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PBS Kids Go! gets $250,000 from Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
The PBS Foundation last week received a $250,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to support PBS Kids Go! interactive content. ...Half of nonprofit news start-ups produce biased coverage
A survey of the emerging field of nonprofit news organizations found that roughly half produced coverage that was ideological in nature. The ...Mexico undergoing massive pubcasting expansion
Mexico is planning a $45.5 million boost to public broadcasting, to rough triple national coverage from 2010 to 2012, Variety reports. That initial ...Jim Lewis honored for contributions to pubradio development
DEI honored veteran fundraiser Jim Lewis with its President’s Award, presented at the discretion of DEI chief Doug Eichten for outstanding contributions ...V-me to premiere interactive weekly gaming show
Spanish-language pubTV multicaster V-me premieres an interactive weekly show for gamers, GAME40, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern July 22. V-me said in a July ...Pittsburgh news start-up wins CPB aid
CPB is backing development of Essential Public Media, the nonprofit whose purchase of Pittsburgh’s WDUQ is pending before the FCC. CPB President ...PBS eliminating 21 positions, Kerger tells stations
PBS is eliminating 13 current staff positions and eight vacancies, PBS President Paula Kerger said in a letter to the system today ...FCC approves rules proposal on low-power FM stations
The Federal Communications Commission is getting closer to creating new low-power FM stations and approving rebroadcasting programming from other stations, according to ...Telluride’s KOTO could begin accepting underwriting
KOTO, broadcasting to Telluride, Colo., and surrounding environs from its purple house on Pine Street, is really feeling a financial pinch — ...Ramer makes Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyers list
Bruce Ramer, board chairman for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has been selected by the Hollywood Reporter as one of its Power Lawyers for ...Mississippi Public Broadcasting selects newspaper editor as new director
Ronnie Agnew, executive editor of the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., for nearly a decade, is the new head of Mississippi Public Broadcasting, the ...David Axelrod calls Juan Williams’ new book “well worth reading”
Former NPR news analyst Juan Williams’ book hits stores next week. Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate chronicles the months after he said on ...PBS SoCal breaks ground for new production headquarters in Costa Mesa
PBS SoCal, the primary network affiliate in Los Angeles since the departure of KCET in January, broke ground July 7 on a ...DEI unveils iPhone app for PMDMC confab
The latest iPhone app release for public media is tailor-made for attendees of this week’s Public Media Development and Marketing conference in ...Financial outlook dims for indies in public media
Independent journalists in public media are having an increasingly tough time earning a living as producers for public TV and radio, according ...
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