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More dark clouds gather over ‘Reading Rainbow’ legal wrangling
WNED accuses LeVar Burton of hijacking an online library and transferring show distribution rights to a friend.North Country Public Radio project collects photos to trace a changing northern New York
NCPR is building an open-source platform to collect photos of locals working from the earliest days of permanent settlement in the region ...Dramatic films take prizes in PBS Online Film Festival
Jurors and viewers picked shorts presented by NBPC and PIC.Tennessee TV station to launch monthly screening series at local art-house theater
“PBS at the Palace” aims for broad appeal with its documentaries and dramas.New ‘Washington Week’ host aims to favor balance over frivolity
Robert Costa told TV writers that he wants to focus on “fact-based analysis” in his role as moderator.PBS’s Kerger warns of station shutdowns if CPB goes dark
"There is no plan B" to replace federal funding, Paula Kerger told TV critics during her executive session at the Summer Press ...Luna arrives, Ruffman returns and more from the PBS Press Tour
Also, "The Great American Read" will let viewers vote on the nation's favorite book.PBS’ Online Film Festival tells diverse stories through expanded partner base
In its sixth year, the festival has added a "juried" prize, which is chosen by an esteemed panel of independent film experts.‘Takeaway’ host Hockenberry to step down in August
Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich will host during the search for a successor.What America do public TV’s documentaries represent?
A new study finds that documentaries co-produced and funded by the Independent Television Service are made by women and people of color ...NPR wins award to experiment with virtual-reality audio
The NPR project is among 11 winners of the Journalism 360 Challenge awards.As it upgrades NPR One, NPR will promote app on-air
NPR also aims to improve how the app connects users to local stations.Hosts reveal the unseen forces at work on ‘Invisibilia’
Each episode of the NPR podcast can take up to four months to complete.Watch our screening and panel discussion of Marlon Riggs’ ‘Tongues Untied’
The latest installment in our "Get With the Program" series focuses on a groundbreaking 1991 film.PRI becomes investor in public radio’s ‘Live Wire’
The live variety show is adding episodes devoted to in-studio interviews.
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