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Project VoiceScape presents teenage filmmakers with grants
Fifteen projects by 22 teenage filmmakers will receive grants through Project VoiceScape, a collaboration between Adobe Youth Voices and P.O.V., public TV’s ...Alicia Shepard signs off as NPR Ombudsman
In her last column as NPR Ombudsman, Alicia Shepard credited NPR for demonstrating a commitment to transparency and accountability by employing a ...Vivian Schiller may be headed to NBC
NBC News reportedly plans to hire former NPR President Vivian Schiller to lead its digital division. “People familiar with the company say ...Kling still on track to raise $5 million for pubradio reporters
After Bill Kling retires on July 1 from atop Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media in St. Paul, he “plans to ...WTVI’s survivial in danger if it keeps “bleeding money,” its president says
WTVI, the PBS affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., is asking Mecklenburg County commissioners to restore a total of $1 million in funding that ...Newscaster Ann Taylor leaving NPR on June 30 after 21 years
Ann Taylor, the bottom-of-the-hour news voice on NPR’s All Things Considered, is leaving after 21 years with the network. In a memo to staff, ...Frontline website returns; e.p. Fanning calls hack “disappointing and irresponsible”
Frontline’s website is back up after being hit by hackers over the weekend. The group Lulz Boat claimed responsibility on its Twitter account Sunday ...Illinois Public Media continues search for station manager, hires development director
Kate Dobrovolny, former station manager at WILL-AM-FM-TV in Champaign, Ill., who retired in April after 31 years at the station, is spending ...WFUV’s Alternate Side gains drive-time slot on city-owned WNYE
The Alternate Side, an HD Radio channel and online stream programmed by New York contemporary music station WFUV-FM, is expanding its broadcast ...Kerger: Aging is all about “testing the boundaries”
PBS President Paula Kerger, 53, is one of several women (including a 74-year-old bodybuilder!) featured in the Washington Post Magazine’s May 29 cover story ...Ibargüen on PBS break proposal: “It’s too bad”
Reaction continues regarding PBS’s upcoming experiment to interrupt programming four times an hour for underwriting or promotional spots. In a New York Times story ...PBS web pages hacked; group claims attack in response to “Frontline” on Wikileaks
Hackers attacked the PBS website late Sunday (May 29), posting a story on the PBS NewsHour page that dead rapper Tupac Shakur was “alive and ...Management of New Jersey TV Network going to WNET/Thirteen in deal this week
New Jersey officials are finalizing a deal to allow WNET/Thirteen in New York City to run the New Jersey Network’s television operation, the Star-Ledger is ...Massachusetts town one of many forming nonprofits to run cable access channels
Franklin, Mass., is creating a nonprofit to run the town’s public access channels, reports the local Milford Daily News today (May 29). The town’s ...
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