Programs/Content
Not-too-strange new bedfellows: print refugees
Groundbreaking collaborations are beginning to surface as public broadcasting stations partner with laid-off print journalists to bolster multiplatform local and regional reporting.Burns pipeline to pump despite GM withdrawal
Ken Burns will proceed with his films as planned despite General Motors’ withdrawal as a major sponsor, according to Washington’s WETA, Burns’ ...This explorer bio may be a cartoon, but not a simple-minded one
Christopher expects that the animation will attract young viewers. Moreover, it enabled him to visualize a Native American parable that figured in ...Latino producers to PBS: Diversity data ‘incomplete and often anecdotal’
The Diversity Committee of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers sent this letter to PBS about its November 2008 Report on ...OPB’s ‘Silent Invasion’ doc/outreach project
Katy June-Friesen talks with talks with Oregon Public Broadcasting producer Ed Jahn about the documentary Silent Invasion, which won a duPont-Columbia University Award last ...Forum Network: Low-profile lecture outlet gets national backing
Seven years after WGBH began its on-demand video archive of the often-stellar lectures and cultural events of the Boston area, it’s getting ...The challenge for public radio: Letting go of our expected future
The fact that the public radio audience is 82 percent white is a problem when the public we aspire to serve is ...Schiller: ‘No reason for NPR to go it alone’ on the Web
An often touted and tabled proposal to recast public radio’s web presence as a combination of content from NPR and its member ...Many stations packaging their own kids’ channels
With the all-digital future arriving, if haltingly, and a bigger share of viewers likely to come through DTV multicast channels, ...Worldcasts: Long-overdue broadening of news horizons
Anyone who watched, say, the ABC World News in late November and early December would have known that a tiny band of terrorists had ...You are now entering the campaign Logic Zone
With radio and TV clogged with shouting heads, with blogs and e-mail threads dominated by partisan invective, is there room in the ...Pipeline 2009
This annual list, now incorporating its Dec. 22 addendum, includes about 180 noninstructional projects one hour or longer in various stages of ...‘Electric Company’ returns, Naomi still missing
A new Electric Company, based on that 1970s PBS hit, premieres Jan. 19.Car bomb attack thwarted: ‘We made it out, and we’re alive’
"Being in Baghdad is a narrow escape every day,” says Loren Jenkins, NPR foreign editor, reflecting on the dangers surrounding the network’s ...Show is kaput, but lessons from host flap resound
Bill Lichtenstein, executive producer of pubradio’s The Infinite Mind, got a phone call Nov. 20 from a New York Times reporter with troubling information: the program’s ...
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