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NPR is suspending its search for a senior vice president for news until it hires a permanent c.e.o., according to an email ...NPR runs Frontline reporting segment on WikiLeak soldier
Frontline today (March 29) provided NPR’s Morning Edition portions of its reporting on the private life of Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the soldier who ...Ken Burns, Lynn Novick working on major Vietnam series for PBS
PBS today (March 28) announced that documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick will produce and direct a 10- to 12-hour series about ...South Carolina ETV educating all-new pubcasting commission
New South Carolina ETV President Linda O’Bryon (formerly of KQED and Nightly Business Report) tells the Anderson Independent Mail that she’s simultaneously working to develop ETV’s ...KPCC trying techniques “rarely employed” in pubradio to double audience
Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that Southern California Public Radio executives are using business tactics “rarely employed in the tame world of local public radio ...Vivian Schiller says she’ll stay in journalism; “I’m not done yet”
The International Women’s Media Foundation has posted its exclusive interview with former NPR President Vivian Schiller, reportedly her first in-depth public discussion ...Los Angeles area station collaboration efforts to get governance expert from CPB
CPB is looking for a governance expert for the collaboration/merger work taking place among Los Angeles-area stations PBS SoCal/KOCE, KVCR and KLCS (Current, ...OPB announcer dies in head-on collision on interstate
Heidi Tauber Esping, 52, an Oregon Public Broadcasting announcer, died in a head-on collision on Wednesday (March 23) night on Interstate 405, ...Democratic unity in the House on NPR bill sends strong signal, analyst says
Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University, has good news for NPR in Wednesday’s (March 23) The Hill. The fact that all 185 ...Annenberg’s Neon Tommy reflects “new reality” for journalists, LA Times says
“A generation ago,” notes Los Angeles Times media columnist James Rainey, “journalists wrote their stories and moved on to the next thing, with someone ...Former KNME associate g.m. files suit alleging her firing was tied to whistleblowing
Joanne Bachmann, former associate general manager at KNME in Albuquerque, N.M., has filed suit against the University of New Mexico, claiming she ...New distribution path for “American Routes”
American Routes, the New Orleans-based public radio music series hosted and produced by Nick Spitzer, is moving from American Public Media to ...What happens with financial returns from pubradio’s biggest shows?
As discussions of public radio’s federal funding continue, AOL’s DailyFinanceblog looks at the finances and talent compensation for top national shows such ...Inskeep: NPR News isn’t biased, it’s “honest and honorable”
It’s not his job to address questions about federal funding of public radio, but Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep takes on complaints ...
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