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P.O.V. and Adobe join to help young filmmakers create digital media docs
The Adobe Foundation’s Adobe Youth Voices and the documentary series P.O.V. today (Dec. 3) launched Project VoiceScape, to fund middle- and high-school ...Show on Burma’s possible nuclear bomb sparks controversy, PBS ombudsman writes
An investigation over Burma’s supposed work on a nuclear weapon by Need to Know and ProPublica has led to a “quiet explosion and some ...Interference could interfere with FCC aim to boost VHF signals
The Federal Communication Commission’s plan to create space for more wireless devices on the spectrum includes tactics to improve the quality of ...Full deficit panel to vote Friday on recommended cuts, which could include CPB
The final co-chairs’ report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform awaits a full-panel vote Friday (Dec. 3). Although CPB ...Hiring spree at Fox News is “a way to play the culture wars”
Former NPR reporter and analyst Juan Williams is neither the first nor last news personality to land a lucrative gig at Fox ...Two ITVS films make it to Sundance; Elmo, too
The Sundance Institute on Wednesday (Dec. 1) revealed the lineup of competition for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in January. Two ITVS-funded ...Radiolab, poised “right at the edge of what science can tell you”
“This show is a conversation between science and mystery,” says Jad Abumrad, host and producer of Radiolab, in a New York Observer ...Hannity and guests debate NPR funding
Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity devoted six minutes of his Nov. 29 Fox News show to congressional Republicans’ pledge to defund ...Diversity and Innovation Fund announces first 16 program finalists
PBS has revealed the finalists of this year’s CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund (Current, April 19) request for proposals. More than 200 submissions ...KCET among nine stations receiving membership challenge grants from Newman’s Own Foundation
KCET, the Los Angeles pubTV station dropping its PBS membership as of January, is one of nine station recipients, along with the ...Top GOP House Appropriations member hopes to gain helm, cites CPB for elimination
A Republican Congressman hoping to keep his key committee chairmanship is citing CPB as an example of what funding he would cut, ...Op-ed writers see “fake populism” in campaign to defund NPR
In a Nov. 23 online op-ed and analysis for the Guardian, media blogger and j-school professor Dan Kennedy describes the political campaign to ...FCC officially starts process to clear TV spectrum
The FCC today (Nov. 30) unanimously approved a three-part rulemaking to begin to free up TV spectrum for wireless devices, TVNewsCheck is ...CPB’s 2011 business plan continues to back mergers and consolidations
The CPB Board’s 2011 business plan, now online (PDF), was approved during its meeting Nov. 15 and 16 in New Orleans. CPB’s ...FCC extends Emergency Alert System deadline
The FCC has extended the deadline for complying with new Emergency Alert System rules, reports Television Broadcast today (Nov. 24). The new ...
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