Quick Takes
Blogosphere blow-out preventer backfires on Ifill
As blogosphere spats go, this one is rather perplexing. Washington Week in Review‘s Gwen Ifill doesn’t name the “journalism professor from New ...Cooney, Fanning honored in Austin
Children’s television pioneer and Sesame Street creator Joan Ganz Cooney is the recipient of this year’s Be More Award from PBS. She accepted her ...Study of 21 pubTV stations shows median of 57 underwriters
A 7 a.m. session with an overflow crowd? The results of the 2010 Local Underwriting Category Study lured folks in, coffee in ...APTS board forms CEO search committee
The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) Board of Trustees has formed a CEO search committee to fill its top spot, vacated ...PBS.org plans for online national fundraising heats up session in Austin
In a sometimes acrimonious session at the PBS national meeting in Austin, station reps and PBS execs faced off over the controversial ...Scholarship and studio named in honor of Smiley’s producer, Sheryl Flowers
Tavis Smiley and Clark Atlanta University have donated $25,000 each to establish the Sheryl Flowers Scholarship at the university. Flowers, a Clark ...New standard proposed for mapping impactful public media: Zing!
How do you define success for a media project that reaches beyond broadcast and tries to engage audiences Web 2.0-style? In an ...APM reassigns American RadioWorks doc unit
American Public Media is cutting production of American RadioWorks, the investigative documentary series that won a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton in January. MinnPost’s ...Edwardson dies; helped create Florida’s WUFT-FM
Mickie Edwardson, who helped found University of Florida’s pubradio WUFT-FM in 1981, died May 15 at age 80 following complications from an ...Kerger opens Austin meeting with vision for pubmedia, and tale of Hippie Jack
Tiny WCTE, Upper Cumberland Public TV in Cookeville, Tenn., got a shout-out from PBS President Paula Kerger in her opening remarks at ...Detroit PubTV’s Hamilton moves to Michigan day school
Detroit Public Television senior development veep Kelley Hamilton is moving to the University Liggett School, an independent day school in Grosse Pointe ...PTPA meeting under way in Austin
Pubcasters are streaming into Austin for the big PBS Showcase/Development Extravaganza/Annual Meeting/Networking-a-palooza. First up, PTPA meeting. A Twitter Critter from the latest ...WHYY opening $12 million Public Media Commons
A $12 million capital improvement project is nearly complete at dual-licensee WHYY in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Inquirer says. The Dorrance H. Hamilton Public Media ...WWOZ mounts Gulf Aid concert
WWOZ in New Orleans will broadcast live on May 16 from Gulf Aid, a benefit concert to provide financial relief to Gulf ...
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