Quick Takes
Webinars tomorrow and March 25 on innovation grants
CPB’s Public Media Innovation (PMI) Fund is offering risk-capital grants of $5,000 to $50,000 for innovative projects that foster the understanding of ...News organizations issue joint appeal on behalf of journalist detained in Iran
Top execs from seven news organizations, including NPR and PBS, are appealing to international human rights groups to verify the health and ...Where is Farai? Guest hosting on the Takeaway
After a January exit from the soon to be canceled NPR series News & Notes, Farai Chideya is guest hosting The Takeaway ...CPB hires Lightpath evangelist to promote diversity, innovation
Joaquín Alvarado, advocate for the National Public Lightpath fiber optic network for public media, will join CPB June 30 as senior v.p. ...GM drops funding for Ken Burns, citing “financial crisis”
General Motors is ending its long financial support of public broadcasting documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, due to the automaker’s dire business outlook. ...Mixed news from New England stations
An update on three New England pubcasters via The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass.: WAMC in Albany, N.Y., has cut staff by ...Pubcasters write in Washington Post’s Outlook
Two NPR staffers contribute to today’s Washington Post Outlook section. Steve Inskeep writes about his travels through Iran. He reports that “some of the ...In case you missed it …
NPR head Vivian Schiller spoke to Bob Garfield for On the Media this week. The transcript will be available March 9. Listen to the ...Sesame partnering with WIC nutrition program
Sesame Workshop next week will announce a collaboration with the federal Women, Infants and Children Nutrition program, reports Packer.com, the business newspaper ...Western Reserve reduces by 10 percent both salaries and hours
Western Reserve Public Media in Kent, Ohio, has made cuts due to a downturn in state, federal and private funding. The station ...NPR featured in social media podcast
Andy Carvin, NPR’s social-media chief, talks about the network’s strategy for connecting with its audience in a new podcast interview featured on The ...Mark Seifert to NTIA
Former FCCer Mark Seifert will head the policy side of the NTIA’s allocation of broadband stimulus grant and loan funding. Seifert ...Station gets state funds for tower removal
Ruby Calvert, g.m. of Wyoming PBS, reports that the station has secured $75,000 from the state to remove its tower and analog ...Sprout releases iPhone apps for the wee
Cable channel PBS Sprout, a joint venture of PBS, Sesame Workshop, Hit Entertainment and Comcast begun in 2005, has released two iPhone apps ...APTS asks FCC to allow early DTV transitions
In a filing to the FCC, the Association for Public Television Stations is asking that pubTV stations wishing to do so be ...
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