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Dyson show prepares for second pubradio launch
Baltimore’s WEAA has begun piloting the Michael Eric Dyson Show, a midday talk show that is being reincarnated for a second try at pubradio ...Fanning on a ‘big bang’ moment for Frontline: bringing online depth to reporting
David Fanning, e.p. of Frontline, discussed the WGBH program’s evolving use of the Web Aug. 23, 2010, in accepting the Goldsmith Career Award ...Hopes of viewers and producers invested in Need to Know
Ten weeks before the air date of Need to Know, WNET announced the executive producer. Seven weeks before, the producing station named the co-anchors. ...Radio nets and PBS propose ‘public media platform’ based on API
... National Public Radio requested CPB aid to begin technical and business planning of a shared web platform with American Public Media, ...Shared reporting planned for Ohio Basin ecosystem
If any news subject lends itself to coverage by multistation collaborations, it’s the environment of places like the Ohio River Valley, a ...FM, web audiences elusive so far for innovative Vocalo
Chicago Public Radio’s board, staff and executives didn’t mince words in their latest strategic plan about their bold experiment known as Vocalo. ...For NewsHour, one staff is stronger than two
They busted down newsroom walls, adding some space but much more humanity, doubling the number of desks, adding new editing stations and ...What’s the job for the Public Media Corps?
Modeled on programs like Americorps and Teach for America, the Public Media Corps will hire local residents as “fellows” for yearlong residencies ...Back to the future: Here’s a way public TV can ramp up local news
Those calling for more local news from public media — and those experimenting with new ways to provide it — should examine ...‘Tent-poles’ ahead
PBS is raising tent-poles to reinvigorate its primetime lineup. Over the next one to three years, it will shrink down a number ...The ears have it: classical that’s upbeat, melodic, forward-moving
Looking to lift up your midday radio audience? Try some uplifting music. That’s a lesson from 10 classical radio stations that have been ...Public TV takes note: health care bills have billions for education
Health-care legislation now pending in Congress may be one of the best new sources of support for public-service content, public TV’s lobbyists ...To save journalism, click ’n’ donate?
Now a dot-com called Kachingle is starting to roll out an online service designed to make voluntary support easy for even the ...Pipeline 2010
Projects listed in Current’s annual Pipeline survey are down from 162 last year to 128, which may be consistent with the Great Recession, ...Plant interferes with program funding, though just for 8 years
A haze of assumptions hung over the film. “Nobody would go near the show,” Schwarz says. “This was the height of the ...
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