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Audit recommends separating heads of Jefferson Public Radio, fundraising group
An Oregon University System audit of Jefferson Public Radio and its fundraising organization is citing a potential conflict of interest in having ...After 20 years, BBC moving distribution of World Service from PRI to APM
The BBC has selected American Public Media as the exclusive distributor of its World Service to pubradio in the United States, ending ...FCC challenging Daystar qualifications to purchase pubstations in Waco, Orlando
The FCC is questioning the Daystar religious broadcasting network’s qualifications to purchase two public television stations, citing lack of sufficient proof of ...PBS agrees to consider moving indie showcases after online outcry from filmmakers
In reaction to recent pressure from the indie film community following Current’s story on PBS’s move of Independent Lens and P.O.V. from Tuesdays to Thursdays, the ...Two ex-candidates sue WNIN, alleging exclusion from 2010 debate
Two former Libertarian candidates for Congress are suing pubcaster WNIN in Evansville, Ind., contending they were wrongly excluded from a debate at ...News editor Khalid gone from Baltimore’s WYPR-FM
Sunni Khalid, managing news editor at WYPR-FM in Baltimore, is gone from the station after more than nine years, reports The Baltimore Sun. His ...DEI and AIR will mentor radio producers in proposal writing
Amie Klempnauer Miller, who has written proposals that raised more than $20 million, will mentor a pilot group of AIR producers this ...NPR hires Edith Chapin from CNN as new senior foreign editor
NPR News announced today (March 21) that it has hired CNN v.p.and deputy bureau chief Edith Chapin to lead its foreign desk, ...Aero files countersuit to complaint from PBS, WNET, other broadcasters
Aereo, an new online TV service supported by media mogul Barry Diller, has filed a countersuit against PBS, WNET and several other ...Charlotte’s WTVI to merge with local community college
The merger of PBS member station WTVI in Charlotte, N.C., with Central Piedmont Community College was approved Tuesday (March 20) by Mecklenburg ...NPR plans to develop geotargeting app for Facebook
NPR is applying for a Knight News Challenge grant of $340,000 to develop an app, GeoGraph, based on its successful experiment last ...NewsHour offers more international coverage than rest of TV newscasts, Pew report finds
The State of the News Media 2012, the annual report from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, was released ...NPR offering new online system to map analog, digital radio and TV signal coverage
NPR Labs has launched an interactive online mapping system, reports Radio World, to give pubradio and pubTV stations a better idea of ...FCC announces plan to resolve backlog of FM translator apps
The FCC took another step yesterday toward licensing more low-power FM stations, which advocates for community radio have been awaiting for years. ...Writers Guild of America, East, voices support for “Independent Lens” petition
The Writers Guild of America, East, is urging its 4,000 members to sign Kartemquin Film’s online open letter to PBS protesting the ...
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