Adding conservative voices “appropriately diversified” the PBS lineup, the Houston Chronicle editorialized Nov. 19, but former CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson unnecessarily created a scandal ...
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November 21, 2005
The CPB Board induced former President Robert Coonrod to extend his time in office by giving him a four-year consulting contract worth ...
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November 21, 2005
NPR’s Bill Marimow discusses his network’s growing commitment to investigative journalism in an Editor and Publisher report.
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November 17, 2005
“…Watch Pat, she is slick as grease lightning.” That was former CPB Board Chair Kenneth Tomlinson on PBS President Pat Mitchell in ...
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November 17, 2005
Editorial writers for the Wall Street Journal come out swinging for former CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson in their account of the storied history of ...
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November 17, 2005
Congress restored nearly all cuts in pubcasting funding proposed for the present fiscal year, APTS reports. A House/Senate conference committee last night ...
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November 17, 2005
NPR is granting the unusual privilege of downloading an MP3 of one of its reports: “My Lobotomy,” a Sound Portraits Productions piece ...
Ken Tomlinson, then CPB chairman, proposed a “very generous” severance package to fire President Kathleen Cox, the organization’s inspector general reported Tuesday ...
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November 17, 2005
The Chicago Tribune looks at This American Life ten years after its debut. “It changed everything. Really,” says Torey Malatia, station manager of WBEZ.
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November 15, 2005
In a letter to the IG, a lawyer for former CPB President Kathleen Cox says Chairman Tomlinson told her she was “not ...
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November 15, 2005
CPB’s inspector general, Kenneth Konz, found evidence that former CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson violated the law and the CPB Board’s code of ...
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November 15, 2005
NPR’s This I Believe essays “solicited from prominent names sometimes seem bland or banal,” writes the Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher. “But the best of the essays ...
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November 14, 2005
Managers of pubradio stations reacted with surprise to the news that Blair Feulner, g.m. of KCPW/KPCW-FM in Park City, Utah, makes $150,000 ...
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November 14, 2005
Connecticut’s attorney general says he will sue the former president of a college radio station for misusing station funds, reports the (New ...
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November 14, 2005
Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Ore., cancelled a local show after determining that the host had committed plagiarism, reports the Mail Tribune. The host ...