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Kernis joins start-up team for NBC’s primetime newsmag
Jay Kernis’s vacation from the TV news business lasted less than two weeks.The former NPR programming exec has joined an NBC News ...PBS SoCal boosts kids’ programming weekdays, adds weekends
PBS SoCal, formerly KOCE-TV, is ramping up its kids offerings, reports the Los Angeles Times. The station, which took over as PBS primary in ...Broadcasters asking for another delay on new EAS equipment deadline
NPR, PBS and the Association of Public Television Stations are among broadcast organizations asking the Federal Communications Commission to once again extend ...PBS hires two new — but well known — programming veeps
Two names familiar to public broadcasters are coming to PBS as new vice presidents of programming. Beth Hoppe, who begins work Aug. ...170 Million Americans campaign offers exclusive music download
170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting and ANTI- Records are releasing “Raise Your Voice!,” a 16-track music compilation free only to pubcasting ...Native Public Media’s Morris appointed to FCC advisory committee
Traci Morris, director of operations for Native Public Media (NPM) will represent tribal interests on the Federal Communications Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee. ...Julia Child helped change face of public TV, friend writes
Jasper White, a chef and longtime close friend of pubcasting icon Julia Child, has a nice remembrance of her in the Herald News of ...$40 million in NEH grants include public broadcasters
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced $40 million in awards for 249 projects. Several public media recipients include the American Routes radio ...Social media taking a toll on arts journalism, panelists say
While much focus remains on the dropoff of investigative and local reporting, arts reporting and criticism is also in flux. “Arts journalism ...Redefining objectivity in journalism: it has to be much more than “just the facts”
As new forms of journalism take root in the rapidly evolving digital media landscape, standards for objectivity in reporting must evolve too, ...South Carolina ETV lays off 15, and won’t fill six open positions
South Carolina’s ETV, which operates statewide public TV and radio networks, is shedding a total of 21 full-time and two part-time positions ...For independent news entities, community engagement is vital, Knight adviser says
In an interview for an upcoming “Empowering Independent Media” report update, Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president of the Knight Foundation, ...Nearly 60-year-old Backyard Farmer show grows fans online
At 58 years and counting, the Backyard Farmer gardening show from Nebraska’s NET may be the longest-running locally produced show on television. And now ...Public radio experiments with visuals
Visual storytelling “may seem anathema to the magic of radio,” writes Amanda Hirsch for the iMA Innovators Blog, but some public ...FOCAS gathering at Aspen Institute examining impact of tech on citizenship
PBS President Paula Kerger, American Public Media’s digital innovation s.v.p. Joaquin Alvarado and WNET President Neal Shapiro are among media leaders participating ...
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