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Small Texas pubradio station takes on coverage of huge wildfires
Tiny Marfa Public Radio — KRTS/93.5 FM in far west Texas — has “earned its spurs,” writes Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy, ...Sutton sees pubradio’s diversity problem as a failure of leadership
There’s “a lot of truth” in Sue Schardt’s recent speech about the lack of diversity in public radio, writes John Sutton, Maryland-based ...PBS to start testing next-gen Emergency Alert System
PBS announced at the NAB Show in Las Vegas today (April 12) that later this year it will begin testing a next-generation ...Budget agreement cuts three CPB funds, leaves NPR intact
As expected, CPB lost digital funding, recession aid to stations and radio interconnection money in the budget agreement for the remainder of ...Frontline creates managing editor role for former Washington Post newsman
Philip Bennett, a former Washington Post managing editor and current Duke University journalism professor, is joining Frontline in the new role of managing ...Little hope of increased revenues for pubcasting system, early report data shows
Initial findings of a CPB-funded study on the potential impact of the reduction or loss of federal funding to the system anticipate further ...Practical rift among journalists of color
The National Association of Black Journalists decided over the weekend to pull out of next year’s panethnic Unity: Journalists of Color conference, ...Blogger admonishes KUHF chief over “reckless” Facebook postings
The Houston Press hit KUHF President John Proffitt for H.L. Mencken quotes he posted on his Facebook page. The quotes — “Nobody ever ...Huffington challenges grantmakers to help revitalize local news with AOL’s Patch network
Arianna Huffington, head of AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group, opened the second day of the Council on Foundations annual conference in Philadelphia ...WGBH to establish private trusts backing more of its programs
During a weekend symposium on non-profit investigative news, WGBH production chief Margaret Drain described how PBS’s top producing station plans to fund ...KPCC-FM programmer sparks controversy by halting Planned Parenthood spots
KPCC-FM’s decision to pull Planned Parenthood spots last Friday is attracting criticism. Programmer Craig Curtis sent a memo that day to staff that ...NPR funding survives in 2011 budget; GOP had insisted on cut during negotiations
A Republican provision to cut all federal funding to NPR was dropped in Friday’s (April 8) late-night deal on the fiscal 2011 ...Man pleads guilty to death threats against ATC hosts
A man accused of threatening to kill two All Things Considered hosts has agreed to plead guilty to the charges, the Associated Press is ...Pelosi stresses pubmedia support at Boston conference
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent an unequivocal message of support for public media to a crowd of some 2,000 participants ...IRE salutes CPI’s global investigations, ProPublica, NPR News
Investigative Reporters and Editors presented a 2010 IRE Medal, the top prize in its annual journalism competition, to a reporting collaboration between ...
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