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More than 100 NJN staffers receive layoff notices, but could survive cuts
The Associated Press is reporting that 130 employees of the New Jersey Network received 45-day layoff notices Tuesday (Nov. 16) as the ...Friday webinar on Public Media Innovation work
CPB’s Public Media Innovation (PMI) fund is the topic of Friday’s (Nov. 19) webinar sponsored by the National Center for Media Engagement. ...CPB Board resolution cites its “deep concerns” regarding NPR firing of Juan Williams
CPB’s Board of Directors at its meeting today (Nov. 16) in New Orleans approved a resolution expressing its “deep concerns about the ...CPB Board chooses Ramer as chair, Pryor as vice-chair
At its meeting in New Orleans today (Nov. 16), the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting elected Bruce Ramer (left) as ...Gov. Barbour proposes end to state aid for Mississippi’s MPB
Two-term Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour called for an end to state subsidies for Mississippi Public Broadcasting in a $5.5 billion fiscal 2012 ...FCC chair says current spectrum allocations “still reflect previous era”
“The world has changed, but our spectrum allocations still reflect the previous era,” said Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski Monday (Nov. ...Fey’s remarks on conservative women edited from Twain show, paper reports
The Washington Post is reporting that PBS edited out controversial remarks made by Tina Fey (left) during her acceptance speech for the Kennedy Center’s ...NTIA sets mid-2013 to begin spectrum reallocation
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recommended today (Nov. 15) that 115 MHz of spectrum be reallocated for wireless broadband service ...Former APTS president Lawson to head up Mobile500 Alliance
John Lawson, former president of the Association of Public Television Stations, is the new executive director of the Mobile500 Alliance, the group ...Drool on camera first, retire later
Jim Lehrer, the well-anchored anchor of PBS NewsHour, told the Dallas Morning News that he’ll have to “start drooling on the air” before he’ll retire. Being ...NewsWorks from WHYY finds a fan in run-up to launch
Here’s early praise for WHYY’s NewsWorks from J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University. “I love the whole idea of ...Mitchell will head NFCB AfAm Radio services
Doug Mitchell, the news producer who staffed NPR’s Next Generation Radio internship and training programs for years, will be project manager for ...NPR retains outside firm to lead review of Williams dismissal
After the mediasphere firestorm and political attack over last month’s firing of news analyst Juan Williams, critics of the controversial decision by ...NPR finally “useful” to conservatives, columnist writes
In his column today (Nov. 11), Washington Post columnist George Will says that “NPR’s self-immolation” in firing Juan Williams for his public comments on ...Obama’s deficit commissioners advise ending all CPB, PTFP support by 2015
The co-chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, created by President Obama in February to help balance the budget, ...
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