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Pew surveys find increased perceived believability rankings for NPR News
NPR is one of few national broadcast news organizations to see its “believability” ratings increase last year in survey research by the ...NOW on PBS $1 million in red, announces eight-week furloughs
NOW on PBS is $1 million short for 2009 and has announced all employees will take unpaid, eight-week furloughs this year. John ...Mountain Lake PBS faces 28 percent state funding plunge
Mountain Lake PBS, located at 1 Sesame Street in Plattsburgh, N.Y., is facing a 28 percent loss in its budget if the ...BBC World Service producing daily segment for WBUR’s Here & Now
Producers of Here and Now have forged a new content partnership with the BBC World Service. Beginning today, the BBC will contribute ...John Williams scores new theme for “Great Performances”
Five-time Academy Award winner John Williams’s new theme music for Great Performances will debut March 25 on its production of King Lear. ...Pew journalism project issues sixth annual report on State of the News Media
“The problem facing American journalism is not fundamentally an audience problem or a credibility problem,” according to The State of the News ...Media creators ponder their “Ethics, Money and Mission”
This year’s Making Your Media Matter conference, “Ethics, Money and Mission,” featured an appearance by George Stoney, an early advocate of public ...Arkansas stations 50 percent off fundraising projections
Fundraising is 50 percent off projections at the Arkansas Educational Television Network Foundation. Executive Director Allen Weatherly cited the recession and ...FCC issues rules for final stage of DTV transition
The FCC today announced station requirements for the last stage of the digital transition. Rules for stations that have not yet transitioned ...Spy story from ‘This American Life’ slated for movie screens
Variety reports that This American Life and Endgame Entertainment will produce a feature film based on the Arthur Phillips short story “Wenceslas ...Sesame severs 20 percent of staff; takes heat on “Good Night Show”
Sesame Workshop announced today that it is cutting 67 of 355 positions, citing “the unprecedented challenges of today’s economic environment.” Also today, ...G4 requests OMB meeting for $307 million FY2010 pubcasting supplemental
CPB, APTS, PBS and NPR on March 6 jointly submitted a letter to Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management ...Saberi’s parents report recent phone call
The parents of Roxana Saberi, the freelance journalist detained without charge by the Iranian government, received a phone call from their daughter ...MPR request for state aid tops $1.3 million
Advocates for Minnesota Public Radio appeared at the state Capitol in St. Paul yesterday to make the case for funding requests pending ...Cookie Monster hits CapHill
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack yesterday told The Washington Times that Cookie Monster was always his favorite Sesame Street character, and that beets ...
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