Programs/Content
Where the Crossroads films and funding went
CPB’s big America at a Crossroads initiative funded 20 independently produced documentaries on aspects of the post-9/11 world, at a cost not wildly above ...News coop for Chicago: print, online, on WTTW
A multimedia news organization committed to public service journalism will begin producing regional coverage of the Chicago area and Illinois for The New ...Dyson to try again for pubradio stardom
Two daily public radio programs for African American audiences have risen from the ashes of News and Notes, a talk show that ...‘More local, more inclusive, more interactive’
Citing public broadcasting’s “mixed history” in providing local news and information, a blue-ribbon panel has called on the field to “move quickly ...2 Gourmet shows survive their parent magazine
The new series Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth from WGBH will premiere this month despite the demise of its namesake publication, Gourmet magazine, where host Ruth ...It’s a beautiful day for return to Make-Believe
In honor of its 40th anniversary on public TV, the famous Mister Rogers Neighborhood of Make-Believe set, including King Friday XIII’s castle, ...Output of Makers Quest turning up on air, online
These projects were the spawn of Makers Quest 2.0, a CPB-funded, $500,000 initiative, organized by the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), ...New CPB chair sees watershed for public media
Maybe we’re at a 1967 moment again,” says Ernest Wilson III, shortly after his election as chair of the Corporation for Public ...Online symphony, 2 consecutive movements max
Stations that stream all four movements of the entire symphony could be seen as violating the law’s detailed rules — the “performance ...Why fund a whole doc?
Few docs as substantial as The Principal Story, which airs on P.O.V. Sept. 15, are funded in full by a single angel, but this one ...In Pittsburgh, members come first in credits
Viewers like you — by name — have literally moved to the front of the line in underwriting credits at WQED in ...‘Journalism in the raw’ distinguishes ‘The Takeaway’
Live interviews, news sound bites and talk segments featuring voices of people who are living the news are essential elements of the ...World multicast channel: an incubator for diversity?
WGBH and WNET are “re-imaging and re-engineering” the PBS World documentary-oriented multicast channel, which has been picked up by only about 40 ...For WAMU and its listeners, HD Radio means more slices of pie to go around
As a self-proclaimed evangelist for HD Radio, I am often asked why I have inculcated it so deeply in the workings of ...Clash at Crossroads
Could CPB have avoided the public collision of wills over one of the America at a Crossroads documentaries that tainted its $20 million project ...
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