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Administrative Assistant, WVTF Public Radio, Roanoke, VA
Job duties: Receptionist and Office Assistant. Answering phone calls, reconciliation of information and financial data, records management, scheduling, data collection, inventory, budget ...Statewide Fund Development Director, IPBS, Indianapolis, IN
IPBS, Indiana’s state association of public radio and TV broadcasters, seeks a dynamic Statewide Fund Development Director. Working from Indianapolis, this full-time ...Vice President, KERA, Dallas
North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc. (KERA), the Dallas/Fort Worth PBS and NPR affiliate, has an opening for a Vice President-Technology. Oversee design, ...WILL becomes Illinois Public Media
WILL in Urbana, Ill., is changing its name. Effective Monday it will be Illinois Public Media. The name WILL will refer to ...Problems proliferate with pubstation channel placement
Add Sarasota and Charlotte counties in Florida to the growing number of areas where pubTV channels are being moved onto digital tiers ...Girl’s screams on NPR piece prompt listener objections
NPR ombudsman Alicia C. Shepard writes in her latest column, “What makes NPR’s storytelling so powerful and compelling is the adroit use ...How about $2 billion for NewsHour?
Alex Jones wants one or more of the world’s richest people to establish a $2 billion endowment that would provide permanent funding ...Save WCAL group commits to appeal MPR’s legal victory
Four years after classical station WCAL left the air in the Twin Cities region, its fans have committed to raise the ...NPR cuts another 13 jobs
NPR announced today another 13 layoffs, part of cost-cutting measures to close an $8 million budget gap this fiscal year. Two were ...University will offer Flint station to another pubTV operator
The University of Michigan announced today it will close WFUM in Flint and expects to arrange for transfer of the channel to ...Unionized NPR employees ratify new contracts
NPR technicians represented by the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians have ratified a new contract with management. The votes, collected ...What good is journalism, anyway? Comments invited …
PBS is helping to collect public comments on the journalism’s iffy future for a blue-ribbon Knight Commission that compares itself to the ...Viewers continue their reaction to two PBS shows
PBS ombudsman Michael Getler’s latest column features additional letters from viewers regarding the use of Al Jazeera news reports on WorldFocus, as ...State cuts threaten to shutter two Pennsylvania pubTV stations
Proposed budget cuts in Pennsylvania are putting two stations in jeopardy of closing, according to testimony at a hearing Wednesday of the ...With 17 layoffs at WHYY, eyes turn to boss’s paycheck
Philadelphia’s WHYY-FM/TV laid off 17 employees or 8 percent of its staff Wednesday to help balance its budget for the upcoming fiscal ...
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