Quick Takes
Jon McTaggart steps into c.e.o role at American Public Media
Jon McTaggart, chief operating officer of American Public Media Group, parent company of Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media. will take ...Sussman promoted to oversee “PRI’s The World”
Andrew Sussman is the new executive producer of PRI’s The World, Public Radio International announced today (April 20). He’ll supervise all on-air and online ...Sell overlap stations to fund pubaffairs service built around NewsHour, Minow writes
Better funding to public television and radio is one of Newton Minow’s six goals for the next 50 years in American telecommunications. ...Lynn Allen dies; Idaho public broadcaster, Community Cinema pioneer
Lynn Allen of Boise, Idaho, a former longtime employee of Idaho Public Television, died unexpectedly March 28 on vacation in Mexico, after ...Sale of Houston’s KTRU clears FCC
The FCC rejected a petition to block the license transfer of Rice University’s student-operated radio station KTRU-FM, clearing the way for the ...Washington University gets $550,000 grant to preserve “Eyes on the Prize”
The original Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, the critically acclaimed 1987 documentary on PBS, will be preserved with a $550,000 ...ProPublica’s Pulitizer-winning financial coverage has public radio roots
ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein, reporters who collaborated with This American Life and NPR’s “Planet Money” to report on the 2008 ...Deal for Pittsburgh’s WDUQ: It’s not done yet
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the sale of WDUQ in Pittsburgh was delayed after negotiations over the asset purchase agreement extended beyond ...Local orientation in news/talk reaps audience gains for WGBH-FM
Since launching an NPR news and local talk format on WGBH 89.7 FM in late 2009, the pubcaster has gained listenership at ...Father of South Dakota Public Broadcasting dies at 89
Martin Busch, the “father of South Dakota Public Broadcasting,” died April 15 at his home in Atchison, Kan. He was 89. Busch ...So much for “Something Different with Bill Moyers”
After PBS declined to designate the proposed show Something Different with Bill Moyers (w.t.) for common carriage, Moyers has withdrawn the program, ...Bill on New Hampshire pubTV’s state aid ruled “inexpedient”
Legislation to end state funding for New Hampshire Public Television got a thumbs-down recommendation from the Senate Finance Committee on April 13, ...Growing Bolder — and looking for a presenting station
The impending sale of WMFE-TV in Orlando to religious broadcaster Daystar leaves Growing Bolder without a presenting station. It’s WMFE’s only local production, shining ...Ken Burns, on why he “wakes up the dead”
What drives PBS documentarian Ken Burns to poke at history’s ghosts? In a revealing, low-key interview in the current New York magazine, he reveals ...Andy Carvin’s relentless tweets as “another flavor of journalism”
There isn’t really a name for what Andy Carvin does, writes Paul Farhi in this Washington Post feature story on NPR’s social ...
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