Quick Takes
PBS responds to criticism over Schultz bio “Turmoil and Triumph”
Several hundred e-mails landed in PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler’s in-box regarding the three-part doc “Turmoil and Triumph: The George Schultz Years,” running ...Jesse Thorn bans himself on principle
Jesse Thorn, host and creator of The Sound of Young America, speaks up for humor on public radio by announcing that Mississippi ...Alcoa files request for docs from UNC-TV
Citing North Carolina’s Open Records laws, Alcoa Aluminum Inc. wants UNC-TV — licensed to the University of North Carolina — to turn ...“Tenth Inning” debuts today at Dartmouth
Documentarian and baseball fan Ken Burns will premiere his latest film, “The Tenth Inning,” today (July 16) at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center ...MPB listeners, blogosphere want to know: What’s inappropriate about ‘Fresh Air’?
Why did Mississippi Public Broadcasting drop Fresh Air from its radio schedule? The blog “A Unitarian Universalist Minister in the South” set ...PBS once again tops News and Documentary Emmy nominations
The Los Angeles Times said that PBS “flexed its usual strength” when the News and Documentary Emmy nods were announced today (July 15) and ...Online nonprofit donations are up
Online donations to nonprofs are up 23 percent this March, April and May over the same time last year, the Chronicle of ...National Press Club Awards for pubcasters
NPR’s David Folkenflik, State of the Re:Union creator Al Letson, and PBS’s Frontline are public broadcasting’s winners in this year’s National Press ...“Prison Valley” documentary starts on innovative website
A unique nonfiction film that its producers call “a road movie on the web” is getting attention within the indie production world, ...FCC spectrum inventory now under way
An inventory of “existing spectrum allocation, assignment and utilization” is already under way, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a ...BBC ramps up online news service for American audiences
BBC Worldwide is about to launch a news website for American audiences, BBC.com, according to Advertising Age. The site, produced by a ...Noncom and com media should join for international service, author says
America needs one news service to broadcast internationally, drawing on the strengths of both public and commercial media, writes Lee Bollinger, president ...WNET online game brings Revolutionary Boston to teens
WNET/Thirteen will launch on Sept. 21 “Mission U.S.,” the first in a series of educational online games targeting “teens and tweens” nationwide, ...McCartney disses President Bush during taping of “In Performance” concert
The Washington Post‘s Reliable Sources columnists are reporting that a cutting remark rocker Paul McCartney made during the taping of a PBS ...Former CPB president joins InterMedia
Robert Coonrod, CPB president from 1997 to 2004, has been chosen CEO of media and communications company InterMedia, the firm said in ...
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