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American Graduate launches revamped website
The website for CPB’s American Graduate initiative relaunched today (March 19) with a new research center, video from pubstations around the country, ...Concern over “Independent Lens” shift to Thursdays grows
Current’s March 12 story on the ratings and carriage drop for Independent Lens, and larger issues associated with programming diverse content, is getting wider attention. ...Deadline approaching for INPUT travel grants
Want to go to INPUT, the International Public Television Screening Conference, May 7-12 in Sydney? CPB is providing a limited number of ...Ira Glass on his nervous pitch to monologist Mike Daisey
Current’s Feb. 27 story on This American Life’s recent breakthroughs with enterprise reporting describes the inspiration behind “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” the story ...Scripps Howard Awards include pubmedia journalists
Several public-media reporters are winners of the annual Scripps Howard Awards, recognizing excellence across multiple platforms. Journalists from California Watch and the ...OPB nearly got to star in “Daily Show” mock-debate sketch
The cancellation of the GOP presidential debate set for Monday at Oregon Public Broadcasting may have disappointed a lot of people, but ...UPDATE: WMFE-TV holding out for more lucrative offer
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that the sale of WMFE-TV in Orlando, in the works for more than a year, has been canceled. “Due ...Kartemquin Films asks indie fans to protest PBS’s move of shows
Kartemquin Films, a nonprofit Chicago production company that’s home to such films as The Interrupters and Hoop Dreams, is asking independent filmmakers and pubmedia fans to ...Marketplace reporter uncovers fabrications in TAL broadcast on Apple factory
This American Life retracted “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” its Jan. 6 broadcast that adapted theater monologist Mike Daisey’s stage play ...“Women, War and Peace” recognized as “Television with a Conscience”
The PBS miniseries Women, War and Peace is one of seven programs receiving Television Academy Honors. The awards were established by the Academy of ...CHECK ON LATER
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/matc-board-shakeup-could-jeopardize-license-for-public-tv-0m4jfnr-142894555.htmlThe entire membership of the MATC Board would turn over almost immediately under the proposal, a move that would jeopardize MATC’s ...Thirteen’s Celebration of Teaching & Learning starts today
WNET/Thirteen’s two-day Celebration of Teaching & Learning kicks off today (March 16) in New York City. Some 10,000 educators are expected to ...“Saddle Up” host convicted of fraudulent practices, acquitted of two other charges
Dennis Brouse, host of the pubTV show Saddle Up with Dennis Brouse, was convicted of fraudulent practices in Polk County, Iowa, on Thursday (March ...Marfa Public Radio plans new service for Odessa
John Barth, managing director of the Public Radio Exchange, dropped in on Marfa Public Radio in Marfa, Texas, and wrote an account ...AJR looks at Kinsey Wilson, NPR’s new content chief
American Journalism Review profiles Kinsey Wilson, NPR’s first chief content officer. In his position, Wilson oversees the distribution of all of NPR’s content through ...
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