Quick Takes
MPR’s “Music Through the Night” host Arthur Hoehn dies at 72
Arthur Hoehn, Minnesota Public Radio’s first professional announcer, died Saturday (March 12) after a battle with lung cancer, MPR reports. He was ...Cap Hill hearing to focus on funding alternatives for pubcasting
The Labor/HHS subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, which oversees CPB’s outlay, has scheduled a hearing on “Alternative Approaches to Funding ...As NPR sputters, Kling points to problem under the hood
Minnesota Public Radio President Bill Kling attributes the turbulence at NPR to its old-fashioned governance structure in today’s New York Times. “NPR ...Pubmedia “not capitalized nor organized” to fully benefit from digital media, Bole says
Rob Bole, CPB’s veep of digital media strategy, says on the Media Future Now website that public broadcasting isn’t yet making sufficient ...Newton Minow calls attacks on pubcasting funding “idealogically based”
Nell Minow, a corporate governance expert, today (March 14) blogged a chat she had with her father, pubcasting pioneer Newton Minow, about ...WGBH helping build online TV news archive of Boston programming
Boston public broadcaster WGBH’s Media Library and Archives is partnering with the Boston Public Library, Cambridge Community TV and Northeast Historic Film ...Experts lay out deceptive edits, dubious ethics behind NPR sting video
Was the 11-minute NPR sting video that blasted through the mediasphere on March 8 edited in a deceptive way? Two different analyses ...Press conference in support of pubcasting set for Tuesday on Cap Hill
A “Press Conference to Defend, Not Defund, Public Media” kicks off at 1 p.m. Tuesday (March 15) on Capitol Hill, sponsored by ...Lamborn aide says redrafted NPR bill vote could be Thursday
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) is working with the House GOP leadership office to redraft H.R. 69, which currently targets NPR program funding. ...December pledge down but March looking strong, PBS says
PBS says stations raised $32 million in the last pledge period in December, down 8 percent on average from a year ago, ...State of the News Media: Tech advances add “new layers of complexity” for industry
The State of the News Media 2011 from the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism was released this morning (March 14). “The ...Kirby working to turn around PBS station KTXT in Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech’s KTXT/Channel 5 in Lubbock “has been the absolutely worst-managed television station in America for the past 50 years,” John Kirby tells ...Knight funding development of open-source platform for nonprofit news sites
The Texas Tribune in Austin and the Bay Citizen in San Francisco, nonprofit online regional news organizations, will share a $975,000 Knight ...Northwest pubcasting network hires former CBS News bureau chief as news director
Former CBS News London Bureau Chief John Paxson has joined Murrow Public Media/Northwest Public Radio and Northwest Public Television, in the new ...Pubcasting station KBEM wins jazz educator award
The Jane Matteson Outstanding Jazz Educator Award, presented annually by the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education in Minneapolis, Minn., generally honors an individual. But the 2011 ...
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