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PBS brings onboard new corporate communications veep from AOL
Anne Bentley is joining PBS as vice president of corporate communications, the network announced today (July 21). Among other duties, she will ...MPB fires reporter for leaking Fresh Air memo
There’s one more voice that’s off the air of Mississippi Public Broadcasting following the state network’s cancellation of Fresh Air. Carl Gibson, whose ...NewsHour exec moves to president’s post at MacNeil Lehrer Productions
Simon Marks has been named president of MacNeil Lehrer Productions, according to a statement from the program. He’s currently associate executive producer ...Survey for CPB: Have some journalists working there?
CPB has ordered up a headcount of journalists working at both public TV and radio stations to serve as a baseline for ...NPR vies for coveted seat in White House briefing room
Former White House Correspondent Helen Thomas’s front-row seat in the press briefing room is up for grabs and NPR wants it. In ...Bill would give broadcasters some spectrum auction cash, set annual fees on existing use
Under legislation introduced Monday (July 19) in the Senate, broadcasters would share in the proceeds of a spectrum auction, according to TVNewsCheck. ...PBS’s Kerger to chair November International Emmy Awards
PBS President Paula Kerger is gala chair for this November’s International Emmy Awards Nov. 22 in New York City, reports WorldScreen.com. The ...UNC-TV reporter issues statement on Alcoa investigation controversy
The reporter behind the controversy over PBS affiliate UNC-TV releasing pre-broadcast footage and reporting docs to the North Carolina state legislature spoke ...Tribe donates $6 million to California affiliate for first 24-hour Native channel
KVCR-TV in San Bernardino, Calif., has received a $6 million donation from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to fund the ...Fans wait for hours to meet “Red Green” in West Virginia hardware store
“The Red Green Show” fans Kerry Comerford and his longtime partner, Brooke Parker, left their home Berkeley Springs, W.Va., for their ...Production U to teach high-schoolers TV content skills
Production U, a new two-week media camp for high-school students, kicks off Aug. 2 off at PBS 39 in Bethehem, Pa., reports ...Knight-Batten Awards for innovations in journalism
ProPublica, The Takeaway and Ushahidi Haiti, a crowdsourcing crisis map created in response to the massive earthquake in January, each received 2010 ...PEG channel conference shows move toward “community media centers”
An often-overlooked corner of the evolving pubmedia ecosystem hides PEG access (public access, educational, government) channels. But the recent conference of the ...Dayton-Cincinnati merger results in five full-time job cuts
Five staffers have been due to the ongoing merger between PBS affiliates CET in Cincinnati and ThinkTV in Dayton, Ohio, according to ...KQED expands local news for radio, Web audiences
San Francisco’s KQED is adding weekday newscasts to its FM station and as on-demand audio on its website, according to the San ...
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