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Nonprofit news site Bay Citizen loses c.e.o, one month after editor’s departure
Lisa Frazier, c.e.o. of The Bay Citizen nonprofit news website, has announced that she is leaving for personal reasons. This follows Bay Citizen Editor Jonathan Weber’s ...Simeone to stay on as “World of Opera” host, WDAV to distribute show
NPR is dropping distribution of World of Opera as of Nov. 11. The new distributor will be WDAV Classical Public Radio in Charlotte, N.C., ...Maine Public Broadcasting discontinues its on-air auction after four decades
After 40 years, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network is ending its MPBN Great TV Auction, reports the Maine Sunday Telegram. Lou Morin, director of ...Knight report points to strategies for sustaining nonprofit news start-ups
A new Knight Foundation report provides details on locally focused nonprofit news websites and their progress in engaging web audiences, building revenues ...All the NETA excitement, now online
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Couldn’t attend the NETA conference this week? Here’s a handy recap in video, photos and reports.Maine Public Broadcasting shatters one-day radio pledge record
Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Super Thursday” one-day pledge drive raised $252,719 from 2,866 donors today (Oct. 20), more than doubling its previous ...NETA recognizes best of public TV with annual awards
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — First-time NETA Award winner KRSC/RSU-Television in Claremore, Okla., was also a double winner for its Will Rogers & American Politics, ...Simeone’s activism prompts inquiry into ethical standards for pubradio freelancers
Public radio is once again struggling to define the line between on-air talent who report as ethically bound journalists and those personalities ...PBS Food opens its online doors; PBS Distribution expands deal with Amazon.com
PBS today announced two online initiatives, one a new website, another an expanded content agreement with Amazon.com. It’s launch day for PBS ...WTTW adding Al Jazeera English content
WTTW is picking up Al Jazeera English programming beginning Oct. 31, the first time the news provider will be seen on the ...First pledge drive for Pittsburgh’s WESA seen as key indicator of listener support
Pittsburgh’s WESA is making its first fundraising appeal to listeners since the station changed format and call letters under new owner Essential ...“Antiques Roadshow” companion program coming in spring 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Public TV broadcasters got some tantalizing details on the long-awaited spinoff of the hit Antiques Roadshow. John Wilson, PBS program ...Butler at NETA: Federal pubcasting funding a lifeline, not a yoke
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Butler, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, told attendees at the National Educational Telecommunications Association ...City leaders look for new financial lifeline for Salt Lake’s KCPW
There’s been another setback for KCPW in Salt Lake City, the NPR News station that’s struggling to pay off a $250,000 private ...Board asks Pacifica’s WBAI-FM to reduce fundraising days by 40 percent
The board of WBAI-FM/Pacifica Radio in New York City has passed a resolution that the station must drop the number of on-air ...
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