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Knight-sponsored courtroom project considers transparency vs. privacy
WBUR’s Order in the Court 2.0, winner of a $250,000 Knight News Challenge grant, is working to set best practices for effective ...PBS viewers continue cleavage debate
The Great Sesame Street Katy Perry Cleavage Kerfuffle continues, with Team Perry taking the lead. PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler said that after ...Pacific Islanders’ “One Voice” takes to the skies
A 15-minute segment of One Voice, the latest doc from Minority Consortia group Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC), is soaring high over the Pacific ...After three extensions, Peconic meets deadline with cash to buy WLIU’s independence
With the help of $300,000 from two major donors and a bank loan of up to $337,000, WLIU-FM management is now prepared ...State broadcasting group takes precautions for Vegas PBS live campaign debate
Vegas PBS will produce the only live televised debate in the extremely contentious race between U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and GOP challenger ...NewsHour announces new science unit under former CNNer Miles O’Brien
PBS NewsHour isn’t resting on its recent Emmy laurels. It’s hired former CNN reporter Miles O’Brien to head a new science unit, reports the ...Ten Indian stations among 31 signal expansion projects aided by NTIA
Thirty-one projects got matching Public Telecommunications Facilities Program grants to bring first public radio or TV service to a total of 500,000 ...Harvard professor who helped develop Sesame Workshop model dies at 84
Former Harvard professor and chairman of the Children’s Television Workshop’s board of advisors, Gerald Lesser, died Sept. 23, according to the Harvard Crimson. He ...Independent Filmmaker confab session definitely not “butt-clenchingly boring”
POV Series Producer Yance Ford moderated last week’s (Sept. 19-23) Independent Filmmaker Conference panel with the intriguing title, “Cage Match: ...Former NPR voice Ketzel Levine goes to the dogs
When NPR correspondent Ketzel Levine was laid off in 2008 after 30 years with the network, “the shock left me numb,” she ...PBS takes third place in News and Documentary Emmy Awards
In what the Hollywood Reporter is calling “an upset,” both CBS and NBC beat out PBS, the usual top winner, for most News and ...“Smiley & West” partners up pubcaster and Harvard professor
Public broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West are co-hosting the new radio show Smiley & West, premiering Oct. 1. The program was ...Imagine all the people!
The American Masters presentation of “LENNONYC” will have a free screening on Oct. 9, which would have been Lennon’s 70th birthday, in New York ...Public media for young Angelenos: it’s more than news
“For our target audience, entertainment is the gateway drug to news,” said Nicole Childers of L.A. Public Media (LAPM) when she unveiled ...Here’s a map to the public media network universe, without all those annoying folds
Do you feel caught in the kudzu of the public media 2.0 ecosystem as entities network and proliferate? Check out “A Guide ...
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