Quick Takes
Fueled by donuts, KRWGers meet their constituents in New Mexico
KRWG staffers were out early yesterday morning to chat with viewers and listeners, reports the Deming (N.M.) Headlight. “With coffee in one ...Pubmedia Working Group to assist Public Media Corps, WGBH’s World channel
The Public Media Working Group (PMWG) and American University’s Center for Social Media will focus on two “signature collaborative opportunities” for this ...New report seeks to develop nonprof news best practices
“Ethics for the New Investigative Newsroom” (PDF), a report with recommendations from a round-table meeting of leaders in nonprofit journalism, stresses that ...Map details cable access channel providers across America
The Alliance for Community Media, representing more than 3,000 PEG (public, educational and governmental) access organizations, helped compile a map ...Ted Garcia leaving TV post at CPB
Ted Garcia, CPB’s senior vice president, television content, is departing effective Saturday, according to a note to public broadcasting stations and an ...KWBU in Waco shutting down by June 1
Citing an impending $400,000 budget shortfall, PBS affiliate KWBU in Waco, Texas, is ending its broadcast at the end of May, according ...Talk trash at tomorrow’s Peer Webinar
The National Center for Media Engagement, along with ITVS and CPB, are offering a Peer Webinar tomorrow on resources and tools for ...CPB selects Tovares to head up Diversity and Innovation efforts
Joseph Tovares is the new senior vice president for Diversity and Innovation at CPB. Pat Harrison, CPB president, said in a statement ...FCC task force starting work on National Broadband Plan initiatives
The FCC is assembling a spectrum task force to coordinate long-term planning and implementation of recommendations in the National Broadband Plan, reports ...Pubradio’s newest classical stations setting records for listenership, fundraising
Since its conversion into a listener-supported public radio station last fall, New York’s classical WQXR has gained more than 127,000 listeners–enough to ...Upcoming FCC workshop to focus on noncom media
Public and noncom media is the focus of the next FCC “Future of Media” workshop Friday in Washington, D.C. Subjects include: Potential ...KUT is favored choice to revive campus music venue
The University of Texas is looking for a new entity to manage the Cactus Cafe, a campus music venue and bar, and ...Youth bring home RFK Journalism Awards for radio
Two of public radio’s youth media training units received 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for radio reporting. Youth Radio won in ...Virginia legislators vote to restore pubcasting funds
The Virginia General Assembly rejected a proposal to end subsidies for the state’s public television and radio stations. Republican Governor Bob McDonnell ...In shift to local newsgathering, Michigan Radio drops Environment Report
Michigan Radio will end national production of The Environment Report, a news service producing daily interstitial news spots, in June. Three staff ...
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