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Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture — Videos — Center for Social ...
The Center for Social Media has produced a 13-minute video about the Beyond Broadcast conference held at Harvard Law School in May. ...Staff reunion at WKNO, Memphis
Did you work at WKNO in Memphis? The pubTV station promises “great music, food and drinks” at its 50th anniversary staff reunion ...What’s not to like about Elmo?
Sesame Street is being destroyed by “idiot cuteness,” writes LA Times columnist Joel Stein. He blames “patronizing, baby-talking Elmo” and finds other adults who hate the ...Good morning, Vietnam — decades after he fled, a radio host is going home
Nguyen Qui Duc, host of public radio’s Pacific Time, is leaving the show Sept. 14 to return to Vietnam with his mother. “I had ...CPB Announces More Public Radio Stations to Receive Community Service Grant Funds in Fiscal Year ...
Eleven public radio stations will receive their first Community Service Grants from CPB in fiscal year 2007, thanks to newly expanded eligibility ...Viewers perceive sponsor influence in NewsHour report
Did the NewsHour soft-pedal its reporting on BP, the giant oil company and program sponsor that drew wide criticism last week after shutting ...News & Notes dying on the vine?
The St. Petersburg Times ponders the future of NPR’s News & Notes with Ed Gordon, which has lost 17 percent of the ...Radio Host Raymond Whitfield; Started Groups for Youth, Inmates
Another host who worked at WPFW-FM in Washington, D.C., has passed away — Raymond Whitfield, who died Aug. 2 at the age ...“Satellite Sisters,” graduates of pubradio, get recognition
The Dolan sisters’ Satellite Sisters, which began as a national pubradio show produced by WNYC, has been nominated as a finalist for Network Syndicated ...Dorothy Ray Healey, 91; ‘The Red Queen’ Was Leader in American Communist Party
Dorothy Ray Healey, a longtime Communist activist and Pacifica Radio host, died Aug. 6 at the age of 91, reports the Washington Post.NPR host proves what falls down can pop back up
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer profiles NPR’s Luke Burbank, a 30-year-old National Desk reporter and fill-in host for Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! When Burbank ...Reynolds named president of Public Radio Partnership
Donovan Reynolds was named president of the Public Radio Partnership in Louisville, Ky., effective Sept. 6. Reynolds resigned as director of Michigan ...Station Resource Group retreat
The Station Resource Group held its annual planning retreat this week. SRG’s website features a few documents related to the event, including ...Chicago Public Radio’s big experiment
Chicago’s Time Out previews the new FM service in development at Chicago Public Radio, which will aim to appeal to a younger, more diverse ...
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