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The “Life on Earth” guy gets a life award for his work
Sir David Attenborough, the 85-year-old naturalist and BBC star who created Life on Earth, The Life of Birds and other nature docs on PBS ...Civil discourse essential to democracy, documentarian Ken Burns says
PBS filmmaker Ken Burns will call for a nationwide discourse on civility at a National Press Club Speakers Series luncheon on Oct. ...Iowa City’s PEG channel joins nationwide fight to keep public access funding
Iowa City’s public access channel, PATV Channel 18, has joined the Alliance for Community Media to gain support of Iowa lawmakers for ...Former employee sues Lidia’s Italy host
Lidia Bastianich, whose latest public television series, Lidia’s Italy in America, premieres Sept. 10, is being sued by an Italian cook who alleges that ...Keno brothers depart Antiques Roadshow for their own program on Fox
Twin brothers Leigh and Leslie Keno, known for their appraisal work since 1997 on the pubcasting hit Antiques Roadshow, premiere their own program, Buried Treasure, Aug. ...Former pubcaster is winging it with new barbecue franchise
Bob Friedman, a Nightly Business Report correspondent back in the 1980s, left pubcasting for a life in … barbecue. And it turns out he’s ...Public Insight Network wants to connect with conservative voters
The Public Insight Network, a reporting tool from American Public Media that invites audience members to volunteer as sources, wants to increase ...Up to 10 staffers laid off at WKAR in East Lansing, Mich.
The local City Pulse in Lansing, Mich., is reporting that sources say as many as 10 staffers have been laid off from WKAR at ...KET announces move to street-side studio facilities in downtown Louisville
KET in Louisville is consolidating its facilities into one downtown production center, it announced today (Aug. 18). The new space on Main ...PRX plots expansion for its crowd-funding pilot
Story Exchange, a crowd-funding experiment piloted by Public Radio Exchange and Louisville Public Media, has garnered full funding for two long-form reporting ...Storyteller Kevin Kling begins three-year residency at MPR; could APHC be next?
Humorist, author and playwright Kevin Kling has signed on for a three-year residency with Minnesota Public Radio, the network announced Wednesday (Aug. ...Memorial service planned for Shirley Gillette, formerly of WNET
Shirley Gillette, who worked for more than two decades at New York’s WNET, died July 26 at her home atop Schooley’s Mountain ...Rhode Island Public Radio hoping to finalize lease swap by October
Rhode Island Public Radio is working on a three-way lease swap. WRNI currently broadcasts on 1290 AM in Providence and 102.7 FM ...Knight religion reporting grants go to several public broadcasters
Public broadcasters are among journalists receiving grants from the Knight Foundation as part of its Reporting on Religion and American Public Life ...Outlook now sunny for outspoken pubradio weatherman in Puget Sound
Cliff Mass, the colorful local weather guy whose non-weather opinions got him booted off Seattle’s news channel KUOW in May, soon will ...
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