Quick Takes
Good reason to give thanks: NewsHour’s TSA Time page
Traveling for Turkey Day? Check out PBS NewsHour’s handy TSA Time page, which organizes Tweets by airport. This from O’Hare in Chicago: “OHare super ...Let’s hope there are cookies in the Green Room . . .
Cookie Monster wants to host Saturday Night Live. (Hey, if octogenarian Betty White can do it . . .) Want to help? Watch Sesame Street’s latest ...PBS’s Reddington shifts from Online Giving Initiative to PBS Foundation work
Brian Reddington, senior v.p., development, has moved from supervision of its Online Giving Initiative to focus solely on the PBS Foundation, Michael ...PBS selects new director of station development services
PBS has hired a director of station development services to plug the hole created in June when laid off four staffers in ...Feder departing Vocalo; another columnist calls its future “uncertain”
Robert Feder, longtime Chicago media columnist, is departing Chicago Public Media and its Vocalo blog. He said in a post today (Nov. ...WFMT-FM breaks record with fall pledge drive
Chicago’s WFMT-FM (98.7) set a record with fall pledge, bringing in $695,000, General Manager Steve Robinson said in a Sun-Times story today (Nov. ...Hiki Nō student news project finalizes funding
Hiki Nō, PBS Hawaii’s new and innovative student news network, has secured the funding it needs and will launch in February 2011, ...Smiley says it’s “unconscionable” he didn’t know about producing partner KCET’s plans to depart PBS
Tavis Smiley said “it’s unthinkable, it’s untenable, it’s unacceptable,” that KCET execs didn’t let him know that they were breaking from PBS ...Documentaries on PBS short-listed for Oscar nominations
Three PBS documentaries are on the short list for Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced. “Genius Within: ...Fight over NPR funding: is it a “culture war,” or principled debate?
What’s really at stake in the battle over federal funding to NPR, and how can the field’s advocates make the best case ...Pubstations need simple apps, too
Public media needs coding collaborators. That’s what pubcaster Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices writes in today’s (Nov. 22) Hacks/Hackers blog. Large pubradio stations have ...New NBR owner agreed to leave instructional content field in 2000, New York Times reports
In a followup to a Current investigation (Aug. 23 and Sept. 7), the New York Times reports today (Nov. 22) that Mykalai Kontilai, the new ...A look back over a tough week for NPR
The Week, a digest newsmag, has a good gathering of links to last week’s coverage of the ongoing attacks on NPR and its government funding. One ...NJN’s future must move beyond traditional TV, group hears
A group of 40 New Jersey officials and pubcasting leaders met for more than eight hours Friday (Nov. 19) to hear advice ...WBUR’s La Camera stepping down as g.m.
WBUR General Manager Paul La Camera is departing his post at the end of the year, he told the staff at a station meeting today ...
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