting on Latin America
NPR and Miami’s WLRN are collaborating to boost coverage of Latin America, with NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro assigned to a new foreign desk ...PBS wades into over the top content streaming with new Roku apps
As of May 8, owners of Roku Internet streaming TV set-top boxes gained access to the first-ever curated collection of PBS shows ...Planet Takeout offers menu of stories
Writer and documentarian Val Wang became fascinated with Chinese takeouts 10 years ago, when she relocated to Brooklyn, N.Y., after living in ...WFMT unveils new streaming archive of Exploring Music
The WFMT Radio Network has unveiled a premium subscription service that provides access to hundreds of hours of archived programs from Exploring Music ...APT, PBS partner to offer Moyers & Company for viewing on COVE
Moyers & Company has become the first American Public Television-distributed program to be presented on the PBS COVE online video player and PBS mobile ...All-Star Orchestra to bring classical masterworks to WNET, APT
The All-Star Orchestra, made up of top professional musicians from across the country, will produce eight pubTV programs of classical masterworks. The ...Audio diarists share new stories in Teenage Diaries Revisited
Beginning May 6 on NPR's All Things Considered, listeners will hear five voices from the past that may have a familiar ring. They’re a ...PRI stations to experiment with locally customized news
The competition for midday timeslots on public radio stations is heating up, as Public Radio International and producers of its news programs ...Facing financial woes, KCETLink to focus on ‘transmedia’
KCETLink laid off 22 full-time employees April 19, signaling another change of course in the Los Angeles public media organization's search for ...Boston audience plays along with High School Quiz Show
Audiences of WGBH’s High School Quiz Show can now play against Massachusetts whiz kids through an online game that launched early this month. The ...Planet Money launches Kickstarter campaign for T-shirt reporting project
NPR launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign backing a special investigative project by Planet Money, its reporting unit that produces multi-platform economics coverage.Live from Boston: A marathon of coverage
Edgar B. Herwick III, a features reporter for WGBH, was enjoying his field assignment on that cool, sunny Monday, interviewing runners as ...KCETLink’s Marcus exits, recalling ‘great run’ with SoCal Connected
Bret Marcus, the KCET exec who led production of the station’s acclaimed local news series SoCal Connected, is among the 22 employees riffed in the ...Long Island psychic finds radio audience eager for forecasts
Listeners to WPPB in Long Island, N.Y., can listen to Morning Edition or the BBC Newshour if they want to know what’s happening now. But if ...
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