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Funding credits for E-Verify prompt complaints
Underwriting credits for the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify program, an electronic database that allows companies to verify employment eligibility of new ...Public Radio Tuner 2.0 gets a thumbs down
The Public Radio Tuner is now being offered to iPhone users, but this blogger is less than impressed with the application. “Seriously, ...NPR newsmags seen as engines for future growth in pubradio news audience
The latest analysis from public radio’s Grow the Audience project identifies a “short list” of market factors that drive performance of individual ...25 years of Mountain Stage
On Sunday, West Virginia Public Radio’s Mountain Stage will celebrate its 25th anniversary with its 684th production, Joan Osborne, Kathy Mattea and a multilayer ...NPR’s Baghdad team targeted in car bomb attack
NPR’s Baghdad-based reporting team narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday. After conducting interviews and having lunch with their two Iraqi drivers ...Long night at the digital museum
Europeana, the continent’s online cultural library, attracted so much attention on its debut Nov. 20 — 10 million hits an hour, 3 ...Dance troupe makes NPR totally accessible
There have been facetious presentations of dancing on public radio, but none has been as visually compelling — or as facetious — ...Former KWMU g.m. settles with licensee
Patty Wente, the former g.m. of KWMU-FM in St. Louis, reached a settlement Nov. 13 with the station’s licensee, the University of ...Infinite Mind host took money from drug companies, records show
Records turned over to Congressional investigators have revealed that the host of public radio’s The Infinite Mind has accepted payments from drug makers while ...WNET.org to open new studio at Lincoln Center
Worldfocus and SundayArts, both new to the production slate at WNET.org, as the station’s licensee now calls itself, will be produced starting ...Cash-flow woes seen at 1 in 4 pubTV stations, CPB finds
More than a quarter of pubTV stations are having problems with liquidity and almost as many with debt burden, with “some stations ...Proposal floated to extend federal funding “beyond broadcast”
It no longer makes sense for the federal government to fund a corporation for public broadcasting, writes David Sasaki, outreach director of ...Linney new host of Masterpiece Classic
Laura Linney will be the new host of Masterpiece Classic, series e.p. Rebecca Eaton announced today in an online video release. Linney succeeds ...Mediavore blog aims to highlight best of public media
Kentucky’s Louisville Public Media has launched The Mediavore, a blog that points listeners to don’t-miss content offered throughout public media. In a ...Sesame Street, the overseas export
An Utne Reader article looks at the international reach of Sesame Street, using The World According to Sesame Street, a documentary, as a starting point. “Sesame Street has to reprove ...
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