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Two news competitors in deficit, so one buys the other in Buffalo
Talks exploring a union between two major public broadcasters in western New York state will culminate with the $4 million sale of ...A comic book to explain media? — a scene so sad that it’s funny
Long after giving a title to her new serious comic book, On the Media co-host Brooke Gladstone is having to explain it away. When ...Listen closely: What matters to your community — and to donors?
“Outreach is about changing somebody else. Engagement is when you have been changed,” says Mikel Ellcessor, g.m. of WDET in Detroit. “And ...Puerto Rican station drops PBS shows
Puerto Rico’s government-controlled WIPR dropped its PBS membership on July 1 — the fourth member station to quit this year. Puerto Rico TV, ...Life without CPB aid scary to LJC startups
The seven Local Journalism Centers that launched with major support from CPB have suddenly found themselves on a short timeline to find ...Life without CPB aid scary to Local Journalism Center startups
The seven Local Journalism Centers that launched with major support from CPB have suddenly found themselves on a short timeline to find ...Arts try out for PBS slot on Fridays
With a nod to mission — and a bid for more major donors — PBS is spotlighting the arts for nine weeks ...StateImpact pilot begins scrutiny of government in eight states
Pubcasters in three states have started airing reports and posting stories online as the first participants in StateImpact, a large-scale project spearheaded ...Changes at Maine documentary school worry its devoted alumni
The departure of the entire four-person faculty from Maine’s small but influential Salt Institute for Documentary Studies has caused concern among the ...Photographer turns lens on himself for survival story
John Kaplan was scared. He’d been diagnosed with not one but two types of lymphoma, and chemotherapy had begun to ravage his ...Appropriation cut, lack of channel doom FM for young Latino L.A.
Los Angeles Public Media, the CPB-backed startup that hoped to serve a new generation of minority listeners in one of the nation’s ...Fanning quotes Friendly: public TV’s greatest right is to ‘rock the boat’ with journalism
In 2011, as partisan critics attacked NPR, Frontline chief David Fanning urged public media to specialize in strong journalism. Fanning, who was accepting ...Georgia ramble turns exposé
Ira Glass didn’t know what he was in for when he walked into the post office in the seaside burg of Brunswick, ...Cyberpirates to PBS: watch where you sail
Software vulnerabilities, including an outdated operating system used by PBS.org, allowed the pirate band of hackers LulzSec to sail deep into the ...Flow plan would push spots deeper into PBS hours
The traditional pledge-drive mantra brags about a piece of public television’s ancestral DNA: “PBS — your home for quality, uninterrupted programming.” So the ...
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