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USA Today exec to lead NPR Digital team
NPR has hired a new digital media chief: Kinsey Wilson, executive editor of USA Today and usatoday.com since 2005. He joins NPR ...New Brideshead star completes Masterpiece hosting trio
Young British actor Matthew Goode, who starred as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold’s recent Brideshead Revisited movie in theaters, starts Oct. 5 as host ...Sawaya leaves Pacifica, publishes regretful critique
Explaining that she “was continually thwarted to do the job I was hired to do,” Nicole Sawaya announced yesterday that she had ...PTFP lays out millions more for DTV conversion
Five months before all TV broadcasting goes digital, Public Telecommunications Facilities Program is still spending $9 million of its $19 million grant ...CPB, AIR seek indie nominees for multimedia projects
CPB and the Association of Independents in Radio announced today a $400,000 grant program to encourage independent producers to try bold projects ...KPFT still off the air
Houston’s KPFT, a Pacifica station, has been off the air since sustaining damage from Hurricane Ike. In an update Chief Engineer Steve ...PRPD announces ACE award winners
Todd Mundt shares the list of winners of the Public Radio Program Directors’ Awards for Creative Excellence, announced today at the PRPD ...NYT: Too much of Hinojosa on “Now”
The New York Times’s Neil Genzlinger takes umbrage at Maria Hinojosa’s performance on an installment of PBS’s Now that focuses on the role of women ...Classical deejay works a ballpark
Like a modern-day presidential candidate, WETA-FM classical deejay Nicole Lacroix spoke in a vast stadium Sept. 13, though the crowd had not ...CPB Board nominees survive hearing unscarred
Three new nominees for CPB Board seats plus two nominated for reappointment came down decisively in favor of public broadcasting during a ...WOSU’s roomie is an aggie
ABN Radio, the largest farm radio network in Ohio, will relocate its headquarters to Ohio State University, where it will share a ...St. Paul drops changes against arrested journalists
Charges against Amy Goodman, two producers of her program Democracy Now! and other journalists arrested by St. Paul police during the Republican National Convention ...Sid the Science Kid: boring for parents?
“Sid the Science Kid is a great show for teaching science to little kids, but not so great for the adults watching ...NPR reportedly okays CBS-TV pilot based on Wait Wait
NPR has agreed to let CBS Entertainment make a pilot for a TV show based on Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, according Media ...Goodman tells story of her arrest
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman writes of her arrest this week at the Republican National Convention: “Behind all the patriotic hyperbole that accompanies the ...
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