CPB President Kathleen Cox hired a top FCC exec, Ken Ferree [his CPB bio], to fill her old job. The former Media ...
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March 16, 2005
From the recent meeting of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers: The writer for OC Weekly has seen too much of PBS star ...
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March 16, 2005
An American University project wants to develop best rights practices for producers. Profs. Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi found filmmakers frustrated and ...
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March 16, 2005
The recording industry aided preservation efforts by public TV’s Great Performances and public radio’s American Routes and Beale Street Caravan. The producers were among this year’s recipients of ...
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March 14, 2005
Christopher Lydon is returning to the radio with Open Source, a co-production with the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. PRI will distribute. Lydon hosted ...
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March 8, 2005
“[W]e could be much more effective if we would just get better at asking listeners to give based purely on value,” says ...
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March 8, 2005
Nearly half of distance-learning courses used by K-12 schools are given by college-level institutions, says a major U.S. Department of Education study ...
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March 8, 2005
A different pro-family lobby–this time the Family Pride Coalition of gay parents–is raising a ruckus, calling a “virtual rally” on Thursday, March ...
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March 8, 2005
“We think as a family it’s important to understand the world and all the people in it,” says a parent who turned ...
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March 7, 2005
“NPR does a pretty good job, but it seems to delight in its own culture more than is absolutely necessary,” said NPR ...
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March 7, 2005
“I don’t think anyone should ever get over the way this country was founded — on not just liberty but also the ...
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March 7, 2005
“[W]hat the classical fade-out tells us more than anything is that the ‘custodians of public taste’ have left the building, ” writes ...
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March 7, 2005
Public TV is the subject, not the medium, for a five-day seminar for journalists at UC Berkeley, May 1-6. The Western Knight ...
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March 6, 2005
Perhaps prompted by the Buster fuss or a slow news day, George F. Will joins a gathering pro-marketplace chorus on the right: ...
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March 3, 2005
Tod Maffin lays out his vision of “vertical listening,” which he also mentioned in our recent article about podcasting. Meanwhile, KCRW-FM launched ...