Quick Takes
NPR, Frontline receive Online Journalism Awards
NPR and Frontline scored honors at the Online Journalism Awards Oct. 29 in Washington, D.C. The Gannett Foundation Award for innovative investigative journalism, ...Public Insight Network partners with three investigative entities
The Public Insight Network is expanding with new partners ProPublica, the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Center for Public Integrity, it ...PBSKids.org hits No. 1 children’s site for videos viewed
For the first time, PBSKids.org is the top-ranked children’s site for number of videos viewed, according to comScore Video Metrix (September 2010). ...Kerger speaks out on KCET negotiations, system reactions
TVNewsCheck‘s Contributing Editor P.J. Bednarski spoke at length with PBS President Paula Kerger last week about KCET’s decision to drop its PBS membership ...Does the future hold a digital-age Corporation for Public Media?
Check out “An open letter to the FCC about a media policy for the digital age,” by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve ...KQED now on Google TV, too
San Francisco’s KQED is the first pubTV affiliate, as well as first local TV station, to be featured on the new Google ...KET gets “green” loan for network center updates
Kentucky Educational Television’s network center in Lexington has received a loan of nearly $2 million from the Green Bank of Kentucky program, ...Bon AppeTweet!
Take an evening of local and national food programs, encourage viewers to interact via Twitter and what do you get? Bon AppeTweet. ...Pubstation, Miami Herald partner to request poems about LeBron James. Really.
Southern Florida dual-licensee WLRN and the Miami Herald are going where no media has gone before: They’re sponsoring a LeBron James poetry ...World Series intro before first inning by “Tenth Inning” filmmaker Burns
Keep an ear open during tonight’s (Oct. 27) Game 1 of baseball’s World Series. Word is the opening segment was written by Tenth Inning ...WQED announces new CFO
WQED in Pittsburgh has named a member of its Board of Directors as vice president and chief financial officer, effective Nov. 3, ...Nature scores first-ever American top award from Wildscreen Festival
Here’s a unique award for an icon series. Nature has won the prestigious Christopher Parsons Outstanding Achievement Award presented at the 2010 Wildscreen ...Pledge now, or it’s Scott Simon in a traffic ‘copter
Actor Alec Baldwin is helping out public radio this pledge season with his own, um, “promos.” Titles on the spots include “Ira ...Upcoming Virginia budget may zero out public radio, governor says
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday (Oct. 26) his next state budget might eliminate support for public radio in the state, according ...APTS, NPR, PBS join in petition asking FCC to extend CAP regulation deadline
Forty-six broadcast and cable associations, including APTS, NPR and PBS, petitioned the FCC last week (Oct. 21) to extend the deadline to ...
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