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Young promoter cancels his debut as Fred Rogers’ successor
Michael Kinsell, who planned to present himself as the next Mister Rogers at a controversial gala on Sunday in San Diego, told Current ...PBS objects to fundraiser by ‘successor’ to Mister Rogers
PBS is accusing a San Diego teenager of “falsely claiming association” with the network and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He is selling tickets for a ...In PBS news cooperation talks, Bettag says, ‘nobody pulled back’
Tom Bettag, the former ABC Nightline and CBS News producer, says he’s “on a very fast timeline” to report to PBS by June 15 ...Recession 101 is the next course for 22 pubradio journalists
A new journalism training program offered by NPR News and funded by CPB will train 22 public radio reporters from 19 states ...Online collaboration: TV, radio have sitdowns
PBS will go public Wednesday with discussion of its News & Public Affairs Initiative — an ongoing study that’s weighing options for ...Planet Money grew ‘organically’ from ‘A Giant Pool of Money’
In this Q&A, Karen Everhart talks with This American Life producer Alex Blumberg and NPR reporter Adam Davidson.Your local network, the Tribe of ‘A Giant Pool’
We can see much of a new value proposition for public media in a new pattern that we can all copy and ...When the producer’s take diverges from the reporter’s
Following a very public dustup, Frontline and correspondent T.R. Reid have parted ways. The split leaves series producers and freelance on-air correspondents examining ...It’s all been good for whatshisname since he was rejected by the dump
A wayward, 6-foot stuffed gorilla arrived at WDSE-TV in Duluth, Minn. in time for the annual Kids Club Circus last week. Its ...WNYC’s Greene Performance Space now open
WNYC radio opened its long-awaited Jerome L. Greene Performance Space on Tuesday in Lower Manhattan, reports The New York Times. It’s wired ...Is it time to kick out Andre Rieu?
Posted in Current‘s reader forum, DirectCurrent, by Mark Jeffries on April 22, 2009 at 12:55pm In the Current article on spring fundraising and pledge ...In crisis, NBR gets calmly down to business
“Investments are not a sport, not a game, not entertainment,” says NBR co-anchor Susie Gharib, echoing the mantra of the most resolutely serious ...On the Media apologizes for Infinite Mind lapse
On the Media, the NPR-distributed weekly press review, released a correction last week apologizing for what it called a “lapse in journalistic judgment” in ...That subscription fuss? An early spark in an evolving relationship
“News this good isn’t free.” I find myself delivering some variation on that remark during every single public radio pledge break on ...News cycle attracts record listening
NPR programming on public radio stations topped its previous audience record by reaching 27.5 million listeners a week during Arbitron’s fall 2008 ...
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