Quick Takes
Tonight’s Tweets: Impact measurement
The third PubMedia Chat will focus on impact measurement. The ongoing Twitterfests give practitioners and supporters of public media a way to ...BBC to announce several cutbacks, Times of London reports
An upcoming BBC strategic proposal signals “an end to the era of expansion” for the British broadcaster, reports the Times of London. ...LA Public Media mission: to create new multicultural audiences for public radio
Oscar Garza, senior assignment editor for the Los Angeles Public Media Service, is “one of those people who’s been around for a ...Founder of current WPSU-TV dies in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University journalism professor Marlowe Froke, who founded WPSX-TV (now WPSU-TV) in 1964 at the university, died Feb. 23 in State ...FCC chair says he wants to release 500 MHz of spectrum over 10 years
FCC Chair Julius Genachowski has revealed a specific number for the amount of spectrum the agency wants to see freed up: 500 ...South Dakota tribe contacts FCC regarding towers on sacred butte
A Native Tribe in Reliance, S.D., has asked the FCC to examine the location of a commercial broadcasting tower on Medicine Butte ...FTC news workshop includes “On the Media’s” Bob Garfield
The second round of two-day workshops convened by the Federal Trade Commission on the future of journalism are scheduled for March 9 ...New KCRW g.m. discusses future of station
In case you missed it yesterday: You can now download or stream the interview with Jennifer Ferro, new g.m. of KCRW-FM in ...North Carolina city ventures into spectrum white spaces
Wilmington, N.C., was the first community in America to discontinue analog broadcasting. Now it’s the first to test a municipal WiFi network ...This American Life tops list of best journalism in 2009
Writer Conor Friedersdorf of True/Slant compiled a list of the best journalism he encountered in 2009. This American Life, the only public ...PBS, your source for baseball talent
Now that baseball spring training is under way, eager fans are counting the hours until opening day. While spectators will be eating ...Youth Radio: media training without that “school-like feel”
“Peer teaching is at the heart of Youth Radio,” Jacinda Abcarian, executive director of the Oakland-based media program, tells San ...New three-part “Upstairs, Downstairs” coming next year
New episodes of the 1970s PBS hit Upstairs, Downstairs are coming to Masterpiece in 2011 as part of a co-production deal with ...Three Writers Guild Awards for PBS shows
PBS won three Writers Guild of America Awards on Saturday night, which honored outstanding achievement in television, radio, news, promotional writing and ...Ferro moves up to lead KCRW
Jennifer Ferro is the new g.m. of Los Angeles’ KCRW-FM, following her formal approval by the Santa Monica College Board of ...
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