Programs/Content
POV, StoryCorps get $1 million each from MacArthur Foundation
American Documentary, home to PBS’s independent film showcase POV, and StoryCorps, the oral history project heard on NPR, are each receiving $1 million as ...Portrait of a ‘Kind Hearted Woman’ as she finds her voice
Kind-Hearted Woman, David Sutherland's latest documentary series for Frontline is a five-hour story of abuse and triumph for a Native American woman. His meticulous techniques ...Company claiming patent infringement targets podcasters
Personal Audio says it has a patent covering the technology used in podcasting. A representative for the company said no public broadcasters ...Live storytelling, ‘Radio Ambulante’–style
In what may have been a first in live storytelling, close to 200 people listened to tales of Latin America performed with ...Panel discussion focuses on public media’s role in presenting arts to Americans
A Feb. 20 Public Media Futures Forum in Washington, D.C., brought together public media funders, presenters and programmers in a wide-ranging discussion ...Speculators betting big on FCC TV spectrum auctions
For the last few years, three well-funded buyout firms have been quietly picking up licenses to commercial and noncommercial TV stations in ...Putting more public service into public media at 2013 APTS Summit
Representatives from four sectors of the public service community made a case for more partnerships with public television during the opening session ...Pubradio journalist wants western Colorado to ‘See Change’
For a Localore project hosted by KVNF in Paonia, Colo., Julia Kumari Drapkin set out to invert the traditional model of science ...CNBC buys Nightly Business Report; show leaving Miami
Nightly Business Report, the public TV business news show that has repeatedly shed staff during nearly three tumultuous years under two owners, has been ...Wednesday forum to explore public media arts coverage
The latest in an ongoing series of Public Media Futures forums will spotlight public broadcasting’s work surrounding the arts. The Feb. 20 ...MoMA to spotlight POV during its yearly ‘Documentary Fortnight’
As part of its annual “Documentary Fortnight,” the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City is celebrating 25 years of ...KCRW and McSweeney’s partner up for The Organist
KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif., has struck the opening chords for The Organist, a monthly arts-and-culture podcast from McSweeney’s. The program is the latest ...Delmarva Public Radio gets potential new lease on life from Salisbury University
Maryland’s Salisbury University is backing away from a consultant’s plan to farm out operations of its two Delmarva Public Radio stations. A proposal ...A growing push for data-driven documentary filmmaking
Wendy Levy, the director of arts consultancy group New Arts AXIS, called for documentary filmmakers to embrace big data tools as a ...An upbeat trend for classical pubradio despite audience slide
The funeral dirge has been played many times for the classical music radio format, but after decades of decline on both commercial ...
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