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PBS and NPR plan barcamp in D.C.; CPB seeks logistics help
CPB has issued a request for proposals for vendors to help with training of participants and logistical work for a planned pubmedia ...Staking a claim for NPR.org as a “news destination”
“We are a news content organization, not just a radio organization,” says NPR President Vivian Schiller, in this New York Times piece ...Roadshow combs through unclaimed jewelry in Denver
Antiques Roadshow embarked on a first-ever effort for the show in Denver last Saturday: Appraisers examined pieces of government-held unclaimed jewelry. The ...Bernanke candid at NewsHour town hall meeting
Ben Bernanke is in the news with remarks made during a NewsHour town meeting. During the discussion in Kansas City, Mo., the ...Alaska stations may be merging
For several months Alaska’s pubcasters have been working with Livingston Associates, a public media strategic planning firm, on the possibility of merging ...Cap Hill hearing set for CPB Board nominee Cahill
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee has scheduled Patricia Cahill’s nomination hearing for the CPB Board for 2:30 p.m. July 29. If approved, ...WNET offers nonprofits the WordPress variant used to redo “50 sites in 10 months”
New York’s WNET.org and a Brooklyn company Tierra Innovation Inc. announced this week they’re making available to other nonprofits a content ...WGBH needs further cuts, layoffs to close $6.9 million FY 2010 budget gap
WGBH will have a smaller production volume for fiscal 2010, President and CEO Jon Abbott told staffers in a letter yesterday. Which ...Cross-platform kids’ content vital, Sesame Workshop head tells Senate committee
Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell joined other broadcast industry insiders testifying before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ...XpoNential musical fun from WXPN
Philadelphia’s WXPN kicks off its three-day XPoNential Music Festival this afternoon, bringing a lineup of musical acts in the Triple A vein ...Henson Co. wins Engineering Emmy
The Jim Henson Co.’s Henson Digital Puppetry Studio has received an Engineering Emmy Award for its system used in the PBS Kids ...“Mister Rogers” goes to weekly schedule
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood will only be available one episode per week beginning this fall, PBS has informed member stations. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Kevin Morrison, ...NewsHour a partner in project cited by Knight-Batten
A project highlighting the quite different economic fates of various U.S. communities, developed by the NewsHour and the Christian Science Monitor, was cited ...Consultant fees questioned as U-Fla. stations gird for layoffs
“People who do what I do get paid a lot more than that,” says Mike Harding, a media consultant who is earning ...Scott Simon on the new NPR.org: “This even I know is a big improvement”
NPR unveils the “brand new NPR.org” in this YouTube video featuring Scott Simon’s first test-drive of the website launching July 27. ...
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