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Newman’s own way: ‘speak up and do things’
In June 2007, when conservative publisher Rupert Murdoch purchased the venerable Wall Street Journal, actor and philanthropist Paul Newman was upset. Wary of Murdoch’s ...High stakes + direct access = full engagement
Noel Gunther remembers the moment when he realized that public broadcasting had to get involved in traumatic brain injury education. It was ...Local, online, news, profitable, sustainable — Which word does not belong with the others?
“The big opportunity — and where the most disruption is — is in local media.”—Vivian Schiller, president, NPR “I have little doubt ...New NPR Chair Dave Edwards to name panel on improving net’s services for radio
Dave Edwards, g.m. of Milwaukee Public Radio (WUWM) for 25 years, who took over this month as chair of the NPR Board, ...NPR Board hires counsel to probe what went wrong
Reacting to NPR’s abrupt image makeover — from ascendant news organization to partisan punching bag — the network’s board last week hired ...NPR’s Juan Williams fired for one too many opinionated comment
NPR President Vivian Schiller has apologized to public radio for how she and her executives handled last month’s dismissal of news analyst ...NPR sets a goal: add 100 reporters to statehouse beats
A multiyear initiative led by NPR, Impact of Government, eventually will put two additional state-level reporters to work in each of the ...Under-explained firing makes NPR an issue just in time for election
Top NPR officials may have thought their Oct. 20 decision to dismiss veteran journalist Juan Williams was about journalistic objectivity, but to ...Next Avenue will use Web to super-serve a (slightly) younger PBS audience
When Jim Pagliarini and Judy Diaz say public TV should pay more attention to a younger audience, they’re not thinking of viewers ...At the Movies returns in 2011 with new cast, Ebert producing
Renowned movie critic Roger Ebert, who literally owns the trademarked thumbs-up/thumbs-down gesture, is returning to public TV, where he started his on-air ...Study sees growth if NPR loosens up, sounds less elite
A new study for NPR identifies a much bigger potential news audience for public radio if producers craft shows to be ...Thinking outside the core
While our audience stereotypes may be better informed than they were 40 years ago, they can blind us to our potential ...Instructional TV sales exec moves to NBR’s bigger league
In his career in the media niche of instructional television, Mykalai Kontilai worked with several respected names in public broadcasting as well ...Instructional TV sales exec moves to NBR’s bigger league
In his career in the media niche of instructional television, Mykalai Kontilai worked with several respected names in public broadcasting as well ...Journalists counted: 3,200 pros; 6,000 total
Public broadcasting has 3,224 professional journalists plus 2,770 nonprofessionals contributing to its reporting, making a total of nearly 6,000, according to a ...
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