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New York Times journalist selected to head Upper Midwest Local Journalism Center
New York Times senior business correspondent Micheline Maynard will oversee the Upper Midwest Local Journalism Center, one of seven around the country funded by ...Skoler to lead interactive media at PRI
Public radio news veteran Michael Skoler will join Public Radio International as v.p. of interactive media on June 1. Skoler, founding director ...Images capture emotion of LZ Lambeau
Click here for Current’s slideshow of LZ Lambeau photographs, shot by Senior Editor Dru Sefton. More coverage of the Wisconsin Public Television outreach ...S.F. news project launches as Bay Citizen
The Bay Citizen, the online news start-up in which KQED was to have been a founding partner, launches today with a top ...LZ Lambeau outreach brings in more than 70,000 vets and supporters
Event organizers have announced the final count of visitors to LZ Lambeau, Wisconsin Public TV’s massive “welcome home” for Vietnam vets last ...Get your Tweet on at Wednesday webinar
Curious about Tweeting and the Monday Public Media Chats? Get up to speed Wednesday (May 26) at a Peer Webinar sponsored by ...APT appoints contracts manager
American Public Television’s new contracts manager is entertainment attorney John Taxiarchis, said APT President Cynthia Fenneman in a statement today (May 25). ...Now THAT is some goodbye
Gravity Medium blogger John Proffitt weighs in on the bridge-burning farewell letter from former WLIW/WNET producer Sam Toperoff, which is quite the ...Pubcaster’s book chronicles deaths of characters that never were
Ever read Mr. Ed’s obituary? How about the Flying Nun’s? Barry Nelson, WGBH’s director of on-air fundraising, has a new book out ...OMB cites $25 million to pubcasting as example of unnecessary spending
Millions of dollars in pubcasting funding through the Commerce Department and U.S. Department of Agriculture was cited Monday (May 24) as an ...Head of PBS engineering will oversee team on next-gen broadcast TV for ATSC
Jim Kutzner, PBS chief engineer, is chairing the next-generation broadcast TV team of the Advanced Television Systems Committee, Television Broadcast reports. It’s ...McCartney to receive Gershwin Prize at “In Performance at the White House” concert
The third Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song will go to Sir Paul McCartney at a special concert in the ...Louisiana’s KEDU launches urgent fundraising appeal
To meet its CPB grant requirements, KEDM in Monroe, La., has scheduled an emergency fundraising drive for June 2 -4. CPB ...Is pubcasting open enough to new media?
Pubcasting blogger John Proffitt today tackles “Closed vs. Open: Why Public Media Struggles With New Media.” The two types “are philosophically different, ...Lasar: Local CABs don’t necessarily represent the whole community
Matthew Lasar, a professor and media writer who authored a book on the history of Pacifica Radio, examines two of the “smaller ...
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