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Pubradio, artists pair up to promote music radio
Public radio stations and NPR are promoting April as Public Radio Music Month, a campaign designed to raise awareness of the cultural ...Knight seeds investigative news channel on YouTube
The nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is launching an investigative news channel on YouTube to serve as a hub for investigative journalism. ...Output: BackStory with the American History Guys scales up to weekly
Produced as a series of monthly specials since 2008, the show will relaunch in May with new segments exploring historical themes suggested ...Hearing by ethics watchdog could sew up feud in Seattle
Members of a Seattle-based media-watchdog group weighed in March 31 [2012] on a yearlong dispute between an antiabortion group and KUOW, the ...NPR deal will help to measure, and monetize, web streaming
An agreement between NPR and Triton Digital, a provider of digital services to radio stations, will give NPR stations a new option ...CPB will give guidelines to journalism hubs
CPB is evaluating proposals from six regional journalism hubs for another year of operation and will furnish the centers with a shared ...WTCI plans to launch a new multicast channel of local programming with seed funding from ...
WTCI plans to launch a new multicast channel of local programming with seed funding from the city of Chattanooga. The Voyager channel will ...PRI adapted Studio 360 segment for an iPad book.
For its foray into e-book publishing, Public Radio International chose “Teacher Redesign,” in which a New York design firm created a branding ...Journalism hubs should continue, but with guidelines, evaluation says
A consultant who evaluated the performance of seven CPB-backed Local Journalism Centers has recommended that CPB continue funding the multimedia startups for ...Digital journalists look for lessons in work of Andy Carvin, NPR’s one-man newsroom
On a recent afternoon at NPR, Andy Carvin was watching a video of a protest purportedly shot in the Syrian city of ...Simple Googling dug up what Daisey had hidden
Within a few hours of phoning the translator who refuted key details in a This American Life show about factories that manufacture Apple products ...@acarvin’s example
After the Arab Spring began, NPR's Andy Carvin remains a rare breed. More journalists are using Twitter to find stories and connect ...Late date seals fate of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s debate
When three unlikely partners — a conservative newspaper in the nation’s capital, a blue-state Republican organization and a public broadcasting station in ...PBS weighs new night for Indie Lens, POV, after uproar
PBS has agreed to consider “alternative scheduling options” for the independent production showcases Independent Lens and POV, which lost carriage and audience after the network moved ...APM displaces PRI as BBC World Service distributor
American Public Media will begin distributing the BBC World Service to U.S. pubradio stations July 1 [2012], ending the British network’s 26-year ...
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