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Mississippi Public Broadcasting honored for Freedom Ride interstitials
An informative series of 40 interstitials on the Freedom Riders has won Mississippi Public Broadcasting and its Assistant Director of Production Edie ...Bay Area nonprofit news organizations discussing merger
Two prominent nonprofit news organizations, The Bay Citizen, based in San Francisco, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, based in nearby Berkeley, ...WTVI-TV in Charlotte could partner with local community college
Community licensee WTVI-TV in Charlotte, N.C., is in early merger talks with Central Piedmont Community College to keep the pubcaster on the ...“Marketplace,” KQED spanked for phony commentary by war veteran
Marketplace retracted a commentary by Leo Webb, an Occupy Oakland protester who described himself as an Iraqi War veteran struggling to recover ...Hinojosa, WBEZ’s Mitchell to receive Studs Terkel awards
Two pubradio broadcasters are among this year’s recipients of the Studs Terkel Community Media Awards, reports Robert Feder, media writer for Time ...Governor proposes ending state funding to Rhode Island PBS
David Piccerelli, president of Rhode Island PBS, said he was shocked to learn of Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s proposal to eliminate state funding ...NPR launches new page on Facebook
“This is NPR,” a new Facebook page, provides a peek behind the scenes at its people, headquarters and stations nationwide. There are ...The moment is right … for these ads
Pubradio WTMD at Towson University in Maryland has a unique new ad campaign that came into being after “a crazy night of ...“Financial Fitness” creator leaves WCNY in dispute; two new hosts announced
WCNY-TV in Syracuse today (Feb. 1) announced two new hosts for its longest-running local show, Financial Fitness, while the local Post-Standard is reporting that host ...@readingrainbow goes to one very worthy Tweeter
LeVar Burton, former longtime host of pubTV’s popular Reading Rainbow, has claimed @readingrainbow, reports Huffington Post, with a little help from fellow Tweeters. On ...Peter and Carl, a la Lego
Just in case you missed it, here is a photo of Lego versions of Carl Kasell and Peter Sagal of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! ...Six Goldsmith finalists include two public media projects
Two public media projects are among six finalists for the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, presented annually by the Joan Shorenstein ...Eben Peck leaves CPB for American Society of Travel Agents
Eben Peck, on the staff of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the past seven years, most recently as senior director of ...Counting down to the “Downton” finale
Egad! The two-hour final episode of Season 2 of the Masterpiece megahit Downton Abbey looms, on Feb. 19. No more Crawley family and staff intrigue ...WDFH-FM in New York’s Hudson Valley faces “financial emergency”
A signal expansion in the lower Hudson Valley three years ago depleted WDFH-FM’s cash reserves and now the Ossining, N.Y., community radio ...
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