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Ifill’s new book about politics and race on the shelf
NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill’s new book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, was published on Inauguration Day. Ifill, ...Detroit pubTV lays off 11
Detroit Public Television laid off 11 employees yesterday–about 16 percent of the station’s staff. Sister radio station WRCJ-FM laid off one employee. ...Ombudsmen respond to complaints of biased coverage of Gaza conflict
Pubcasting ombudsmen Alicia Shepard of NPR and Michael Getler of PBS have received hundreds of complaints about biased coverage of the Israeli ...Journalists! Free lunch today, thanks to Google, Yahoo and the Web
If you thought that media can adopt Web 2.0 commercialism without content- and news-distorting consequences parallel with those that operate so effectively ...Qualcomm vs. PBS
Qualcomm, looking to use analog channels for its MediaFLO mobile TV service after the digital transition, sent letters Jan. 19 to legislators ...A Libertarian’s view of CPB’s stimulus request
If the service pubcasting provided “was indeed so valuable that we, the American people, could not do without it,” writes libertarian blogger ...Torture doc starts airing
The doc Torturing Democracy is bubbling into the news again. AU media associate prof Rick Rockwell, writing on the blog iVory Towerz, says Maryland’s ...Rocky Mountain PBS hires new president
Rocky Mountain PBS in Pueblo, Colo., recently named Doug Price president, reports the Pueblo Chieftain. Price formerly served as president of FirstBank of Colorado ...June 12 may be the new Feb. 17
It’s been a week of uncertainty and lots of talk regarding the Feb. 17 DTV date, but now comes action. Sen. Jay ...Al Jazeera partners with Worldfocus
The Al Jazeera Network, which broadcasts news in Arabic and English, has signed on to provide daily content to WLIW’s Worldfocus. All Al ...Writers Guild backs pubcasting stimulus funds
Layoffs and budget woes in the pubcasting system have “negatively impacted the quality of news and public discourse in the country,” the ...Stimulus package: $650 million DTV, $6 billion broadband
A summary from the House Appropriations Committee of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009, a.k.a. the stimulus package, proposes $650 ...What you’re NOT missing at NETA
Hundreds of pubcasters at the NETA conference plus two elevator outages equals close quarters. With half of the four hotel lifts temporarily ...CPB reaches SoundExchange pact
SoundExchange and CPB finally have an agreement on Internet performance royalties to be paid to artists and copyright holders. The agreement sets ...FCC OKs analog nightlight
The FCC on Jan. 15 approved the analog nightlight program, which allows stations time after the DTV transition to keep analog signals ...
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