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Cocktails to honor Big Bird and friends? That’s the spirit
When public radio managers gathered for November’s Super-Regional Meeting in New Orleans, home to Bourbon Street and the drive-through daiquiri bar, NPR ...Hoppe brings ‘outward focus’ to new role as PBS’s chief programmer
PASADENA, Calif. — The special package of primetime shows about gun violence that PBS unveiled to television critics Monday offers an example ...Use of crowdfunding site flags under APM
Spot.us, the crowdfunding website allowing journalists to raise funds for their reporting projects, has been hit by a sharp decline in usage ...WNYC shares previously unreleased recordings of Martin Luther King Jr. interviews
New York’s WNYC has released for the first time recordings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. interviewed on several occasions in ...Next Avenue, pubmedia site for seniors, sees “win-win” in partnership with RLTV
Next Avenue — the online magazine for Americans aged 50 years and older created by Twin Cities Public Television — is now ...Is it fall for Downton Abbey? Scheduling is “complicated,” Kerger says
PBS is weighing whether to schedule the debut of the next season of Downton Abbey for the fall, when it is set to air ...PRX set to launch overhaul of Public Radio Player iPhone app
Four years after the first iteration of PRX’s Public Radio Player iPhone launched, a complete, “ground-up rewrite” is ready, with features including ...PBS inks deals for on-demand access to local station content
PBS unveiled deals to distribute public TV programs on two additional on-demand video streaming platforms — Roku and Xbox Live. The contracts, unveiled last ...Edwardian-themed screenings provide jolly good show for Downton fans
To whet local viewers’ appetites for the return of the megahit British drama Downton Abbey this Sunday, more than 100 pubcasting stations across the ...Mullins exits The World as Werman steps up as full-time host
Dec. 31, 2012, marked the last day that Lisa Mullins, longtime host of PRI’s The World, held that position. On Jan. 1, reporter and ...NPR makes ATC hosting changes
NPR today announced changes to its roster of co-hosts for All Things Considered. Audie Cornish, who had been guest-hosting during Michele Norris’s leave of ...Mr. Cao Goes to Washington balances on the bipartisan fence
S. Leo Chiang's latest documentary examines partisanship and race “through the eyes of an idealist centrist who happens to be an Asian-American ...Jesse Thorn: Bullseye will stay on public radio after leaving PRI
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn will continue to be heard over broadcast radio after the show has left distributor PRI in spring 2013, host and ...NPR’s Carvin stands by Twitter coverage of Newtown shooting
Did NPR’s tweeter extraordinaire Andy Carvin go overboard during the media frenzy surrounding the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn.? Michael Wolff ...Burns family takes on controversial case, and city of New York, in critically acclaimed documentary
The Central Park Five, written and directed by Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon, is not one of his ...
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