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Tomlinson to lose another broadcasting post?
A Senate panel is tabling President Bush’s re-nomination of former CPB chair Kenneth Tomlinson to the Broadcasting Board of Governors in the ...Will AIR help to rehab journalism’s image?
Journalism thinkers hope WNET’s “AIR: America’s Investigative Reports” gives “the profession a badly needed image boost,” reports the New York Times. The ...Web projects rethinking investigative journalism
Calling all citizen journalists: Jay Rosen, NYU journalism professor and media blogger, may have an assignment for you. His NewAssignment.net, an experimental ...Tomlinson responds to allegations
Kenneth Tomlinson responds to the report by State Department investigators on his activities as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors: “I ...Tomlinson accused of missteps in other federal gig
A State Department probe found that former CPB Chair Ken Tomlinson improperly gave a job to a friend in his continuing role ...Two different takes on “Waging a Living”
A study in contrasts: National Review Online and the New York Times review “Waging a Living,” Roger Weisberg’s P.O.V. film about the ...Update on pubTV’s digital rights working group
The task force charting a digital rights acquisition strategy for public TV posted a summary of its conclusions on the Affinity ...PBS pundit’s label revisited
After the flap about misleading on-screen identification of “conservative commentator” Karen Czarnecki, Ombudsman Michael Getler and his readers offer PBS and producers ...Spectrum auction nets close to $13.5 billion
The ongoing auction of reclaimed government spectrum for wireless services has shown the licenses to be even more valuable than some predicted, ...KOCE bill attacked as a “scandal”
A former California Republican party official sees an “Orange County scandal” in a state legislature bill favoring pubTV station KOCE, which would ...Fred Jacobs on public radio’s success
Consultant Fred Jacobs urges his audience of commercial radio execs to pay attention to public radio’s success: “How is Public Radio pulling ...Where TV beats print’s price
If you wanted some archival news, which would you buy? A video clip from ABC News @ $1.99 or an article from ...Mirren wins Emmy for HBO miniseries
Helen Mirren won a Primetime Emmy for her performance in Elizabeth I, an HBO/Channel 4 drama that also received the statuette for ...Lawsuit revives interest in Barney parodies
The New York Times reports on a lawsuit filed last week that seeks to protect the First Amendment right to publish online ...Critics don’t want ads on PBSKids.org
Some children’s and consumer advocates aren’t happy about PBS’s plan to add banner ads to PBSKids.org beginning Oct. 1, reports the Los ...
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