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Vivian Schiller resigns as NPR president
Vivian Schiller has resigned as NPR president, the news organization has just announced. Her departure, effective immediately, follows yesterday’s release of a ...Rep. Lamborn reacts to NPR sting video
Rep. Doug Lamborn, the Colorado Republican who has authored several bills to defund public broadcasting, tells the Washington Examiner that he’s “amazed ...GOP members of Congress will help save pubcasting, APTS Butler says
APTS President Patrick Butler told The Hill today (March 8) that GOP members of Congress are signaling support for continued public broadcasting funding. “Republicans ...Washington Times says station funding advocacy efforts are breaking laws
The conservative Washington Times says that “lawmakers and conservative critics” insist public broadcasting stations are breaking two laws with their spots alerting viewers and ...NPR says it refused donation from phony foundation
NPR issued this brief statement on the video sting released today by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe: “The fraudulent organization represented in this video ...KUNC music director jumps 42 stories to his death in Denver
Kyle Dyas, the popular music director and on-air personality at KUNC-FM in Greeley, Colo., jumped to his death from atop the 42-story ...NPR’s Ron Schiller caught in video sting
A covertly recorded video of NPR Foundation President Ron Schiller meeting with prospective donors was released by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe this ...Ron Schiller exiting NPR for Aspen Institute
NPR Foundation President Ron Schiller has taken a new job as director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program and Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence Program. ...WNET hopes for $40,000 for guitar autographed by Keith Richards
WNET/Thirteen has a unique fundraising offer: A guitar autographed by Rolling Stones legendary musician Keith Richards. “To show his personal support of ...Watch Schiller’s speech to National Press Club at 1 p.m. today
UPDATE: Text of the speech is online here. NPR President Vivian Schiller’s speech to the National Press Club is being live-streamed here starting ...APTS’ Butler calls effort to defund CPB a “mortal threat”
Patrick Butler, president of the Association of Public Television Stations advocacy group, calls the Congressional attempts to de-fund CPB a “mortal threat” ...Give pubcasting three more years of funding to migrate to Internet-only, digital wonk says
Shelly Palmer, host of NBC’s Live Digital with Shelly Palmer, a weekly half-hour show about living and working in a digital world, writes on ...Nonprofit DFM News gets funding infusion
The nonprofit DFM News, launched in June, last week received a big (but undisclosed) funding boost from a major and ongoing sponsorship from ...CPB’s investment so far in reporting initiatives: $90 million
In the past three years, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has invested more than $90 million in federal funds on new journalism ...Classical WSMR in Sarasota still experiencing signal problems
Tampa-based WUSF bought WSMR for $1.2 million last year to shift its classical music to the Sarasota station and offer daytime NPR ...
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