Programs/Content
Suspects charged in connection with 2011 cyberattacks on PBS, other entities
Five suspects, considered among the “most sophisticated hackers in the world” by authorities, were arrested and charged Tuesday (March 6) in Manhattan ...Ombudsman seeks details on WAMU ‘meet the producers’ event
CPB ombudsman Joel Kaplan has urged WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., to release more information about a gathering of major donors and station ...Frontline alumnus will lead incubator for new ventures
Public Media Accelerator, a laboratory for developing new-tech public services backed by a $2.5 million grant from the Knight Foundation, will be ...Indie docs lose viewers, carriage as they’re moved to Thursdays
The shift of Independent Lens from Tuesdays to Thursdays this season has created ratings and carriage woes for the indie-doc showcase.Alvarado as he exits: ‘Change cannot be a complaint’
"... The architecture of public media has to be reimagined immediately or the millennials will build their own parallel universe separate from ...Test Post With Custom Fields
This is just a test…Alex Chadwick: Recharged to cover an energetic beat
Alex Chadwick was lost. It took a journey to an unlikely place — the whitewater rapids of a Utah canyon — for ...Adapting Daisey’s staged monologue for radio: less shouting, more intimacy
Update: On March 16, This American Life retracted “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” its Jan. 6 broadcast that adapted monologist Mike Daisey’s story ...Glass & Co.: Emboldened to tell hard-news stories
Update: On March 16, This American Life retracted “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” its Jan. 6 broadcast that adapted monologist Mike Daisey’s story ...APMG’s Florida classical station grows west with new FM
Miami-based Classical South Florida, an affiliate of American Public Media Group, is expanding its service to the state’s western coast with the ...Policy delay of nonprofit status spikes Chicago News Cooperative
Rumors started quickly, trying to explain why the Chicago News Cooperative was closing. The Internal Revenue Service had rejected the co-op’s application ...New NPR ethics code discourages outside contracts
NPR journalists must seek management approval to sign work contracts with other media outlets, and most such requests will not be granted, ...Keillor’s fundraiser for Obama revives complaints of bias
Like many entertainers, Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor has never tried to hide his liberal political leanings, but his decision to host an ...No-chat zone ’twixt funders and reporters?
Radio news veteran Jim Asendio resigned as news director of Washington’s WAMU-FM last week after an internal dispute over a private fundraising ...Output: PBS’s first-ever Online Film Festival screens 20 short films, gilded applause for The Moth, public ...
Partners in the project are the pubmedia minority consortia — the Center for Asian American Media, Latino Public Broadcasting, Native American Public ...
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