Quick Takes
Houston reinstates popular political show
Red, White and Blue, a Houston political pubTV show, is back on the air at KUHT after a months-long controversy. The show, one of ...“The last thing I’d do . . . is write off pubradio”
Audience engagement is the buzz word for Web 2.0 media and Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America describes his approach ...NPR technicians’ union to vote on proposed contract
NPR management and representatives of its technicians’ union yesterday reached tentative agreement on a one-year contract that will furlough employees for up ...AFI seeks Digital Content Lab volunteer mentors
The American Film Institute is seeking media pros to volunteer as mentors for project developers in its annual AFI Digital Content Lab. ...Wisconsin doc gets in middle of cat fight
Madison, Wisc., filmmaker Andy Beversdorf has received death threats over his latest doc, “Here Kitty, Kitty,” airing Saturday on Wisconsin Public Television. ...CPB hires digital v.p. (batteries included)
CPB added new-media and public-interest experience yesterday, announcing the hiring of Robert Bole, v.p. of digital media strategy and investments, formerly v.p. ...The Wisconsin network and Now on PBS won Cronkite Awards
Wisconsin Public Television and the national series Now on PBS received two of this year’s 10 Walter Cronkite Awards for political reporting ...More on Al Jazeera, Worldfocus and Fox
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler’s new column tackles the recent Fox News report on the use of Al Jazeera English television reporting on ...Jesse Thorn on the future of pubradio, and his place in it
“My situation is that if I had to choose between losing my stations and losing my direct podcast fundraising, I’d pick the ...Pubaccess stations run job-hunter videos
Unemployed folks in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire are producing and appearing in The New England Job Show on 26 public access ...Bert and Ernie go human
An upcoming theatrical production will be the first time longtime Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie will be portrayed by humans instead ...Pacifica hits six decades
Pacifica Radio went on the air 60 years ago today at KPFA in Berkeley. Founder Lewis Hill had been working toward that ...Harvard fellow sees pubcasting as roots of new public media
“Public broadcasters need to get over themselves, [they’re] as bad or even worse than many of the print journalists about the high-priesthood ...Ten Webby Award nominations for pubcasters
NPR leads public broadcasters in nominations announced this morning for the 13th annual Webby Awards, the international competition for “Best of the ...Pubcasting Peeple rejoice: WETA staffer wins diorama contest
Melissa Harvey, a graphic designer for WETA, has triumphed in The Washington Post’s annual Peeps diorama contest. Her entry, “NightPeeps,” placed marshmallow Peeps bunnies ...
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