Quick Takes
KCTS seeks relationship with incoming neighbor, Gates Foundation
Today, Seattle’s Crosscut.com concludes its two-part story on KCTS and its CEO, Moss Bresnahan. He’s hoping the station can work together with ...Don’t forget about risk, Rob Bole advises
Pubcasting thought leader Rob Bole writes on his Public Purpose Media blog that public service media no longer has an innovation problem. ...Viewers get a season-kickoff Tweetfest with History Detectives team
History Detectives launches its eighth season Monday (June 21) with a live Tweetfest. Viewers get to chat with the show’s investigative team while watching ...Zeleznik facebox
PRNDI honored Cincinnati-area news director Maryanne Zeleznik with the Leo C. Lee Award for her three decades of work in public radio ...APTS taking on two bills that would cut out pubcasting support
The Association of Public Television Stations is lobbying against two congressional proposals to eliminate millions in pubcasting funding. Republican Colorado Rep. Doug ...More pubaffairs, fewer pledge drives for KCTS, CEO Bresnahan says
In the first of a two-part series today (June 17) on KCTS’s CEO Moss Bresnahan, the Crosscut news website delves into the ...WBUR and PRX pubcasters win Knight News Challenge awards
Pubcasters have been awarded two of 12 grants from the Knight News Challenge, which funds digital technology for innovative journalism efforts, the ...South Carolina ETV keeps state funding
Good news out of South Carolina. State lawmakers continue to debate their way through overriding Gov. Mark Sanford’s 107 budget amendments, but ...Filmmaker focusing on West Virginian National Guard returns from Iraq
West Virginia Public Broadcasting filmmaker Chip Hitchcock last week returned from Iraq, where he was embedded for nearly three weeks with a ...Public Interactive’s new Web publishing service to be built on Drupal
Public Interactive has chosen Drupal, the open source content management system, for the new web publishing system that is about to launch ...WNET settles federal probe of grant handling
WNET announced yesterday (June 15) that it reached a settlement of a dispute with the federal government over the station’s use ...New FCC paper supports proposed broadband spectrum policy and auction
Julius Knapp, the Federal Communication Commission’s deputy chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology, today announced in his blog the release of ...Schiller talks up collaborations at IRE conference
NPR President Vivian Schiller talked about the challenges and rewards of reporting collaborations during last weekend’s Investigative Reporters and Editors conference: “[A ...Ifill receives Fred Friendly First Amendment Award
Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., presented its 17th annual Fred Friendly First Amendment Award to Gwen Ifill of PBS’s Washington Week, during a luncheon ...Paper examines NJN’s Blumenthal and his private nonprof restructuring plan
New Jersey Network Interim Director Howard Blumenthal and his leadership of Philadelphia’s indie pubcaster MiND TV (WYBE) is the focus of a ...
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