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Less than half of laid-off staff work on canceled shows
Neither Day to Day nor News & Notes were attracting large enough audiences or underwriting revenues to stay on the air given ...Job and spending cuts extend across NPR
NPR is eliminating 64 jobs to address a projected budget deficit of $23 million and confirming that Day to Day and ...NPR said to be shutting down two shows
Staff members of NPR’s Day to Day and News and Notes, based at the network’s western production center in Culver City, Calif., ...CPBer to the UN?
Cheryl Halpern, CPB board member and former chair, has been nominated by President George Bush to be an alternate United Nations representative, ...Budget woes force cuts at WVIA
Five positions have been eliminated and several programs halted at Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television Association due to an expected $200,000 funding shortfall, ...Civil liberties group challenges NPR, DHS on E-Verify credits
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington-based civil liberties group, filed a Freedom of Information Act request [PDF] with the Department of ...Eby: He’ll be new g.m. in St. Louis
Filling the vacancy left by the departure of Patty Wente, KWMU-FM in St. Louis has hired Tim Eby, g.m. of WOSU-FM in ...Want a pubmedia stocking stuffer?
Reclaim the Media, a Seattle-based nonprofit “dedicated to pursuing a more just society by transforming our media system and expanding the communications ...Chicago Public Radio cuts 11 staffers
Chicago Public Radio laid off 11 full-time employees today — 9 percent of its workforce, according to the station. “Although we continue ...Lehrer on podcasting, The Takeaway and more
Brian Lehrer, host of an eponymous weekday talk show on New York’s WNYC, fielded a variety of questions this week from readers ...Rowland: Create trust fund for pubcasting’s political coverage
Public broadcasters should receive proceeds from a tax on campaign ad spending to support their political coverage, argues Wick Rowland, president of ...PBS Hawaii plans move to new home
PBS Hawaii plans to buy the soon-to-be-vacated headquarters of Honolulu’s NBC affiliate and move into the studios within the next few years, ...CPB, PBS to evaluate Challenge Fund
CPB has released its FY 2009 Business Plan, which details use of discretionary funds. Up for evaluation is the Challenge Fund, a ...Kerger fancies newsgathering partnership with NPR
PBS President Paula Kerger says the network is “thinking very carefully about what role we will play in news coverage moving forward,” ...Kermit Boston, KQED and APTS leader, dies in San Francisco
Kermit H. Boston, a longtime lay leader in public TV, died Nov. 23, the San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday. Boston, 73, suffered ...
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