Quick Takes
Casual visitors important even to top news websites, Pew discovers
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism today (May 9) released an in-depth study of Web news behavior, using detailed ...Incoming journalists reflect on becoming reporters in the digital age
A group of young journalists finishing their studies at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism today (May 9) launch FastForwardNews.org, a collection ...APTS, DEI get more than $920,000 from CPB to expand Grant Center
The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) and DEI (Development Exchange Inc.) have received a $923,310, two-year CPB grant to expand their ...Organic food advocates link “Marketplace” story to agribusiness sponsor
The Organic Consumers Association, an advocacy group that campaigns on food safety and agricultural sustainability issues, launched an online campaign objecting to ...ITVS, CPB, PBS partner for Women and Girls Lead campaign
The Independent Television Service (ITVS), CPB and PBS announced today (May 9) the Women and Girls Lead initiative, a multi-year engagement campaign ...Former CPB Board Chairman Howard Gutin dies at 80
Army Lt. Col. Howard Gutin, Ret., a former board chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Texas public broadcaster, died April ...Rinzel to oversee digital content at WQXR
Michael Rinzel is the new director of digital content at Classical 105.9 FM WQXR in New York City. Rinzel will oversee the ...Minow pays tribute to WTTW’s McCarter at memorial service
Friends and colleagues of the late Bill McCarter filled Kenilworth Union Church in the Chicago suburb “to hear tributes to the man ...Word wonks rejoice, Media Cloud is back
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched its new-and-improved Media Cloud. According to the site, it’s “an open source, open ...PBS Hawaii welcomes new staffers
PBS Hawaii has hired two new staff members. Jared Kuroiwa is vice president of digital networking. He is a broadcast engineer with ...StoryCorps unveils new animated short
In the run-up to Mother’s Day, StoryCorps released its latest heart-warming animated short. “No More Questions!” — featuring a strong-willed grandmother ...Bipartisan bill would require cable operators to fund, carry PEG channels
U.S. Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) have jointly introduced the Community Access Preservation Act (H.R. 1746), which would put ...Former Florida congressman advises residents to protest upcoming sale of WMFE-TV
Former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson is urging Florida residents to complain to the Federal Communications Commission regarding the upcoming sale of WMFE-TV, ...Cleveland’s WCLV becomes latest classical FM to shift to pubcasting ownership
Under a license transfer agreement announced this week, Cleveland’s commercial classical music station WCLV will become a subsidiary of ideastream, the Northern ...Vermont Public Radio’s Will Curtis dies; voice of “The Nature of Things”
Will Curtis, former voice of The Nature of Things on Vermont Public Radio, one of the first pubradio programs to address environmental concerns, died ...
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